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Sang

Member since: Jan 6th, 2008

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Mother of 'Genderless' Baby Storm Speaks Out (ParentDish)

May 31st 2011 12:58PM You're born with a *sex*. *Gender* is the social identity you fit into.

McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi starting in January (WalletPop)

Dec 17th 2009 3:34AM That is the biggest bunch of hooey I've ever heard. As someone who's worked in McDonald's for years, I have never heard something so far off the mark.

I *do* know that there are some people who work behind the cash register at McDonald's and many other places who are too lazy to do their job and think the customer is a bother or there to help the employee. It is a *service* industry, nana7, and that means the *cashier* serves the *customer*. You have a tray full of bills, pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters to give change to the customer. You have a "cancel" button on the register for changing orders. It's people like you who give the service industry a bad name. Go work in a factory somewhere if you're not the type of person to cheerfully help people and work to make their visit to your store a pleasant one!

Is Facebook Destroying Kids' Brains? (Switched)

Feb 25th 2009 12:14AM *Addiction* is a serious, physiological disease. Far too many people throw that word around (like the word Nazi) falsely and disseminate the true meaning. No one in the world is "addicted" to Facebook, computers, video games, television, etc.

If we were to take your words to heart, everyone who knows anything about "technology" is either "pushing" it because they'll make a profit from it or "addicted" (your word) and defending it. Which would logically conclude to the only people being "against" it are those who haven't tried it and don't know what they're talking about.

Why must people be so alarmist about things? Why is everything such a doomsday proposition? It is Facebook, for crying out loud-not poison Kool-Aid!

Is Facebook Destroying Kids' Brains? (Switched)

Feb 24th 2009 11:27PM Hmmm... so now it is boorish or rude for a gal to come to her own defense? Gee, the societal niceties must be different in your part of the world than they are in mine. I don't see anywhere in the posting suggestions/rules that say you must spell correctly or don't post (hard to do 100% without spellcheck at any rate), but oddly enough, there *is* something in there about keeping your comments relevant to the blog entry... Yet the blog entry is nothing about spelling...

Keeping to the subject: It is sad that so many are so afraid of new technology and things they don't understand. Instead of taking the time to learn, understand and come to their own opinion, they grab onto someone they can label "expert" and hang their entire opinion on that person's judgment. Complete lack of thought process-THAT is what is at the heart of many problems in the USA. People just don't want to take the time and effort to think for themselves. Not just sad, but pretty darn scary.

Is Facebook Destroying Kids' Brains? (Switched)

Feb 24th 2009 10:12PM Oh, my, Alanna. I'm so sorry-I didn't realize I was posting in a "spelling police" area. No comment on the story whatsoever, just pointing out someone else's errors. Hope it made you feel good about yourself. Maybe *you've* been spending too much time on Facebook, and the typos and spelling errors have become your main source of self esteem, rather than actually communicating with people and sharing thoughts and ideas. Gee, maybe the story *is* right... (note the sarcasm with which the last sentence was said)

Is Facebook Destroying Kids' Brains? (Switched)

Feb 24th 2009 8:30PM Rediculous. Utterly rediculous.

Mom presses charges after 12-year-old son crashes van (ParentDish)

Aug 30th 2008 9:39PM Why does ParentDish do this?? For some reason, it posts my name as "Sang" on my second reply... The previous post about "black and white" was by DE.

Mom presses charges after 12-year-old son crashes van (ParentDish)

Aug 30th 2008 9:36PM For Pete's sake, I didn't say he thought it was *right*!

There's such a thing as a "lesser of two evils", seeing things in something other than "black and white". For a 12 year old boy who's on the verge of puberty, likely has testosterone surging through his body, in the presence of an older teen (who was likely egging him on in the way guys do), there was a choice: look like a looser weakling dork in front of his older friend *or* prove he was "manly". Neither one is a stellar choice, but in that time and place, apparently to him, the borrowing of the van was the lesser of 2 evils.

I reiterate: he did *not* kill or hurt anyone, so it's pointless to dwell on that. Any one of us could accidentally hurt, maim or kill anyone in any moment of misjudgement in our lives. That point is moot.

Obviously he *could* drive-he drove it from his driveway to another house! He wasn't an experienced driver, or the best of drivers, but he did, technically drive.

If he had a good relationship with his mom, he could have gone to her and they could have worked out a way that he could be safe and still prove he could drive (go carts? tractors? who knows), but apparently, his mother would rather punish him and make him feel like a criminal than help him to grow up strong, wise and healthy.

Again, I ask why people feel like kids should have the judgment of an adult, who has gained that knowledge through experience and living life? They're just supposed to *know*, by magic?

Mom presses charges after 12-year-old son crashes van (ParentDish)

Aug 30th 2008 8:35PM Horrible. Where's this kid's support system if he can't count on his mom to gently explain to him what was wrong and why and tell him everyone makes mistakes? Is she so perfect that she never made a mistake? He *didn't* hurt or kill any one-he's a boy who's sense of judgement isn't fully developed yet.

Why do people in this country expect CHILDREN to have the brain, the capacity for understanding and the judgement of adults?! That's why we have parents and a childhood, so that we can learn these things before we're adults-under the *guidance* of our parents.

I know my kids consider the *family* car OURS-not mom's, but she lets us ride in it. They have their own seats, their own cupholders, are able to get in when they want. I can certainly see where this 12 year old boy would be stunned to think that his mother considered him using something of hers as STEALING. If my husband borrows my car without asking, I don't call the cops and have him arrested!!

Utterly rediculous-I agree with the previous poster that this can only lead him to feel that he's a horrible person and continue down poor choice paths because his mother doesn't have the heart to accept his *mistake* and forgive him. Understanding someone's mistake does not mean that what you did was "fine" and you should do it again-it means you accept the person who made the mistake as being HUMAN.

Pink cancer hair student suspended (ParentDish)

Aug 23rd 2008 11:48AM Hey all you folks saying "follow the rules": Where do you think we'd be if the founders of this country had followed the rules? We'd likely still be in Europe, under some king's archaic rule. The people who started this country were rule-breakers who didn't mindlessly follow the dictates of the monarchy of Europe, who defied rules and laws again and again. Do you *really* think we should all follow the rules like mindless lemmings? Shouldn't our youth learn how to think for themselvs and figure out what makes sense and how much bullstuff is out there? I don't want mindless automoton sheep leading my country in 10-20 years. I want the thinkers, the ones who know bull from real stuff, the *real* important stuff and the stuff that won't matter in 5 years, the ones who can think for themselves and make a decision without consulting a team of political parasites who only advise for narrow-minded or selfish reasons.