Too..much..reading.....must..rest..brain.

Nevermind........

Seems to me a sterilisation programme is needed here.... people who don't want to raise (their own) kids should never be able to have them... period.

And where do these school-homed children learn about love... the kind of love one receives from a mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle or cousin???   While they may receive good educations, etc, they will be lacking vital ingredients to growth and development.  Even if parents make mistakes, generally, it is better for a child to grow and learn with mistakes accompanied by love than institutional mistakes without love.

I also think this highly industrialised, dollar driven world has been a tragedy for kids, with millions of kids going home to empty house because dad's income isn't enough and mum is at work 'til 7.00pm or later to help pay the friggin' mortgage, etc.  When my sister and I were kids, my mother was always at home when we got in from school, and we'd get a bit of love, a bit of discipline and a sensible snack to tide us over 'til dinner... oh yeah, and we'd have to do a few chores before we could go off the play.  Don't see that too often these days, with millions of kids having to fend for themselves and throwing some fat saturated 'treat' in the microwave before they sit on their ballooning arse in front of the TV and/or computer to play... no chores, no exrecise.

Yup, family values/traditions have gonme down the shitter, sacrificed in pursuit of the almighy dollar and material possession... and we wonder why juvenile crime is constantly on the rise, and the severity of their crimes increasing.

Dufrense, you need your nuts cut off... to ensure you bring no more unwanted kids into the world.  Dunno how you'd take a meat cleaver to a similarly thinking woman... but yeah, no more kids for her, either.

my tuppence worth.

Bit early for April One...but looks like you got a few already.

An April Fool's gag???     The bastard... the bastard!!!! 

Still, too many kids these days are neglected by under-committed parents

http://www.theonion.com/articles/increasing-number-of-parents-opting-to-have-childr,17159/ 

Lighten up, folks! It's a parody of "home-schooling". Only Jafo came close. lol.

Hey, I was raised by sheep and I didn't turn out so baaaaaaaaaaaad.

"These teachers are dealing with upwards of 40 students in their classrooms at a time, so obviously they know a lot more about children than someone like me, who only has one son and doesn't know where he is half the time anyway."

Well the above says a lot of the problem doesn't it. Many parents don't know where their children are. My Mother and Father never had a problem knowing where I was and if I did try to pull something off they always seemed to find out. Than i would get the smack on the butt. In this world now if you get caught giving a little smack it's called abuse. The word abuse should really be redefined and a couple smacks in the butt for respect shouldn't be part of it. I guess having 7 grandchildren has opened my eyes as they are allowed to do things I was never allowed to do and frankly I don't agree with a lot they can get away with but don't say anything about it. I could go on but with end with this. Cell phones for kids today are much more important than school and many things. I have seen kids as young as 10 years using a cell phone. When a child enters high school let them have a phone but have a phone that allows them 30 minutes a month to talk, text or whatever. After the 30 minutes the phone shuts off till the 1st of the next month.

Thanks for letting me vent about another b--s--- article that people find time to write that don't have a clue about the real world.

Er...Dave......think April 1....it's a send-up aka parody....

Yes.

Touchy subject for me when people say shit and have no idea what the hell is really going on. Guess you read into that already.

I could tell right away that it was a gag.

There is, however, a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor here, and a lot of truth behind it, too. Sadly, many "parents," so called, either don't care or don't have a clue.

Parody or not, it'll still upset folks who happen to care that many modern kids are neglected and are leading loveless lives... because it's a lot closer to the truth than perhaps we care to admit.

Caveat Emptor.

If someone is upset by this, he'll probably will weep day and night about "The chicken who crossed the road." and how that supposedly puts animal cruelty in a humorous light. Really?

Actually, I did weep over the chicken who crossed the road.... cos mum refused to cook up roadkill and I missed out on chicken soup.

So.....let me guess....thus started the "Legend of The Curried Cabbage" and "Why did the Curried Cabbage cross the Colon?

Yeah, it was a bit like that... though people would get terribly cross if curried cabbage crossed my colon and rectum... er, wrecked 'em.

Oh, and the other thing that annoys me about this School-homed thing... it wasn't available when my son was 14 and a right royal pain in the arse.  It would have been the ideal solution and I wouldn't have pulled out so much of my hair. 

same bloody here! or... here here. I had 2. ummmm.... prison - homing anyone?

Yeah, I had 2 also... boy and a girl, then mrs starkers brought along her bundle of jo...er, trouble.

Dunno about prison-homing, a padded cell and strait jacket should be freely available to parents without access, though.

I'm also thinking... prospective parents should not only be able to determine the sex of their babies, but also have them genetically enginneered to find a job at 5 and leave the nest after receiving 3 months pay.... two months if they can afford to rent more than a cardboard box and a blanket in an alley.  And by the time they're 10 they should be sending money home to mum and dad to repay their board and keep while they were still at home.

Now we're talking. I was thinking of starting out more like 6. That way at least they will be able to buy their own cell phone.

Buying his/her own mobile phone at 6 be buggered... by 6, any genetically engineered kid o' mine would have to own his/her own mobile phone company, a rugby league team, a fleet of luxury cars, a soccer team and a 151 bed bordello with a hooker in every room..... and by the time he/she is 7 I'll be a milti-millionaire.