Comments on: Cry Them a River http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/ Celebrating the Joys of Parenting and Childhood Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: La BellaDonna http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10124 La BellaDonna Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:40:17 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10124 Holy Mary, Mother of God. That's - that's someone's idea of a <i>problem?</i> Not only that, but a problem of such dimensions? She's living in an alternate reality. Can I get a transfer to that world? Please? Holy Mary, Mother of God. That’s - that’s someone’s idea of a problem? Not only that, but a problem of such dimensions?

She’s living in an alternate reality. Can I get a transfer to that world? Please?

]]> By: Eilish http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10080 Eilish Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:31:08 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10080 That article was just awful. I felt horrible for those poor children whose parents obviously are putting way too much pressure on them. I know, poor little rich kids, right? We didn't have a lot growing up, just enough, but we always knew our parents loved each other and us, no matter what. We didn't really think about anything else at that age and why would we? What must those poor children think when they are wait-listed after all their parents expect of them? The obvious message is that they are not good enough. That article was just awful. I felt horrible for those poor children whose parents obviously are putting way too much pressure on them. I know, poor little rich kids, right? We didn’t have a lot growing up, just enough, but we always knew our parents loved each other and us, no matter what. We didn’t really think about anything else at that age and why would we?

What must those poor children think when they are wait-listed after all their parents expect of them? The obvious message is that they are not good enough.

]]> By: gemdiva http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10051 gemdiva Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:54:44 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10051 Only the disgustingly wealthy have the leisure time to "drink themselves into oblivion" over such trivialities. The rest of us just keep on keepin' on. Ahhhh....the nervous breakdown as status symbol. I will now gag! Only the disgustingly wealthy have the leisure time to “drink themselves into oblivion” over such trivialities. The rest of us just keep on keepin’ on. Ahhhh….the nervous breakdown as status symbol. I will now gag!

]]> By: La Petite Acadienne http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10050 La Petite Acadienne Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:48:55 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10050 If the afterlife is fair, every single mother whose child has died, gone missing, or had a serious illness or injury will be able to take turns swatting that spoiled, thankless twit upside the head. Anybody who gets worked up over something like that should be required by law to live with a below-poverty-level family for a month, either here or abroad, in order to gain perspective and empathy. They'd be put on leave from work and would not be able to access any of their own funds, and would have to work at a minimum wage job for that month. That fantasy law would also require all politicians, from town council right up to the leader of the country, to make that same living arrangement once every 5 years. I can dream, right? If the afterlife is fair, every single mother whose child has died, gone missing, or had a serious illness or injury will be able to take turns swatting that spoiled, thankless twit upside the head.

Anybody who gets worked up over something like that should be required by law to live with a below-poverty-level family for a month, either here or abroad, in order to gain perspective and empathy. They’d be put on leave from work and would not be able to access any of their own funds, and would have to work at a minimum wage job for that month.

That fantasy law would also require all politicians, from town council right up to the leader of the country, to make that same living arrangement once every 5 years.

I can dream, right?

]]> By: Beenzzz http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10048 Beenzzz Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:59:35 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10048 What a freakin' drama queen! What a freakin’ drama queen!

]]> By: raincoaster http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10044 raincoaster Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:45:43 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10044 Yes, that woman has failed her child. She should turn him over to the nanny to be raised and just go live in Monte Carlo and send cheques. Vanity Fair used to have a wonderful feature which was just things the staggeringly rich had said, like "a private jet is the only way for a Siamese to fly. They're so fussy." <i>the worst experience that I could ever imagine going through as a mother</i> Oh, someone take this princess to a Dorothea Lange exhibit, please. http://lakelandschools.org/wphs/erichsen/grapesofwrath/grapesofwrathhome.htm Yes, that woman has failed her child. She should turn him over to the nanny to be raised and just go live in Monte Carlo and send cheques.

Vanity Fair used to have a wonderful feature which was just things the staggeringly rich had said, like “a private jet is the only way for a Siamese to fly. They’re so fussy.”

the worst experience that I could ever imagine going through as a mother
Oh, someone take this princess to a Dorothea Lange exhibit, please.
http://lakelandschools.org/wphs/erichsen/grapesofwrath/grapesofwrathhome.htm

]]> By: shell http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10043 shell Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:36:17 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/2008/04/08/cry-them-a-river/#comment-10043 heh. we went to dinner with some friends in SF last weekend and we had the same discussion. they are getting ready to put their kid in preschool and have been wait listed. they didn't mind, though, thinking they would try out other places, but said there were a ton of sobbing mothers around who had also been wait listed. how nuts is that! seriously. it's preschool for god's sake. it's so sad to me that people use their kids as pawns at such an early age. let them be kids, dammit! :) heh. we went to dinner with some friends in SF last weekend and we had the same discussion. they are getting ready to put their kid in preschool and have been wait listed. they didn’t mind, though, thinking they would try out other places, but said there were a ton of sobbing mothers around who had also been wait listed. how nuts is that! seriously. it’s preschool for god’s sake. it’s so sad to me that people use their kids as pawns at such an early age. let them be kids, dammit! :)

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