The world is so 'f'd up...

[billisonboard]

Dec 28, 2015 10:44:20 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

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I am reading through Little House on the Prairie books with my oldest.  In one of the books, Laura and her little sister are being bullied by the teacher.  Well, the situation gets resolved pretty quickly by the school board.  Can you imagine the same today? ...

Yes. I can easily imagine someone writing a book in which the situation is quickly resolved.

[whoisjohngalt]

Dec 28, 2015 17:19:52 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Dec 28, 2015 10:44:20 GMT -5 whoisjohngalt said:

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I am reading through Little House on the Prairie books with my oldest.  In one of the books, Laura and her little sister are being bullied by the teacher.  Well, the situation gets resolved pretty quickly by the school board.  Can you imagine the same today? ...

Yes. I can easily imagine someone writing a book in which the situation is quickly resolved.

[MJ2.0]

Dec 28, 2015 17:08:19 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Dec 28, 2015 9:03:29 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

ditto what pretty much everyone said. I remember playing outside with the neighborhood kids most of the day on the weekends or summer. Kids don't seem to play out anymore - either because the parents think the kids are going to get kidnapped or badly hurt (which could have easily happened when we were younger) .

of course youparents didn't fear that CPS would come and take you away just because you were playing outside unsupervised. Heck, that may even happen now if the kids are just playing in the backyard or across a quiet street in the park. 

And what are we teaching the future adults with this suffocating, overly negative approach, to life? Will they ever be able to see good in people they don't personally know? The onslaught of news has made us fearful and isolationist and that will only get worse if we don't get a grip. So maybe the question shouldn't be "is the world f*ckedup" but rather "what can we do to get it from being f*cked up worse and what will make the future better than today"?

I agree with everything you said. I have been a pessimist for a while but I've I try to start out each day with positive thoughts and intentions but I start struggling pretty quickly. Stuff and people annoy me easily, and I know I need to work on my reactions to what I deem "stupid", "tactless" or "mindless" people. I also need to constantly remind myself that most people are not bad. I don't know if they're good, but they are not bad. They - like me - are just trying to get by in life without too much hassle. But sometimes that "hassle" includes stepping out of the comfort zone and doing something like making a new friend or helping a stranger.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Am I the only one who remembers the "stranger danger" and molestation hysteria of the 1980's?

[ArchietheDragon]

Dec 29, 2015 11:25:04 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Am I the only one who remembers the "stranger danger" and molestation hysteria of the 1980's?

say no, then go, and tell someone you trust. 

[wvugurl26]

Maybe I'm chicken shit but you wouldn't catch me as a grown adult alone in the neighborhood the kids were in after dark. I don't know what the answer is. People think CPS in Montgomery County is overkill and babies are murdered in Baltimore. I guess the balance is in the middle.

I do think the whole original interaction could have gone a little better on the dad's part. I get the slippery slope thing but sometimes what is your right to do and what you should do to make things smoother are not one and the same. Generally interactions with authority figures go better if you are polite and respectful.

[MJ2.0]

Dec 29, 2015 11:26:12 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Dec 29, 2015 11:25:04 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Am I the only one who remembers the "stranger danger" and molestation hysteria of the 1980's?

say no, then go, and tell someone you trust. 

and then research came out that if you were to be molested or abducted, it would most likely be by someone you know.