So you can’t answer a question either? I’m having a hard time believing you have a Ph.D.

“I don’t know how to clean.” Is Upper-Middle-Class speak for “Cleaning is beneath me.”

YEP.

How does a person with a functioning brain not know how to clean?

Actually taking the children away seemed like serious overkill on the first story. How about start by telling her she can’t leave the kids at her moms and maybe offering some support? That really seemed like a situation that could have been dealt with successfully without jumping to removal.

I don’t care how people see me, I just care if they are confusing understanding with agreement. Which is once again confirmed.

Inflammatory or not, it’s true. When you say it’s not really abuse, you are making excuses for abuse, because it is abuse. Again, this is based on the definitions of words in the dictionary.

What makes you think I never challenge my views, the fact that you weren’t there? What makes you think I don’t understand others…

This rant seems less about water bottles and more about the authors poor parenting decisions. If kids forget their bottles, too bad. Make them carry their own. Make them wash them. None of this actually needs to be your problem.

My husband insisted our kids stop watching Curious George because he thought it taught them bad behavior and was holding back their language development.

“Piracy is wrong because it is the direct consumption of media without compensating the creators.”

And? Why is that wrong? 

I can only speak for myself but as a person who pirates I can say no, I don’t “know” it’s wrong, in fact I know it’s NOT wrong.

Making a copy of something is not stealing. Stealing is immoral because it takes the thing you’ve stolen away from the person who had it, so they no longer have it anymore. That right there…

Just keep ignoring the main point I’ve been making from the get go yet again, BTW. Because you are listening SO HARD.

A person’s feelings do not determine if something is abuse. What determines that is the fact of the event (which are not in dispute) the the meaning of the word abuse. What happened fits the definition found in the dictionary. Therefore it is abuse. Feelings don’t matter.

Because when she says her experience is not abuse she is attempting to change what the definition of abuse is.

She doesn’t get to define what reality is! Her feelings on her experience do not change the fact that ANY time a child is hit with e belt, it is abuse.

What this comes down to is she doe not think belt…

gee, I’d almost believe that except none of your posts were aimed generally, they were targeting nadaforgretchenweiners specifically.

Like you are not acting like you have descended from heaven to judge me? LOL.

Preventing abuse is my business and attitudes that say otherwise are what I am combating because they only aid abusers.

Hitting a child with a belt is abuse, it fits the dictionary definition. No one gets to erase that in favor of their…

That’s your opinion, I disagree.

Hitting a child with a belt is abuse. It’s in line with the dictionary definition of abuse.

The kind of excuse making you are displaying is exactly the kind of attitudes I’m talking about. You are not helping by making excuses for why abuse i not abuse or not really that bad.

The law is not the final arbiter of morals. Hitting a child with a belt is abuse no matter what the law says.

I disagree with you that it’s not helpful to say so. As I explained multiple times in this overall discussion, calling abuse what it is prevents lax attitudes that excuse abuse and look the other way, allowing…

No one forces you to read to respond to anything.

This is a public forum, not your personal space and if I think something is important (other people DO read this) I am going to say it.

Because ideally when we know better we do better.

No, I’m not going to stop advocating for what I think is right.

So you can fuck right off.