parental responsabilities
whatever happened to parents taking responsability for their own children these days. i remember back in the days when i was a kid i'd get a quick thump on the back of the head and be sent to time out for stepping out of line, but nowadays everyone seems so afraid of child abuse that kids are kind of running amuck. the problem is now so bad that when a child is told to stop doing something, he looks back at you with this look that says something like, ya so what you gonna do about it? normally i would let parents figure out how to deal with their kids on their own, but something happened recently where a the monkeyshines of a youngen caused an oddity in my own life. it started out with a phone call. nothing out of the ordinary except that the person on the other end wasn't saying anything and it sounded like like he was mumbling something. no big deal, wron number or something i thought, so i hung up the phone to go back to whatever it was i was doing at the time >.> <.< . anyways, i received two more phone calls just the same way, couldn't really hear the person on the other end because of all the excess beeping, so when the phone rang for a fourth time i turned to my freind arona and said" you get it." well after he had been holding the phone to his for a good thirty seconds without saying anything, i became highly curious as to what was going on, so i took the phone back from him. i wasn't sure what to expect really, just not what i heard. the first thing i thougt of was some weird call like prank yankers or something, not the sound of a baby cooing in the background. so here i am holding the phone listening to this toddler on the other end spit out gibberish that only his parents could have a chance in hell of understanding. i'm not angry that the kid called, i'm rather impressed that someone that young was able to figure out how to use the phone, i'm more angry at the fact that the child went unsupervised long enough to phone my house once and hit redial three times. i mean really, people need to watch their kids more closely and be less afraid to tell their kids the difference betwen right and wrong, looking back at this whole thing i realise the the two parts don't make any sense whatsoever, but it's 4:19 in the morning with the thought of sleep still being a far of dream. peace. for now.