Teenagers nowadays think nothing of giving each other hugs to greet each other. It is how we raised them. We raised them to show affection, we raised them to love. We also raised them to respect. We raised them to recognize the boundaries of what is right, what is wrong and what is acceptable behavior and what is not.
The other day when I picked her up from school, she was livid. She was outraged that on two separate occasions that day, two boys she considered as friends hugged her as is their usual way greeting each other. The first incident happened between classes. Her friend hugged her but in addition nuzzled her neck and kissed her neck. She said she was disgusted but was too shocked to say anything at the time. A little while later as she was going in to the classroom, another boy did the same thing to her. Whether the two contrived to do this to her or not, she is not sure. She is sure of how it made her feel. It made her feel uncomfortable and it made her feel dirty. She ran into the shower as soon as she got home to wash it all off. The thing is, you can not simply wash off the feeling of having been violated leaves behind.
You can’t simply chuck it to teenage hormones and that boys will be boys. Was she partly responsible for having been subjected to this? Should she consider changing the way she relates to her friends and should she be the one compelled to change classes so she does not have to deal with them again? The answer is a resounding NO. Read the rest of this entry »
Yep, still ranting today….. so move on if you don’t want to hear me whine.
My two older daughters, who are both in concert band (not marching band, mind you), came home yesterday (I had forgotten about this last night, so it may have contributed to my irritability too) asking for a check for $45. Each. For performance uniform that their band teacher had deemed necessary for them to have.
Like I said, this is concert band, not marching band. They have one performance per semester. They will probably have one before the Christmas break.
Don’t know if it’s the weather or the time change or the fact that it is now dark when I get home from work or that’s it’s colder or all of the above, but I am just darn irritable to day. Well, all that and I’m also PMSing but what ever….
I dozed off while watching Heroes, which really then irritated me cause I love Heroes! and I just can’t believe I fell asleep while watching it. Then, I realized, all my kids are still up at 10 o’clock on a school night! and the kitchen hasn’t been tidied up! grrrr……. don’t know why these little things bothered me tonight when normally I wouldn’t even worry about it.
Oh, and if it wasn’t for NaBloPoMo, i wouldn’t even bother writing anything up tonight, but I just realized I hadn’t posted today yet. grrrr!
I won’t say anything about this, I’ll let them tell you about it…
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If you’re still unsure whether you should sign, read some of these: Bush Vetoes Health Measure – on the Washington post On MSNBC On HuffingtonPost A Funny Perspective – well, not reallyI don’t know whether to laugh or cry…..Mr. Bush claims this legislation, which proposes adding $35 billion over 5 years so that an additional 6 million children will have health coverage, is too costly. He proposes a $5 billion increase instead. That’s reasonable, isn’t it?In the meantime, the Iraq War has now cost American taxpayers $456 billion and counting.
I suppose, if you are going to send your young people off to die in an unwarranted senseless war anyway, why bother keeping them healthy if they’re going to die young anyway?
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