Thursday, July 30, 2009

meddling neighbours

Yes, Marianne has said that Zack is extremely noisy in the mornings. To top it though, I have just had two neighbours from the opposite side ring our doorbell because Zack was in the bathtub "screaming for more than 10 minutes". Andy arrived this morning and Zack has been completely over-excited all day. Cleaning up toys was a chore, getting Zack to eat his dinner while wandering around and chucking his plate of food on the floor was a chore. Getting Zack to leave YouTube (we were showing Andy the Evian, skating babies) was a chore. Getting Zack into the bath was a battle. Getting him to rinse his hair was a battle. And in the end I emptied the bathtub, asking him to get out, and he wouldn't. So I left him there and joined Keith while he ate his supper and Zack shouted upstairs. He is COMPLETELY able to get out of the bath himself. He just chose not to. He sat in that tub screaming because he wanted attention, and we weren't going to give it to him because he is 'beyond reasoning', he's so tired.
And then... when Keith finally goes upstairs to get him out, the neighbours ring the bell and start talking about child abuse and saying that it's just insane leaving a child naked in the bathtub for ages, screaming. My first question was "do you have children?" and the second was "are you an aunt or uncle?" Negative to both. So I just waved my hands. Bloody hell! Who the hell do people think they are ????
I invited them in to see Zack, to speak to Keith. Both declined.
Piss off, gits.

.... I have seldom felt such indignation.

7 comments:

Zsuzsanna said...

These people obviously don't know you!

Joy said...

I hope Friday has been better! Love you all.

Anonymous said...

Someone told me to read your blogs, because it is ridiculous! And they were absolutely right! Because all those things that child is doing is because he wants attention! If you just stopped blogging the whole day about how bad your son is, and maybe giving him a bit more TLC he wouldnt be like that. And then also, its never to late to start giving the child a good hiding, that is just to programme him about what is right and what is wrong. That is the problem with todays youth, they never got a hiding when they were younger, they got everything on a silver platter and then they end up cocaine sniffing, lazy, good for nothing bums! Because they thought life was easy and you will get everything handed for you in the real life too. And that is also why we are sitting in a world resession, because the new generation wants fancy cars, fancy houses, foods and etc, but they want it NOW, but doesn't want to work for it, so they just use credit and maybe, someone will help them pay it off! But if you just spend more time with your sons and actually teach them good values and to respect every other living being as they want to be treated, maybe he wont do all those things. And the only reason your child is getting worse is because you let him get away with it. YOU! Don't treat the child like an adult, they don't know any better! You as the parent are the one responsible for guiding them through their youth, and if it means a few smacks on the bum along the way, DO IT! It is the same to put a flame next to a child, if you are going to tell him to stay away from it, he is just going to want to touch it more. But if you give him a hiding when he wants to touch the flame, you would have saved the child from a life long scar!
But hey, use it, dont use it. I don't actually care. Its all up to you if you want your child to be a social disaster or not!

Joy said...

Just read "A-non-y-mous"'s comment. Obviously does not have a clue and has to hide behind anonymity to present criticism. The hyphenation says it all "A non E-mouse", who should be minding his/her own business.

Anonymous said...

Oh, sorry, my bad. I thought when you showcase your life on the internet for everyone to see, you know strangers will come across it. You are so right Joy, I am a mouse. Do you really think that a comment like that is going to intimidate me. I'm not that naive, I actually do have more personality than a telephone pole! And shame, Ruth really has problems (more than I thought), not only can't she stand her ground to her kids, but she needs her friends to fight for her. She probably gets her parenting advice from you. I am not going to apologize for anything. I could have written harsher words, but I thought I'll be polite and give my opinion, seeing that I am a stranger to you all. But now that you want to be like that... How long did it take you to come back with a comeback with such witty pun? The last time I heard that, was in a tween movie. And the fact that you can't take constructive critism puts you on an intelligence age of 12. Did you have to wipe your tears away before you responded? The truth always hurts, Joy. Don't worry, you probably also have disasterous children, and all of the sudden you blame it on the "world of today", instead of looking into yourself to see what you could have done to prevent it! Shame, I feel sorry for you, I can see your children doesn't want a relationship with you, so now you rely on your friends to fill the void. I actually feel sorry for the husbands aswell. Please don't take forever with the next respond and enjoy your day! Lots of Love... AnoneMOUSE!

Anonymous said...

RYAN V:

Gosh - it seems even trolls have opinions! Tell me 'anonymous' is it normal for you to peruse compete strangers' blogs and then offer your own sweet 'pearls of wisdom', thinly disguised under a diatribe of complete verbal diarrhea?

Maybe you should fill the obvious lack of education you exhibit, through your poorly structured and executed english, and take yourself back to school.

Clearly you had one TOO MANY smacks around the head when you were growing up.

If you think that you are going to try and 'engage me' by insulting ME, know this - I don't deal with trolls - go scribble somewhere else.

Anonymous said...

To Ryan V:

Yes, I love to "PERUSE COMPETE STRANGERS'" blogs and offer my own sweet pearls of wisdom. It's my favorite thing to do! I could do this ALL day! ;)

Oh, and excuse me for not having a degree in English, heck, it's not even my mother tongue. Next time, I’ll make sure I have my dictionary with me. What do you recommend? Thesaurus?

Sorry for offending you. I don’t even know what I said (to try and engage YOU), but you know how diarrhea is, everything comes out unintended.

If you don't deal with trolls, why did you just waste your energy trying to insult me?

Please give me the source of those extremely insulting names that you guys give me. It’s so hurtful; seriously, I’ll never recover from troll!

LOLZ
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