Hot Stoves and Amusement Parks

 

Hot Stoves and Amusement Parks

It’s Your Responsibility To Teach Your Kids Not To Bully Disabled Kids

Jimmy Doom
Feb 20 · 3 min read
Photo by Ricardo Moura on Unsplash

It seems the social media multiverse is patting humanity on the back because a few people, including some celebrities, rallied around a kid bullied due to dwarfism and now the kid is going to Disneyworld. That’s great.

Now look in the mirror and see whose fault it is that the kid got bullied in the first place.

You teach your little angels not to touch a stove, don’t you? To say please and thank you?

Then how fucking hard is it to teach a kid not to pick on another kid who is different than them?

There’s this thing Al Gore may or may not have invented called the internet.

At the first sign of morning sickness, on this internet, you can download a gallery of every conceivable-pun intended-way a kid may differ from your plausibly physically and intellectually normative kid.

Have you pumped the brakes on this rant yet and thought “kids will be kids?” If that’s the goddamn case, how come three out of five kids in second grade don’t have third-degree stove burns on their palms? Because you taught them not to fucking touch the stove.

In that same conversation, you can say, “Hey look, Junior Perfect Specimen, in life you will encounter other kids who may be different from you in a variety of ways.” (If you must illustrate these differences with photos from this amazing internet tool, do so. Whatever it takes).

“DON’T BULLY OR OTHERWISE HARASS THOSE CHILDREN. IT MAKES YOU AN ASSHOLE AND THAT IS A PART OF THE ANATOMY EVERYONE HAS AND NO ONE EVER WANTS TO BE COMPARED TO.”

No kid should be bullied. We know this. But if no kid is gonna be bullied, how about Mommy and Daddy teach Little Johnny Scholar and Little Johnny Athlete that the kids who have differences that they have no control over don’t get fucking tormented for it. If they get used to that idea, then maybe they can extend some of that compassion to the nose pickers and the bedwetters too.

But ya gotta start somewhere. And that starting line should be showing respect-true respect, not pity-to the kids who start the day with challenges.

It ain’t that hard.

Image for post
Photo by Pedro Velasco on Unsplash

Kids should go to Disneyworld because they sold the most raffle tickets or spelled the most words right, not because they come home from school traumatized, threatening to off themselves because another child tormented them.

Somebody else’s kid didn’t do that. Your kid did that, or will if you don’t add one more lesson to the repertoire.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Dying Isle

Image
  Image public domain, from the British Library V rollek Isle was wheezing, if an island could wheeze, the dry brown vegetation blowing into Ozzan Bay, haphazardly decorating the webs of the Salt spiders that blocked any ships from shore. The Kouncil would hold the cave tomes aloft, telling the populace, repeatedly, that it was a curse prophesied, but Unlaa knew differently. She had studied the alchemies secretly since childhood, never being allowed to rise above academy because of her gender. But she knew. She didn’t need the Kouncil’s meaningless parchment degrees. The knowledge was within her. The Kouncil had farmed their own land for export well beyond what the small island could sustain. The Kouncil was the curse, not some incantation scrawled by cave dwellers, improperly heeded or blasphemed. A vangar strolled by, starving, confused. It looked at Unlaa and young Pondalo as if they were food. Unlaa placed her tongue against her teeth, making the clicking noise of a lava gull. ...
Read more

Personal Evolution Revolution

Image
  Personal Evolution Revolution 5 Things The Suicide Machines’ Jason Navarro Would Like You To Know. Jimmy Doom May 21  · 3 min read The Suicide Machines levitating live show. Photo by David Dominic, Jr. If you’re struggling to make something positive out of your time, Jason Navarro might be a good guy to pay attention to. Skating a sonic Stormfront of ska and punk out of Detroit and onto an international stage, The Suicide Machines, fronted by Navarro, were a staple of the glory days of  The Warped Tour  in the ’90s, often compared to seminal Berkeley foursome  Operation Ivy , the band that spawned  Rancid. Navarro, a man of boundless energy and fierce loyalty possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of, and genuine love for music. He demands to give full credit to his musical progenitors. “People think Operation Ivy was a big influence on The Suicide Machines which they are, but  Gangster Fun ,  The Specials ,  Negative Approach ,...
Read more

Woke Women of Instagram

Image
  Woke Women of Instagram The Age of Incomplete Enlightenment Photo by  Katarina Šikuljak  on  Unsplash She’s committed and passionate. She’s a Pisces, though she objects to the use of the fish’s likeness without permission. She believes in anarchy. She hates the mole on her left buttock and carnivores. She’s outraged by the system and loud garbage trucks after Sunday Funday. She, (a pronoun that she has told her followers is under consideration for dumping in favor of the more inclusive  they ), doesn’t post many thirsty beach shots, though there are a few, right cheek only) among the photos of her rescue chinchilla and her life hacks for ecofriendly urination. For weeks she has reminded us that she loathes discrimination against  races, religions, species, genders, non-genders, abilities, plants, and sunrises.  She informs us   that exclusionary practices will not be tolerated, she demands that we unfollow if we have ever even witnessed any of a...
Read more