That article made me hungry.

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well stated!

When the thing on the news came out about early childhood obesity and how there was pressure on the government to change it, the only thing I thought was this (and pardon the expletive):

“Man, that’s just downright fucking lazy!”

It blows my mind that parents are so negligent that they won’t even address the health issues themselves. A child is your responsibility. If it means you need a lesser job, smaller house, non-plasma television and don’t buy some crazy thousand-dollar stroller with cup holders, that’s the sacrifice you make. Don’t sacrifice your kid’s health and then blame the government. It sickens me.

Oh, people complain about mortgage prices and the necessity of a second job, but why? Prices rise because people want more for something than what they paid for it. But they’re buying something for more than the original buyers paid for it, too. And no-one with a million-dollar house these days will sell it for $250,000 ‘cos the mortgage is still sitting there, so to take the bottom out of the housing market is impossible. All ‘cos we’re too busy playing our keep-up-with-the-Joneses problems. The latest car, the biggest TV, foxtel, digital TV, eating Thai, buying new underwear, taking Viagra, doing boxercise, the list goes on. I say, bring back another recession and we’ll come back to our senses.

Same thing with sex ed. Our society is build on sexuality, our kids are starting at 14 and working their way up, and our response is “get the government to do more sex ed in schools- its had a great effect in Holland” rather than responsible parenting, attitude towards marketing and having a definitive public stance. If that’s the argument, littering is down in Singapore ‘cos you get a bloody thrashing for spitting gum on the sidewalk. Maybe we need more thrashings?

No, in Australia it’s someone else’s fault. I’ll say it again: that’s downright fucking lazy.

Hear hear!! If there’s no objections Reuben, I’d like to put that in the letters section of Backbench.

Reuben sounds like an American Republican.

Thanks Stu.

Jim, I dunno about that American Republican thing…

Anyway, as a parent myself I take it as my duty to ensure the health and wellbeing of my kid (and soon to be kids) over and above my own convenience, which is the nature of parenthood.