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Date Posted: 13:18:12 10/05/01 Fri
Author: Kelly
Subject: I am not "shocked"
In reply to: Naturally 's message, "Re: Parties on Primrose Hill" on 21:19:31 10/04/01 Thu

I wasn't commenting about the drugs "being" in Dracut. Gee, I dated a Cocaine dealer once. What most naive don't realize is, big drug dealers MOVE to the burbs, because there is less "watch" on their "owned houses". Cities have satellites on every corner for police stations. Towns usually only have one. Neighbors have more land between houses, and traffic is less. Therefore, they have a better chance at a business in towns than they do in the cities. The cities are just for the runners to work in. The BURBS are where they Dealers themselves live.

What I was commenting on is the parents. Let me tell you, I did everything you commented on as a child/teen. Hell, Marsh hill had a tree decorated with Miller bottles every Christmas, in the old Avco Test Plant driveway across from Arthurs farm. We had a barrel that we lit a fire.

But, I had curfews, and I as for discipline..my Grandmother could have been a drug-sniffing dog in a past life! I got caught, and discipline (a word not known today in most households) involved a utensil that should have been flipping pancakes, not "buns". Now a days, our Sokolovs call it abuse. Back then, it was discipline. Go figure.

These parents are dropping their kids off anywhere. Now, if you kid can't drive, and you have to drive them, shouldn't they be too young to be hanging in a place that is so far from home that they need to be driven? And, does anyone have a curfew anymore? I drive in at night down Passaconway, and kids are walking down the road at 10pm. We had to be in BEFORE the lights came on. Maybe that is the problem..we don't have enough street lights?

I hear people screaming about the teachers and the police, but no one is screaming about the parents, who are in control (or suppose to be) and letting these kids out to places unknown at night. During the day, teachers are the parents, and at night, society is. Must be nice..I have 5, and know where mine are at all times, and 7 pm on a school night is the latest my oldest can be out. Yet, I see kids not much older walking the streets alone at night, in dark clothing until much, MUCH later.

Also, I discipline. Maybe some think that is wrong, but when I GO TO WALMART or to SHOP N SAVE, my kids are holding onto the carriage with me every step of the day, are not screaming tantrums, know that the only time they get "gifts" is birthdays and holidays, and have not ONCE gone to an aisle without me by their side.

I am still waiting for that party-raid we are having on Primrose. I make my own bootleg Kahlua..as long as someone brings the fire to keep warm. I think I have marshmallows around her also, somewhere.

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Replies:

Re: I am not "shocked" -- Ron Kolek, 00:20:33 10/08/01 Mon
- you need to be honest with your children.. -- Kelly, 02:37:34 10/08/01 Mon
  - Re: you need to be honest with your children.. -- frb, 10:51:12 10/08/01 Mon
  - Re: you need to be honest with your children.. -- frb, 10:53:12 10/08/01 Mon
  - Re: you need to be honest with your children.. -- DUH, 14:29:30 10/08/01 Mon
    - Math's Girl's Ode to Discipline! :) -- Math Girl, 19:43:47 10/18/01 Thu