Parents Today

The news is FILLED with crazy parents today.

1. A mom in Tennessee was fed up with her teenage daughter's bad behaviour and felt she had tried everything to get her to change a bit. A. The girl is 13- she's obviously going to act up, but still this I thought, was brilliant. Say what you want about how TERRIBLE it is for the girl and blah blah blah, but it's not like she's hitting her or tearing her down. It'll teach the girl a little humility, and I like it. Kids are baby-ed WAY too much these days being told they are "special" and "can do no wrong" ANYWAY. The mom made her daughter stand outside with a sign that said, ""I don't obey my parents, I'm a liar. I steal from my mom. I have a bad attitude." And while I think she could have written "I lied" instead of "I'm a liar." - I hate to pigeon hole, I think it's brilliant. Apparently she's also making the girl wear it to church on Tuesday as a punishment. ha!!!

2. This was actually in the news yesterday, and I heard it on the radio. A couple from New Zealand decided they wanted to have an unconventional name for their impending child and thus decided to use the happiest moment of their lives (apparently it was their reaction when they first saw the baby on the sonogram) to name the child, "4real". No, I'm not kidding, they didn't even want to try and make it "Fahreal" or "Forreal" they wanted to put a fucking number in the poor bebe's name!!! WHO DOES THAT?!?!? Thass soooo crazy I don't even know where to begin. We have enough Lemon-jellos and Toshibas (no offense to those named that, I just feel bad for you and your parents should be shot) in this world without adding numbers to names!!! Thankfully the New Zealand court system would not allow the couple to make the baby's official name "4real" on the grounds that names should not have any numerals in them. So officially that won't be her name, I just fear that this little girl will actually go by "4real" until she turns 16, realizes what a terrible name she has and go on a murdering rampage wherein she stabs her parents 4 times each screaming, "THERE'S 4 FOR YOU!!! HOW DO YOU LIKE THE NUMBER NOW?!!?!"

3. Lastly a baby girl in London was given 25 nicknames all of them names of famous boxers. Her first name is Autumn, which is already bad enough. I think the only seasonal name I like is Summer. Autumn is my favorite season, but I would never deem to name my child that. Jeez-oo. The girl's full name is Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown. Apparently the mom is hoping she'll have a "sense of humor about it" - and while this isn't near as bad as naming your child 4real, and actually kind of a cool in an off the wall way, I still think these parents are setting their children up for a life of torment.