You start enabling parents with offering them free practical cookery lessons, supported with the input of a chef and a dietician, and you make healthy food cheaper, and you take into account cultural and nutritional needs.
You stop blaming parents, you stop relying on schools to sort out problems that stem from home.
You stop worrying about the kids that are a bit overweight but otherwise healthy. This society seems to hate obesity even where it is not a health issue, you value people for who they are and if there is a health issue then you you help them to overcome that through information, advice and real, practical help.
You involve dads as well as mums.
You don't patronise people but actively try to help and educate them, and you make it easy for people to afford to feed thier families good wholesome healthy food instead of sugar and salt laden convenience foods.
That's what I'd do, anyways :>
I am not really worried if the powers that be know that I like Gary Numan, Judge Dredd and shagging.
They can listen in and log all my activities if they want. I am proud that I can be a complete geek and still get laid.
It doesn't scare me that they can log information if they want, I'm just surprised they'd want to. It scared me more that they can obviously log my movements if I drive a car... those cameras aren't just for speeding, they're there so the government know I go to heavy metal clubs, and I am worried they will tell people I do air guitar...
All this silliness is just really to point out that most people need not be worried about the hard fact that, yes, whaat you say and do, and where you go, can indeed be logged. But the authorites are very unlikely to be even slightly interested and it would only really be if they had cause to investigate you that any of this stuff would even be looked at at all. That bit may be scary, as if they were to investigate me for, say, interest in violence, they would discover that I play GTA4 and like to discuss the finer points of which type of zombies enjoy eating brains.
No, and they aren't going to cook either, if they have not been used to good home cooking at home. Schools are not home, and are not as important as home, and can not have the same effect on a child's life as home experience does.
Blaming parents is wrong, enabling parents is much better.
We need to teach parents how to cook again - it's all very well teaching cookery at school but it isn't the kids who make the tea.
I'd offer but you don't know me, plus i don't even know where Chameleons is...
But hope you get someone to take you :>
It's just a shame that Penistone is pronounced Penny-ston. If I were from there I'd call it Penis Town at every given opportunity.
But then, I have the sense of humour of an eight year old.
Roses are read
Measles are spotty
You have a face
That's incredibly grotty
I love you looks
I love your lips
But I'd swap you for
A bag of fish and chips...
Er... I'm still on the thread about the daft rhymes we had as kids, right?
Just download all your illegal copyrighted stuff at someone elses house.
Er, I mean, don't do it.
What is a crime stringent area?
Talking from experience? I live on an estate in Salford where I have been told, 'Ooooh, the busses won't go onto that estate because of the gangs'. I work in Moss Side with kids on the child protection register. I have some experience with living with antisocial behaviour and with kids who cause it or who are accused of causing it. I have to walk through gangs of teens asking me to buy them fags and booze every time i want to nip to the shops to buy a pint of milk, and I ahve to tell them, 'No', because if I did buy them that stuff and got caught I'd be putting my career at risk.
But I still respect teenagers - including the ones who hang out thinking they are looking hard in thier track suits, drunk on half a bottle of blue wicked.
Because I have been there - I am not too proud to admit that, as a teen, I would hang out on the streets with my mates. We would sit on walls and occasionally spit. We would smoke fags and talk loudly. No doubt people felt intimidated by us... but we absolutely did not intend to scare people. We were just hanging out, that was all. Three of us were doing voluntary work with older people with disibilities. There was just nothing else to do (that old chestnut).
We couldn't go to the youth club because the youth club was full of knobheads who would have battered us. We couldn't go to the park because the parkies had banned anyone over 14, and would chase us out even though we weren't there to cause trouble, and we couldn't stay at home because we were too cool to hang out with our parents, who sucked and didn't understand us.
I'm not sure it's so different these days - sure, teenagers have far less taste in music and clothing these days than the people I hung out with had, but that's only natural - they _have_ to like stuff that my generation hate - that's the rules.
But there is still nowhere to go for the average teen, the older generations are still in fear of all of them because there are a few who are arseholes, and thier dumb little uniforms (hoodies) are still in the papers just like in my day (when it was the skinheads who were the problem... but we did look better than teens do these days...)
I am not saying that teenagers hanging around estates do not cause any trouble. I am saying, though, that they're not all bad.
You really like starting hot topics, don't you ;)
If I were a caterpillar
Life would be a farce
I'd climb up all the shrubs and trees
and slide down on my
Hands and knees
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Mary had a little lamb
she thought it rather silly
she threw it in the air one day
and caught it by its...
Willy was a watchdog
lying in the grass
along came a bumblebee
and stung him on his...
Ask no questions
tell no lies
Once I saw a policeman
doing up his...
Flies are a nuisance
Bees are worse
That's the end
of my clean verse
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Mary had a brand new bike
She rode it back to front
But every time she pulled the brake
The seat went up her...
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You know, if society were to actually enforce the laws that exist already, rather than just allowing those who want to to run riot, then surely that would go some way to making the streets feel safer.
Kids have always 'hung around' - it seems to just be something teenagers do - standing outside shops in the rain in January may not sound too much fun but most kids do it or have done it, without causing any trouble. It's just that the sight of it can be scary for others even if they don't intend any trouble. The solution lies, I feel, in making the streets feel safe again for people even _with_ teenagers hanging around - we need to learn to accept that teens exist and that just because they are outside the chippy that doesn't automatically mean they are going to steal your chips. To do this, we need to remove the influence of the few teenagers who seem to delight in creating havock. This means desling with any actual crime committed swifly and appropriately, whilst acknowledging the right of teenagers to stand around being bored in the time honoured tradition. That, or investing in youth clubs that teenagers actually want to go to, that are open when they need to go there.
The majority of young people are decent and don't go causing trouble. Why penalise them for the actions of a few cocky little knob heads?
That advert is creepy. But smelling like chocolate doesn't seem do bad - it's just I'd rather smell of chocolate through eating about 10 bars of Galaxy.
I'm terribly shy around new people.
Honest.
Labels are so restrictive, but they'ye a handy barometer for figuring out what kind of chance you may have with someone :>
A liking for anal shennanigans doesn't make someone bi, though. I'm bi and I don't recieve anal from anyone ever as I have found that I do not like it - it's not a hang up, not a denial of the gay side of my sexuality (and for those who know me, it's not as if I make any effort whatsoever to deny or disguise my sexuality), it just has nothing to do with anything other than it hurts. But, if I did do it, and it was a female person doing the fucking, then that would not to me count as a bi experience. It might if I was sucking someones willy whist she was doing it, though :}
Maybe, or maybe they just come back out of morbid curiosity? Happens to me all the time...
If you have enjoyed yourself and your partner seems happy, then you're probably a good fuck.
If someone comes back for more, you must be a _fantastic_ shag :>
Ah, now I'm going to stalk you... ;>
Hah!
Bunch of wankers!
Erm...
there is nothing abnormal about masturbation - sex drives between two people vary and sometimes one partner is horny when the other is not, or sometimes someone comes first (I'm sorry but I can't spell it as 'cums' without thinking i am writing for a readers wives mag).
i think it is perfectly healthy in a sexual relationship to be considerate of the non-comee as it were and to ensure thier pleasure after the intercourse is done, if that makes any sense at all.
Sometimes the hand is better than anything else and other times other bits are preferable, but so long as the relationship is happy then everything is good.
