Light can be a punishable offence

My daughter stood up in class on Thursday and wanted to make an announcement: She was going to live stay with her daddy that had no electricity. She estatic!!!

I'm a writer...we don't get paid much. The electric company doesn't understand that there are lean times and prosperous times. their solution is to stop me from working. If they stop me from working, it will give me incentive to pay their bill. Great idea....electric people. It must be nice being the only legal monopoloy around. Look at poor Bill Gates. This is a man who sat in his mom's garage and created DOS. Then he went on to crearte and fund the ability of Microsoft. Then he put a PC on every desk. Because of this man you know what a computer is more than a rotary phone. But, he got 1/2 of his company that he thought of, developed, created, and prospered taken away from him because he had a "monopoly". Really? Or maybe he just did something while others sat on their ass. But the power company, well that's different i suppose.

So I decidced to rise above the electric. I have my candles, my invertor and car battery, my chimney and chimney stove. I am liberating myself. Free at last Free at last Oh lord, I am free at last. This beautiful thing caused me to have a social worker call me and suggest that I might be punished for this. Oh, I see. For 100 years, electric has been around as a modern convenience. The world has had people on it for millions of years. I guess according to the world as a whole, the social worker dcf types, Every person, from Galileo, Newton, all of the Caesars, every king and queen of Europe prior to 1880, and every other child int he entire world that lived with out electric was being harmed and injured.

How to raise a baby...Guess!

I hear new parents complain that they don't know what to do. They look at this slug and wonder, what the hell am I suppose to do with that. They don't know how to handle no sleep, they don't know how to handle a bottle, formula, bouncy chairs, strollers, diapers, diaper bags, or any thing.

Then there are these fantastic doctors and stay at home moms and all sorts of people who think they have cracked the code, cracked the world around them...then they write a book or create an article in a magazine, or the real go getters create an entire magazines. (Parenting anyone?) Now if a new parent had to decide whether they were going to read some fantastic article on how to solve all of their problems, or sleep......sleep is going to win out whether they like it or not.

So what's the answer? Well, the old woman in the shoe couldn't feed her kids so she just smacked them around and sent them to bed. We still read this monstrous tale to the kids, so why not?

Seriously....What ever you think is right, is right! Trust me, everyone will let you know their opinion of whatever you do with your child. EVERYONE!!!

Our teachers...GREAT!

We derive how we see the world by people who have no idea how to raise us. The people who teach us about the world in general, are the same people who are wondering what the hell is going on. Most people are raised by kids who are about 25 or so, wondering where their path is, what the meaning of life is, and where the hell this is all going. Then they are given the task to teach a future generation. No wonder we all grow up to be confused, agitated, and wondering what people are the people we are suppose to believe.

Then these same people finally think they have a handle on things, and realize...Wow, I shoukld have told my kid that when he was young. But they didn't know it.

Folks, just because your parents gave you their advice, remember they're still learning too.