Thursday, 27 November 2003

Rachel & Andrew have baby "Six Feet" Star Delivers! (E! Online). E! Online - Six Feet Under star Rachel Griffiths was on cloud nine after giving birth this weekend. [Yahoo! News - Most Viewed] Congratulations to Rachel and Andrew!! Welcome to parenthood! And Hello Baby Banjo [listening to: Special Ones - george ] 11:33:37 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Friends

CBS News | The Strange World Of Web Celebs | November 20, 2003 19:40:52 I turned the TV on this morning and saw a segment on the "Today Show".  They ran a segment originally produced by CBS about the Star Wars Kid: A kid alone with a video camera waving a golfball retriever, like a Jedi warrior. A private moment of clumsy 10th grade innocence until four classmates put the tape on the Internet. Today, as CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports, this 15-year-old small town Canadian is known to tens of millions planet-wide as the "Star Wars Kid."  [more] [listening to: (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley ] 10:17:46 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Friends • My Hobbies • My Interests • My Organization • My Profession • Random • TV

Bullying I've been dealing with a incident that has happened to my family this week. It relates to a serious problem that is rife within our schools - bullying. My son Antony has Asperger's Syndrome. As a result, he is a constant target for the bullys at his school. The scenario is always the same - these boys taunt him to the point that he cracks and retaliates. The retaliation is always exaggerated, which causes the overall situation to escalate and the outcome is pretty predicatable - parents are called, boys are chastised, teachers shrug their sholders , principals turn a blind eye and the bullys live to taunt another day. Not good. This week it got ugly. I am not able to go into details, as I suspect there may be legal implications - but bottom line the bullys continue to get away with their behaviour and their victims continue to suffer. And the school pretends as if it isn't happening. And to top it all off, the parents of the bullys are blissfully ignorant of the fact that their little precious are actually ugly bullys.  This is the real shame of it all. Maybe websites like these can help: Bullying, No Way! anti-bullying Bully Busters Dealing with Bullying Addressing Bullying Behaviour Beyond Bullying Bully Sandpit But what I see in these websites is that this is a REAL Problem. It's been around for a long time and there doesnt seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. I would much prefer writing stuff like this that's my boy!, than speaking out about bullys, but it's gotta stop. [listening to: rave goodbye - Paul Mac ] 8:42:05 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family

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