24th May 2007

The divine destructive force

posted in HaHa, Parenting |

If you ever get upset or embarrassed by something your toddler has done while in a store or in public, take heart.

At least your toddler didn’t dance all over some Tibetan monks’ sand mandala…

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There are currently 9 responses to “The divine destructive force”

  1. 1 On May 24th, 2007, D said:

    The link is broken. Use this one:
    http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/120315.html

  2. 2 On May 24th, 2007, Richard Querin said:

    Hey there,

    The link appears to be broken although you can see the story on the front page of kansascity.com.

    Boy, those sure weren’t monks leaving some of the comments on the story over on that site though. ;)

    Cheers.

  3. 3 On May 24th, 2007, omegamom said:

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another way to get comments is to futz up your linkage. It’s fixed now, guys (and mom!), and thanks.

  4. 4 On May 24th, 2007, omegamom said:

    Holy moly, Richard! I hadn’t looked at the comments until you mentioned them, and now I wish I hadn’t.

  5. 5 On May 24th, 2007, kate said:

    I was just coming here to leave a comment about the comments. :-)

    People are scary, sometimes, boy.

    I’ve been really annoyed at newspapers opening up stories for comment lately. By all means, have a forum, but let the news stand as the news. My old paper does this and it brings out the most hateful things I’ve ever seen.

  6. 6 On May 24th, 2007, Julie Pippert said:

    I read the article, watched the video. I don’t think the mom even saw…she didn’t seem like it?

    Holy moly though!

    I just had a stream of “oh my that time with my kids…!” and “there but for the grace…” thoughts LOL.

    Then I read the comments! How sad that only about 5% of them protrayed anything other than an unreasonable and inexplicable anger towards mothers, children and what happened. Creepy? Beat them? Whale on them? Beat their a$$? Have CPS called? Have someone else raise? And loads of amazing leaps of logic and assumptions.

    It stinks that it happened…and I can’t tell if the mom had the kid in sight (don’t know that place). But to go where most of those comments go…

    Wow. Geez, so disappointing.

  7. 7 On May 24th, 2007, Spacemom said:

    Now I have to go back and read the comments.

    When I worked at a museum, I had the honor of watching a similar sand art being made. The first one was taken to a Niagara Falls and gently released. The monks made it clear that life is fluid, nothing is forever.

    I wish all of us could take that view point.

    We got special permission to have the second one saved with a spray that locked the sand in place. I don’t like that one. I like the honesty of the first one, the simplicity, the calmness of being a temporary fixture

  8. 8 On May 24th, 2007, Spacemom said:

    Oh man, those people are NASTY in the comments.

  9. 9 On May 24th, 2007, omegamom said:

    I love this comment (though I’m sure none of the folks it’s aimed at will recognize the sarcasm): “I bet they were poor people. A chld from a wealthy family would never destroy something so beautiful. Exceptional American children know this.”

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