Assuming, much?

I was reading the latest confessions on TMC today. Usually I don’t comment unless I have something to say. I do “me too” a few confessions if I find I need to. But today I read the most ridiculous one yet.

Someone had posted that when she sees a child under 2 years old with pierced ears, she automatically assumes that the child has a teenage mum.

I can’t understand this assumption. My background is European. It’s almost custom to get your daughter’s ears pierced before her first birthday. All my girls had their ears pierced when they were younger and I’m no teenage mum.

The problem here is stereotyping. This person obviously doesn’t think that young girls should have their ears pierced and obviously thinks that teenage mums are irresponsible and don’t know what they are doing.

I’d love to chat with this woman to see what other ridiculous assumptions she has made.

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He should have gotten longer

I remember feeling so sad and heartbroken for Brian Corrigan when I first saw him on the evening news. He was in tears, begging the public to help find the person who killed his pregnant wife. I just couldn’t imagine the emotional pain this poor man was going through.

But it didn’t take long for the truth to come out. HE was the one who murdered his wife and tried to deceive everyone with his lies so he wouldn’t be caught. I felt sick! How can someone in their right mind kill their spouse, let alone killing her while she is 7 months pregnant with their baby?!

Corrigan was sentenced to up to 22 years jail but today was released, after only serving 16 years. Personally I don’t think that even 22 years is enough for taking someone’s life but hey, I’m no lawyer or judge or anything.

Just because someone is being a model prisoner should not influence the time they spend in jail. I think it’s just common sense that if someone is trouble, they will be good for a time to show that they CAN be good. My kids do the same thing. If they get into trouble at home and they get grounded for a week by me or Bill, they’ll be really well-behaved for the first few days in the hope that we will reduce their grounding. But I don’t care how well-behaved they are. I gave them a week because of what they had done and it sticks. Call me tough or whatever, but that’s what I do.

At Corrigan’s trial, he first claimed that it was an intruder that had killed his wife. When that wasn’t convincing, he then blamed the voices in his head. He had nothing to say as he walked free this morning.

HIs wife’s family must be shattered to hear that he has been released early. The Parole Authority should have given more attention to the family’s concerns and the murderer’s history of deception.

I am disgusted that this man has be allowed to walk free while his wife and unborn child’s lives were cut short.

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What are you thoughts on this?

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What goes around…..

I cannot stand liars! I’m talking about full-on pathological liars that have no ounce of truth ever come out of their mouths. I USED to know someone like that. She told me so many lies in the time that we knew each other that it got to the stage where I found it hard to even listen to her because I knew that whatever she was going to say was just a bunch of crap.

I don’t know why she does it. Does she do it for attention? Is her life that boring that she has to create a more interesting life for herself? Does she even KNOW that she’s doing it? There have been times that she must have forgotten a previous lie that she told me because she would tell me something totally different.

Slowly people are becoming aware of what she is really like, or maybe they already knew but like me, have kept their mouths shut and just let her go on. But it eventually comes to a time where enough is enough.

I don’t have time for people like that. I feel sorry for the people close to her that have to suffer falling outs with other friends and family. Does she not realise the damage she is causing.

Friend, you need to sit back and seriously think about what you are doing. The ones closest to you might put up with your continuous lies and then quietly watch you try to back track when you slip up, but as for me, I no longer have any time for you.

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Why would ya?!

Common sense! That is what is lacking in this world, seriously.

“Why is Tina’s husband holding a box of chocolates above his head?” I hear you ask. “I know that Tina has said that he’s weird before but ………”

The box of chocolates that we received from one of Madeline’s best friends had the chocolate selection printed on the bottom of the box.

Do you think that the chocolate manufacturers do this on purpose because they want you to eat ALL the chocolates and not look at the selection chart so you just pick your favourite ones?

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Average isn’t 2 adults, 2 kids anymore

Why is it, that when you buy a family ticket, it’s for 2 adults and 2 children?! Seriously, that isn’t an average family anymore!

With the Christmas/Summer holidays just a couple of weeks away, I’ve been collating some ideas for outings and things to do with the family.

One of the places on our list is Taronga Zoo. I checked out the website today and and as well as purchasing the "family ticket",  I will have to pay for 2 more adult tickets for William and Tiesha. Annabelle will get in for free.

It would be so much better for families if the "family ticket" was 2 adults and 3-4 children. Having more than 4 children makes it very expensive to go out and if the family ticket was changed, then you’d probably find that more families would go to these places.

What do you think? Should the family ticket be changed?

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No respect

Giorgia likes to sleep in on the weekends (sometimes). But every weekend, no fail, the kids up the road are knocking at our door early, asking if she can come out to play.

This morning was no different. I answered the door and told them that she was still sleeping. It seemed like it wasn’t even 10 minutes after I closed the door, that they were knocking on the door again!

Annoyed, I told them that Giorgia will come out when she’s ready to play and they can stop knocking on my door all the time. One of the kids sarcastically says "OK, Tina".

I’ve brought my kids up to respect adults and not to be rude. Instead of telling their kids the right thing to do, the parents of these kids start ignoring me when I see them and just say that Giorgia isn’t allowed to play at their house anymore.

Monkey see, monkey do.

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