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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 128819" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>well, in any event.......</p><p>Buffy does not handle crowds very well. She is quite skittish. Grief is one emotion, but hate is yet another, and that would prolly throw her back quite a bit.....</p><p>Young son is not fond of police. A freinds dad in police uniform grabbed him and shook him just about a year ago, and for now he is still skittish around police in uniform. I do not think I need to put him around a sitution where police presence might be heavy, and possibly being physically, no matter the reason. Son is already trying to cope with the mall shooting and we will be going there in 2 weeks.....and I AM takinghim to that mall------</p><p>My youngest bro, who would be the biggest reason we were gonna go to this service----he does not say one way or another but scuttlebutt he is gay. His orientation means not one whit to me.....BUT becuz we had been estarnged for so long before our mom died, I do not know how HE might react in this mess, either. And my nephew is a hothead. </p><p>ANd I had been torn becuz the 2 services todaay (unrelated to each other) were already complicated and confuseing to make it to both....</p><p>but gosh who needs t go to TWO funerals in one day for persons under 20 years old? Thats a LOT of very high emotion. </p><p>Now, I have msotly kept the TV off and also kinda not left our newspaper around, and have been advocating the kids to let their cell phones rest.....and today I find out the shooters girlfriend is from here. I guess at the moment "I" am overloaded.and I am not ready to know if the shooters girlfriend is a friend or aqcuaintance of my kids. :-( </p><p>Seems like this area where I live has suddenyl and intensely required several intense home conversations of magnitudes I sure have not been ready for. Too much too close togehter. Mall shootings at the mall we go to, Missing wives of police husbands, Univ shootings, creepy hate groups.....s-e-x-ual orientation.....</p><p>our nurseing home here has been in our news, 1 I worked in several years for possible "mercy killings" and "cops gone wild" has been in forefront in a big way here, as well......</p><p>Sure, I talk to my kids a LOT already----but talking about these things and haveing them all happening right here with people we know persoanlly day to day- it is too much, too fast....</p><p>and anyway, my kids have been to far too many funerals especially for their own peers already in their short lives........I think this one, this time, we will just skip. </p><p>I do not want to further jeopardize their already tenuous frames of minds. </p><p></p><p>Then just to add to it? My son heard one of the victims sufered an eye iinjury, and now he is wondering if he will see her at HIS eye surgeons...(plus he wondered if the eye doctor would remember this time that he did not lose HIS eye to fireworks or guns) </p><p></p><p>THis all may be "the real world" and I have NEVER been one to shelter my kids from anything......but, for once.....I guess I am. Cuz it is just REALLY intense here right now......just SO much, so many many incidents etc. I just at the moment cannot even fathom how to add in a hate group, too. Yeesh, our dinner conversations the last couple months have been hard enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 128819, member: 1697"] well, in any event....... Buffy does not handle crowds very well. She is quite skittish. Grief is one emotion, but hate is yet another, and that would prolly throw her back quite a bit..... Young son is not fond of police. A freinds dad in police uniform grabbed him and shook him just about a year ago, and for now he is still skittish around police in uniform. I do not think I need to put him around a sitution where police presence might be heavy, and possibly being physically, no matter the reason. Son is already trying to cope with the mall shooting and we will be going there in 2 weeks.....and I AM takinghim to that mall------ My youngest bro, who would be the biggest reason we were gonna go to this service----he does not say one way or another but scuttlebutt he is gay. His orientation means not one whit to me.....BUT becuz we had been estarnged for so long before our mom died, I do not know how HE might react in this mess, either. And my nephew is a hothead. ANd I had been torn becuz the 2 services todaay (unrelated to each other) were already complicated and confuseing to make it to both.... but gosh who needs t go to TWO funerals in one day for persons under 20 years old? Thats a LOT of very high emotion. Now, I have msotly kept the TV off and also kinda not left our newspaper around, and have been advocating the kids to let their cell phones rest.....and today I find out the shooters girlfriend is from here. I guess at the moment "I" am overloaded.and I am not ready to know if the shooters girlfriend is a friend or aqcuaintance of my kids. :-( Seems like this area where I live has suddenyl and intensely required several intense home conversations of magnitudes I sure have not been ready for. Too much too close togehter. Mall shootings at the mall we go to, Missing wives of police husbands, Univ shootings, creepy hate groups.....s-e-x-ual orientation..... our nurseing home here has been in our news, 1 I worked in several years for possible "mercy killings" and "cops gone wild" has been in forefront in a big way here, as well...... Sure, I talk to my kids a LOT already----but talking about these things and haveing them all happening right here with people we know persoanlly day to day- it is too much, too fast.... and anyway, my kids have been to far too many funerals especially for their own peers already in their short lives........I think this one, this time, we will just skip. I do not want to further jeopardize their already tenuous frames of minds. Then just to add to it? My son heard one of the victims sufered an eye iinjury, and now he is wondering if he will see her at HIS eye surgeons...(plus he wondered if the eye doctor would remember this time that he did not lose HIS eye to fireworks or guns) THis all may be "the real world" and I have NEVER been one to shelter my kids from anything......but, for once.....I guess I am. Cuz it is just REALLY intense here right now......just SO much, so many many incidents etc. I just at the moment cannot even fathom how to add in a hate group, too. Yeesh, our dinner conversations the last couple months have been hard enough. [/QUOTE]
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