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Date: 2020-Jun-26, Friday 04:35 (UTC)In a more realistic sense, recently we have had some new rental-house neighbors move in across the street. My father is having a lot of trouble with just accepting them and minding his own business. I am really impressed with his level of tolerance for a lot of things despite a lot of ingrained American Southern Christian traditional values stuff that makes it impossible for him to consider a different point of view on the acceptability of, say, homosexuality or being transgender. My dad is a pastor, and I respect him, but he is very much a product of our region and his time.
The woman across the street does make it kind of difficult to appreciate her as a neighbor. She is a white woman with Black mixed-race children, and you can't help but feel bad for them because most of her parenting seems to be sending them into the yard to play and yelling at them when they don't do what she wants them to do. They really need more instructive attention, even though right now they're at ages where their behavior is completely normal kid-stuff. I just can't help but agree that they seem a bit neglected-by-mistake/ignorance. And the woman constantly has a flow of different men in and out of the house, and again my tendency is not to judge people if they choose to have loose or open relationships, and I don't know what the relationships with these men even are, but it really concerns me when people with young children have a great number of different adults who appear to not have a clear established authority or lack thereof in the house.
But my dad's issue is, like, their hip hop and R&B blaring when a car pulls up in the driveway. And I have tried to tell him that this is really no different from him playing his guitar on the front porch, but he seems to associate that genre of music with a "lifestyle" he disapproves of.
But I want to see those kids' lives come to good, even if their mother lives in ways that I don't think are very good for them.