Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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anti-bullying adviceIn Australia, every so often the high school system will come out with a new 'anti-bullying strategy'.
Some people might think that these strategies would involve, for example, children who bully other children being prevented from doing so.
In fact the last one I read about involved a series of 'witty' comebacks that children could give if they were being teased or bullied.
The fact that these comebacks were in fact incredibly prissy and shite is the least worst thing about them. I'm not sure how giving weak children the ability to outrage and humiliate people who are bullying them already is meant to help.
However, from what I can see these strategies are very successful in their aim of making educators feel like they have clean hands while doing fuck all.
Schools are meant to act 'in the place of the parent', and the school system tolerating bullying should be treated as seriously as a parent who allows one of their children to bully another.
(, Thu 26 Oct 2006, 17:07, Reply)
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