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Ed Pawlowski

On 8/13/2017 12:44 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 4:22:00 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 8/13/2017 8:56 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2017-08-13 7:40 AM, Janet wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> says...
>>>
>>>>> his 60th birthday. It was a nice hot summer day and he hosted the event
>>>>> as his ski chalet. My cousin catered it. My son, about 16 at the time,
>>>>> and one of his cousins had some fun at her expense. They would get some
>>>>> food, take a bit out of it, leave it on a plate and then step back and
>>>>> watch for her to come along and eat the leftover bits. She was like a
>>>>> seagull, swooping in and eating the food people had left on their
>>>>> plates.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any insight at all into your own behaviour?
>>>>
>>>> Your neice is mentally ill. You criticise your sister for not
>>>> controlling her mentally ill daughter.
>>>
>>> Slight correction.... it is my sister in law's daughter. I did not
>>> criticize SiL for not controlling her daughter. Her daughter is now in
>>> her late 50s. She has an eating disorder, a personality disorder that
>>> she has failed to address on her own. It is not a mental illness. She
>>> is morbidly obese and diabetic, and had to have hip replacement in her
>>> 50s. Other than that, she is fully functioning. She is gainfully
>>> employed and takes night courses.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yet you, as a parent, completely failed to control your son's
>>>> disgusting behaviour when he literally baited, "had fun with"
>>>> her mental illness.
>>>
>>> They had fun with her compulsive eating and her apparent enjoyment of
>>> stealing food. It was buffet meal. If she wanted more chicken nuggets
>>> she could have gone to the table and taken fresh food. She was stealing
>>> half eaten food from other people's plates.
>>>
>>>
>>>> You should be ashamed of him, and your own parenting.
>>>
>>> Really? I have to admit that it was interesting to watch. The two
>>> teenage cousins were very subtle about it. They would take a bite out
>>> of a piece of food and then set it on a plate and walk away, and within
>>> minutes she would come along and take the half eaten food that was
>>> sitting on a plate in the sun.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It really was not nice to do that, but it is what teenagers do. My kids
>> would have done it too. That is the reality of life.
>
> Really? I'd be disappointed if my kids pulled a stunt like that because that would mean they were evil pricks. It's not good to be an evil prick.
>

I'm jealous. Your kids were perfect, mine had defects.