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Thursday, July 14, 2005
What a state
I like listening to Mark Radcliffe on Radio 2 in the evening - he plays good music and has interesting chats with his guests. The trouble is he's on quite late, so I tend to just listen to a little bit whilst I'm getting ready for bed. This little bit usually coincides with the 11 o'clock news.
Last night's news started with the story about the London bombers, then went on to a suicide bombing in Iraq, then some other horrid things. I thought, bloody hell, the world's falling apart! And then I had to try and go to sleep. Compared with being blown up, having a bad night's sleep isn't too serious, but I don't think listening to such condensed misery is all that healthy.
And then I was reading the news this morning and I came across this story about a 10 year old boy who died whilst playing the choking game. Now this is sad, but kids do silly things without realising they're silly: that's what being a kid and learning and growing into an adult is about. Lots of kids die in silly ways. The thing that got me about this story was the adults.
""Though the so-called game is new to many adults, it's likely something that children have been doing for a long time", said Connecticut-based child psychologist Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, author of 'The Secret Language of Children: How to Understand What Your Kids are Really Saying.'"
You've seen 'Donnie Darko' right?
And then Nathan Hoiosen, a school resource officer with the Nampa Police Department, said "You wish you could just take the kids and shake them and say, 'What are you thinking?"'
Flipping heck: if the kids are choking themselves to death, and the adults need psychologists to interpret what those kids that are still alive are saying, whilst trying to shake some sense into them... the world really is falling apart.
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