insanity...

[chelidon]

Taste for Space Is Spawning Mansions Fit for a Commoner (subhed: Hot Housing Market Opens Doors to Mini-Taj Mahals)

This is so totally wrong. The amount of waste involved with one of these monstrosities is completely insane. But that's the American Dream..,

...which, no matter what I do or don't think about it, will almost certainly come crashing to a halt as energy prices spiral upwards. I have to admit, I do like big houses, but my thinking is more along the lines of how many people I could fit in it.

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[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

This paragraph is really telling.

""We have a media room in the basement, a pool table and a moon bounce, so I don't have to take the kids out and fight traffic," said Skinner, 32, a former art director who lives there with her husband; their two children; and, at times, family and friends who come on weekends. "We enjoy it more when the kids come here and play. Specifically, I'm weird, but I'm supersensitive to the kids getting snatched. Like at Chuck E. Cheese, I have to constantly watch them." "

WTF??? She apparently never lets her kids out of her sight??? What are they going to do once they turn 18?

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Yep, just another sign of the sickness that passes for "normal." And besides the paranoia (you don't feel like your kids are safe outside? MOVE!), how can keeping yer kids locked away from the world be a good thing? Bleah.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

And ironically, by keeping her little darlings smothered, the poor kids will not only grow up with no street smarts, but will probably be rebellious and want to try everything that Mommy said is "bad". That combination could be seriously harmful to them when they hit their teenage years.

[eeedge.livejournal.com]

I've been really pleased with our current neighborhood. I can let my 4 year old and my 7 year old out together by themselves, as long as I listen for the screams when one of them scrapes a knee or the like.

When we moved into the house, though, our landlord offered to have the dead (horizontal) tree removed from the woodsy section so that the children couldn't hurt themselves climbing on it. I had to refuse, as I think that a small element of peril is vital to a healthy child.

I cannot imagine trying to watch them/entertain them/protect them 100% of the time. Those sorts of children are the ones I see every day who never get to speak because their mummies are speaking for them.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

And those kids are the ones taken advantage of by the "bad kids" who have street smarts. Not to mention the fact that they are often YEARS behind in the self-reliance department once they are adults.