Category: Personal Stories

Bullying

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This is beyond sad … and beyond angering. Where is this boy’s father?? These articles always quote the mothers. Where are the fathers??

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/us-world-news/bullying-concerns-after-boy-suffers-multiple-concussions-at-school-in-fairfax-county

On a separate note, teachers and administrators on notice of these problems in their schools should be held personally liable for these injuries if they did not take specified measures- as should parents of bullies who have been notified of the problem and don’t try to stop it.

House of Pain- Lyrics

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House of Pain

 

A little past supper-time
I’m still out on the porchstep sitting on my behind,
Waiting for you.

Wondering if everything is alright.
Momma said, “Come in boy, don’t waste your time.” I said, “I’ve got time.
Well, he’ll be here soon.”

Five years old and talking to myself.
Where were you? Where’d you go?
Daddy, can’t you tell?

I’m not trying to fake it
And I ain’t the one to blame.
There’s no one home
In my house of pain.
I didn’t write these pages
And my script’s been rearranged.
No, there’s no one home
In my house of pain

Wasn’t I worth the time?
A boy needs a daddy like a dance to mime and all the time
I looked up to you.

I paced my room a million times.
And all I ever got was one big lie, the same old lie.
How could you?

Well, I was eighteen and still talking to myself.
Where were you? Where’d you go?
Daddy can’t you tell?

I’m not trying to fake it
And I ain’t the one to blame.
There’s no one home
In my house of pain
I didn’t write these pages
And my script’s been rearranged.
No, there’s no one home
In my house of pain

And I’m alone again
Well, if I learned anything from this… It’s how to live on my own.
Songwriters: Howard Leslie Shore
House of Pain lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Jeff Bezos Never Knew His Negligent Father

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Jeff Bezos Never Knew His Negligent Father

Having an absent father can fuel grief, rage, failure … or it can compel you to develop boundless determination and attain untold success. It is up to you.

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-biological-father-2013-10

 

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Father’s Day, 2017

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As Father’s Day, 2017, closes in, remember that somewhere in your community is a youth who has no father to celebrate. If you know of such a boy or girl in your neighborhood, invite him or her to your home to join in on your Father’s Day festivities. You could change a life for good.

Any fool can make a baby, but it takes a real man to raise his child.
-John Singleton, Writer, Director

 

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Amy Peterson- A Great Parent

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Amy Peterson- A Great Parent

Amy Peterson, a single mom in Locust Grove, GA, dressed like a man to take her daughter, 6 year old Gracie, to the Father-Daughter Dance. The school did not let her in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4356742/Single-mom-dressed-dad-refused-school-dance-principal.html

Shame on Locust Grove Elementary School Administration.

Not having a father in her life has been difficult for Gracie in the past. Amy says that her daughter has been subjected to bullying by her kindergarten classmates at Locust Grove Elementary School.

‘Had one kid tell her she didn’t have a dad because she’s fat and ugly,’ Amy recalled.

The Henry County Schools district said in a statement obtained by WSB-TV that the dance announcement indicated that ‘in lieu of a dad’ any ‘family or friend or father-figure’ could attend. Yet Amy wasn’t the only mother who wanted to go to the dance to support a daughter, according to the school district — other mothers were informed of the dance rules and told they couldn’t attend either.

Call me, Gracie. I’ll take you next year! I’d be honored.
-Neil

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