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<p>Except for simple factual errors or misinformation, I don’t feel it’s my job to “correct” anything. But that doesn’t give others, be they teens or adults, carte blanche to be deliberately insulting and obnoxious. If some random teenager (or adult) came over and sat at your table in a restaurant or other public place and started insulting you, you would not be out of line to ask them to leave.</p>
<p>Parents Cafe Forum Rallying Cry:</p>
<p>Never trust anyone under 30!</p>
<p>LOL. I tell the kids to water down everything they hear from us old farts! I must have missed the Rallying Cry Meeting?</p>
<p>I don’t know, I think it is a bad idea…still, there are, within these quarters, such mixed signals on “diversity,” fair play and keeping your chin up. </p>
<p>As TheDad says, a poster should “receive no different treatment on account of her age.”
Sound reasoning. </p>
<p>I suppose, that is, no matter how aged she turns out to be. And yet Sokkermom rightly notes that “some adults are offended by” …well, this that and the other thing…while still noting that the parent’s café is “not a ego-building molly-coddling place.” Hmmm, now, who could argue with that? The latter point being limited to those who–perhaps with age–become more accustomed to “molly-coddling” and “ego-building.”</p>
<p>Anyhow, it’s clearly a bad-idea. What’s next, just letting any poster show up at tea time? Fat chance: as has been said, not every poster fits the description of “the kind of people I’d actually like to sit and have a cuppa tea with in person…people just seem to be nicer elsewhere.” </p>
<p>Ah, but hath not a student hands, organs dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with he same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer as a parnet is?</p>
<p>…aye, there’s the rub.</p>
<p>Translation: </p>
<p>Lay off the kids?</p>
<p>Ah, FS, you are up for the Cafe Challenge. Don’t ever change.</p>
<p>Nah, lay off the parents. :)</p>
<p>Original rallying cry:
Having failed miserably with original rallying cry; Rallying cry revised:
…whew, that was a close one. Not for nothing remembered as the “me-generation.” ;)</p>
<p>Too late for that first rallying cry. We already older than dirt. What about:</p>
<p>“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!” props to * Kath and Kim*</p>
<p>Older than dirt? Piffle! I think we are aged like a fine wine.</p>