What do you know? I found something to write about. Hard to ignore this little piece of heaven. I reiterate my previous statement that some people are not fit to be parents. Take this most recent example:
A judge granted a two-year diversion Tuesday to a Rogers woman accused of throwing her infant six feet across the room onto a chair and saying, “I’ll kill that child if it don’t stop crying.”
The child’s name? Janie Jo. Poor grammar, poor mothering skills, naming your daughter Janie Jo: how redneck can one person get? Worse, I’m sure, but for our purposes today this one rates pretty high on the redneck scale. I wonder if they lived in a trailer? That would just cement the redneck theory wouldn’t it?
Rather than centre solely on the redneck-edness of this woman, let’s focus for a minute on the fact that she threw her 4-week old child across the room. I’ve seen plenty of screaming children and, yes, the frustration may cause you to think about doing something like this but a decent person would never, ever, EVER do it.
It would cost an awful lot of money but perhaps there can be a vetting system of some sort for parents. When you get pregnant or start trying for a child (what seems blatantly obvious to me in this case is this poor child was probably not planned) you must go to a vetting procedure. You are given a screaming child and locked in a room for, oh let’s say, 2 hours. If you can manage to calm the child, ignore the child or in any other way NOT harm it then you pass. Throwing it across the room is do not pass go, do not collect $200. Get out of the room now, go down the hall, get sterilised, thank you and have a nice day. I think it’s a brilliant plan but, unfortunately, not in any way feasible. Oh well, one can always dream.