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>>>Well done Nelly well said !!!! we speak the same >>>language.... >> >>me too >> >>Back in the day....the "persecution" of the 1980s when >>some of us were kicking up a bit of a stink about life >>for children in the community (which is where the vast >>majority of the membership lived in those days), three >>were articles in the tabloids about how Christmas was >>regarded as evil and was prayed against and chuildren >>didn't get presents etc.... >> >>....so Dave Resolute and others cooked up a classic >>bit of misinformation by telling the press that, on >>the contrary, the children in community would be >>having a special day of games and jollity....but as >>John and others can tell you, Xmas was like any other >>day. >> >>A few years ago when I was in touch with the local JA >>household, I was told that they were going to do >>something different...and I wondered if things had >>changed! But it turned out they filled a minibus with >>brothers and sisters, drove up to Snowdonia, where it >>was bitterly cold, slept in the bus seats with the >>engine running for warmth, then the next day, went for >>a walk, had a sausage roll or two and then drove back. >>I think doing nothing sounded better. >> >>I am not unsympathetic with their view of Xmas - if >>you are an adult. I felt relieved not to have to take >>part....but it is different for kids. Christmas us >>really about kids...so being a kid in the JA must be >>miserable at that time of year, especially for the >>very many kids who will have some recollection of a >>more festive time. > > >thanx guys for the feedback,youve convinced me that i >havent been living in a parallel universe were this >sorta shyte is normal.yeah pete,agree xmas is a non >event for us adults,but for children,a big thing,which >is why i swear now these scum[because make no >bones,thats what the ones still in there right minds >are,too make a childs life so different and freakish >to there little mates lives]will no longer be an issue >for me.theyve pressurised my child into feeling so bad >for spending xmas with us last year]in what they would >term a 'material'way] that they[the child]has informed >me,at the very last minute,after talking about it all >year that theyre choosing to spend xmas with the >ja.even the way in which my child told me sounded like >theyd been coacfhed by the ja's prize >spokesperson![and after some carefull conversations >has admitted such]is there anyone here that would be >prepared to consider being an 'expert witness' sort of >thing,on their experiences with the ja and how >children are expected to live[john smiths account very >much brought it home,among others]when this custody >case comes to court?not to vouch 4 me in any way but >to discredit there inevitable bullshit?
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