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It is SO cool to be a parent!
I love it! So many little things that my kids do make me so proud, from colouring a picture, to learning a dance, to getting a badge from Brownies.
So when I announced that this summer we, as a family, were thinking about taking a road trip to New York City, my oldest daughter’s eyes went wide with excitement.
Why?
Because she would get to see the New York Public Library!
My 8 year old daughter, interested in a place with books? Millions of them!
I was stunned, and proud that my little girl was already showing signs of academic promise that would no doubt, lead to Honour Rolls, scholarships, and a high paying job!
But before I could put her on a pedestal for the world to see, she announced why she wanted to go……
‘the Ghostbusters fought the librarian ghost there!’
She’s right, they did! It happened in the first Ghostbusters movie, and it happened in the Ghostbusters video game Santa got her for her Sony PSP.
My daughter has NO desire to crack open a book there, just wants to see where Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler used their proton packs to subdue an unhappy spirit!
I am so proud!
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Speaking of video games, can you believe this?
An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch (40 cm) kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.
Why did this guys son attack him?
Police said the argument broke out when the 46-year-old offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play, and then turned the television off in response to his son’s behaviour.
The game had been given to Mario a few days earlier, as a birthday present, and what do you think the teen was playing to send him into a furious rage?
According to his mother;
“Mario is obsessed. He’s forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn’t want him playing violent games.”
Soccer! The guy was playing soccer!!!!!
Should’ve bought him Mortal Kombat!
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You know, sometimes rules are made to be broken.
I read in the Kitchener Record, a story about Tucker Patterson, a terminally-ill 3 year old who couldn’t join his family for a Sunday skate at a Hamilton arena because wheelchairs were not allowed on the ice.
I’m not knocking the arena staff, rules are rules, but come on!
The Toronto Maple Leafs seem to think the same as me.
The team has invited Tucker and his family to their practise on Tuesday.
“They are going to watch the Leafs skate, watch the L.A. Kings skate, then hopefully we can get a couple guys to give a quick meet and greet,” said Leafs community partnerships representative Jason Schwabe.
He says Tucker can also be pushed on the ice in his wheelchair after the practice at the Air Canada Centre.
Tucker is dying from a rare genetic disorder called Leigh’s disease, which has taken away his ability to eat, talk and walk.
Tucker will be as much a normal little boy as everyone else when he’s wheeled to the same spot where the likes of Sidney Crosby, Steve Yzerman, & Mario Lemieux faced off.
I wouldn’t be able to speak either.