Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Different Perspective On A Child's Needs":

While it was a fun read, I wonder how being elected as a town council member makes you an arbiter of child rearing? You may have opinions on how child should be raised, but like it or not this is not the 1960's anymore. Federal and provincial governments have legislated all sorts of laws to "protect" us. Seatbelts, bike helmets, no more lawn darts! Yes we all survived our youth, but this is not the same world that it once was. If you feel that you represent the electorate, perhaps you need to understand it first.

If I received your note, I think I would be offended first, angry second and then more resolute to get this process underway to get what I wanted.

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It's always interesting to observe another person's thought process.The foregoing is no exception.

It suggests that I must  understand the electorate before I offer an opinion..

Being elected does not  suffice to  indicate of my authority to speak for others.

On the other hand, a resident  not  elected is the one for council to follow.

A person comes to a public meeting,proceeds to the microphone to make  a point. For five minutes. choking  on her tears,she relays a disjointed  a tale of what might have been, had she not been on hand to prevent it.

But being on hand, she did not prevent it.

So the  responsible party for a near accident is obviously the municipality and the equipment provided for children older than her own,to play and learn.

The spectacle was  acutely embarrasing .  But the speaker who returned a second time with a four year old in her arms, coached to speak into a microphone. for even greater dramatic effect.

We live in a free and democratic country. People are free to choose  methods to get what they believe they should have. And risk making fools of themselves or the people who respond to the embarrassing nonsense. 

One of the most significant changes I have observed over the years is how willing the moderns to make horses asses of themselves to get what they want, however unreasonable it may be. .

"I want it . You will  do as  I say  because I want it"

"If you don't, I will call you names. Put forward  outrageous suggestions  such as coroner inquests to terrify  the gullible and demand the sensible step out of the way  If it doesn't work, I will demand you step down from office because you do not represent me"

"When all else fails, I will darkly refer to disrespecting a resident"

All in the name of dumbing down the electorate.