Anybody remember DARE?[1] Well, it applies to you PARENTS, and not just your kids.
Dear Child In The Back Seat: Your days of whining for the Strawberry Shortcake Happy Meal toy you saw on TV may be numbered. At least in California.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a lawsuit today against McDonald's in state court in California to stop the company from advertising toys with Happy Meals.
The group filed the class action suit on behalf of parents, including plaintiff Monet Parham, a 41-year-old mother of two from Sacramento who says she's fed up with the pestering.
Monet Parham clearly didn't have a DARE program in her high school, or she would've learned how to JUST SAY NO. It's not hard, especially when YOU ARE THE PARENT and HAVE ALL OF THE MONEY and THEY ARE THE CHILD and HAVE NO MONEY. You know what you can do when you are the parent? JUST. FUCKING. SAY. NO.
And if they pester you about it, you punish them until they learn to SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. about it.
Why any of this is a difficult concept for Monet Parham, I'm REALLY not sure. The one thing I am sure of, as it is quite clear, now: some parents simply feel the need to sue somebody instead of, I dunno, BEING A PARENT AND TAKING SOME FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY.
I guess when passing a law fails,[3] lawsuits are a good backup. After all, we live in the land of frivolous lawsuits![4]
America: Home of the stupid.
Dear Child In The Back Seat: Your days of whining for the Strawberry Shortcake Happy Meal toy you saw on TV may be numbered. At least in California.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a lawsuit today against McDonald's in state court in California to stop the company from advertising toys with Happy Meals.
The group filed the class action suit on behalf of parents, including plaintiff Monet Parham, a 41-year-old mother of two from Sacramento who says she's fed up with the pestering.
Monet Parham clearly didn't have a DARE program in her high school, or she would've learned how to JUST SAY NO. It's not hard, especially when YOU ARE THE PARENT and HAVE ALL OF THE MONEY and THEY ARE THE CHILD and HAVE NO MONEY. You know what you can do when you are the parent? JUST. FUCKING. SAY. NO.
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Why any of this is a difficult concept for Monet Parham, I'm REALLY not sure. The one thing I am sure of, as it is quite clear, now: some parents simply feel the need to sue somebody instead of, I dunno, BEING A PARENT AND TAKING SOME FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY.
I guess when passing a law fails,[3] lawsuits are a good backup. After all, we live in the land of frivolous lawsuits![4]
America: Home of the stupid.
1. Nancy Reagan's terrible idea of an anti-drug program. Yeah, JUST SAY NO! That works every time, I tell you!
2. NPR article
3. San Francisco kids rejoice after outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoes city's McDonald's Happy Meal ban
4. When the government fails, people must take things into their own stupid, stupid hands...
2. NPR article
3. San Francisco kids rejoice after outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoes city's McDonald's Happy Meal ban
4. When the government fails, people must take things into their own stupid, stupid hands...
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