wow factor

Christmas theme this year is.. The Family That Plays Together, Stays Together, so we got the kid a Wii.

However, we now qualify for the 2008 Bad Parenting Award.

We opened his Wii a week early, purely for parental testing purposes.

Once we knew he was sound asleep, we connected it to the home entertainment system and had a ball.

Then came time to pack it all up like new.
We said stuff it,and decided we would describe the new disk drive next to the Telly as a modification to the system.

Then the questions started.
"Is that a Playstation?", "What's it do for the Telly?" etc etc.

In the end we fessed up.

Our new strategy was, Ok this is just a machine and for Xmas, if your good, you might get some really cool games.

So the upshot is he loves the standard pack and bonus Sports pack and we hope that Xmas Day will be just as exciting when he opens Mario Kart and the Cars games, if his Mum can stop playing Pool.

Today David_Hicks became a free man, with some control order limitations.

During the six year saga a few good people emerge with dignity. David’s father is the one I admire most.

Terry Hicks interview with Amnesty International Australia

It’s not a responsibility really, it’s something you have to do. As a parent I say to people I just hope to hell you would do the same for your kids. People come up to me and say, ‘I’ve got kids and I would not know what to do in your circumstances’, and I say to them, you’d be surprised how you get that resonance out of yourself. You just pull it out from somewhere and you just keep going because they’re your kids and you stand by them. If your kid commits murder, or runs drugs or whatever, you stand by them. If you don’t you’re not a parent.

Michael_Mori also stands tall for his principled defence of Hicks.