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Will wrote:The high school student lecturing me about parenting!!!

Tafe student thankyou and there is no need to be a smartass, anyway you didnt answer my question

Crawf, I'll ask you this; why can't the parents of today say no, when the parents of previous generations could say no.

Will, life was alot different then. so i have no idea why your bringing that up.

I hope that this is not a result of the new neo-quasi-pseudo intellectuals who promote that saying no to children ruins their confidence and self esteem. What a load of shit!

No its not. When television is bombarded with fast food, snack food adds etc.. most kids are going to annoy the hell out of there parents to get them to buy it.

When kids go shopping with thier parents, its a nightmare in the making especially in supermarkets (ive lost count of how many times ive seen kids chuck a hissy fit - i feel very sorry for the parents, when this happens)

To be onest i think you have no right to say what parents shouldnt and should do. especially when your not a parent yourself.

Okay.. i think it's thread clean up time shortly.

crawf wrote:...When television is bombarded with fast food, snack food adds etc.. most kids are going to annoy the hell out of there parents to get them to buy it...

Kids don't need TV or magazine adverts to influence the way they eat. Bad parenting and peer pressure are the worst causes.

Solution
1. In the short term, governments legislate banning TV ads;
2. In the long term, reduce and eliminate offending foods.
3. Educate parents and children.

In the old days there wasn't any junk food, except for a few sweets that rotted peoples' teeth. Saying 'No' to kids is not wrong, but it would be best to say 'Yes' to them and telling them the consequences (obesity, diabetes, heart problems, kidney failure, blindness, bad teeth, etc., and maybe even death).

BTW, I'm a parent.

Cheers

Hot Really,

I think your solutions are plausible and correct...Whilst im not a parent iam a medical practitioner and would love nothing more than to see junk food ads dissapear and offending foods removed from sale...

This 'Rundle Convergence' idea is an interesting development. Some of you guys might remember HindleySt. corner with Morphett St (NE corner).It had a huge neon for Peter Styvesant smokes that lit up in the Las Vegas style. Really made it look like a city with life.

What I see is something of a replica of the concept at Rundle/Pulteney corner. I reckon it will add a new dimension of 'life'. (moving pictures etc) I have several times thought of one of the Squares being a feature area of this type of thing - maybe Hindmarsh.

crawf wrote:

Will wrote:The high school student lecturing me about parenting!!!

Tafe student thankyou and there is no need to be a smartass, anyway you didnt answer my question

Crawf, I'll ask you this; why can't the parents of today say no, when the parents of previous generations could say no.

Will, life was alot different then. so i have no idea why your bringing that up.

I hope that this is not a result of the new neo-quasi-pseudo intellectuals who promote that saying no to children ruins their confidence and self esteem. What a load of shit!

No its not. When television is bombarded with fast food, snack food adds etc.. most kids are going to annoy the hell out of there parents to get them to buy it.

When kids go shopping with thier parents, its a nightmare in the making especially in supermarkets (ive lost count of how many times ive seen kids chuck a hissy fit - i feel very sorry for the parents, when this happens)

To be onest i think you have no right to say what parents shouldnt and should do. especially when your not a parent yourself.

Rubbish, absolute rubbish. A good parent will switch the telly off if its a bad influence, and will spank their kids in the supermarket if they're misbehaving.

It's doing nothing and arty-farting around that brings about more misbehaved kids.

An application has been lodged with the ACC for:

*The demolition of the structure(s) currently on site at 416-420 King William Street

*For the erection of a 11 level building comprising ground floor retail, car-parking and office tenancies.

*Classified as Category 2, and is expected to cost $10 million.

*Height expected to be 40m.

Nice find Will. Is this south of Gilles Street?

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AtD wrote:Nice find Will. Is this south of Gilles Street?

I'm not exactly sure, but judging from the street number it most likely will be.

Geez, how many towers are going to be going up south of Victoria Square now? 5 possibly 6? Awesome!

Far out, seriously how many buildings are proposed at the moment, they just keep coming, dont they. My only question is why are so many being proposed, when i doubt that half will get built, cause i just cant see where the demand is gonna come from. Seriously we must have like close to 1/2 million m of office space proposed, approved or u/c. Unfortunatelly i believe the majority will not get built

The demand is coming from organisations that require Grade A quality offices. My work place has just begun a rather large shift from their traditional home on North Terrace, to sections of the CBD/Grenfell street for this reason, and they're may be looking at several other locations in the CBD also but as it stands nothing is really suitable.

my family part owns the block next to optus (derelict petrol station/carpark) and down the road we are looking at a 40m (10 story) mixed use building, still in the planning stage though.

another development for that side of town, wow...