STOOOOOPID!!!!!
 

I decided to put this in parenting because...well, we all need a laugh. Thought about putting it in Humor, but it's actually not so much funny as it is strange. Almost put it in the general area, but well...I just thought putting it here was appropriate.


Don't know if anyone's heard of this (I heard it on the radio this morning), but there's a couple who, for the last 18 years, has been raising a CABBAGE PATCH KID as their son. NO shit. His name is Kevin, and they've got a college fund set up for him, he has his own 1000 square foot playroom, and his own real dog.

Uh huh. They even talk to this inanimate object, and talk back to themselves in his voice. IMO, they need to step AWAY from the crack pipe.:joint:

PRN cocktail, anyone?


Sidhe

A 1000 sq ft playroom...our current apartment is 805 sq ft.

Damn Creepy!

“I’ve wished a little bit of harm on Kevin. But I wonder if you stuck needles in him, would he really feel it?”

Reminds me of dogs or cats adopting favorite toys as children -- how very odd. Can anyone pick out the number of mental disorders, not the least of which is the want to be in the media spotlight, maybe?

Lester and "Cynthia" Gaba would be proud.

Pat said: “With every kid that you adopt, you promise to love them and be a good parent and take care of this child. And that’s what we did with Kevin.” She described the boy as “easy-going, quiet and well-behaved”.

Did anyone else hear the twilight zone music as they read that article? Thats some fucked up shit. And that the real daughter is jealous of the "kid", is the whole family mental? Lock them away somewhere before they snap and kill a whole bunch of people.

Oohhhh-kaaaay....the daughter being jealous of the doll isn't so weird because it sounds like her parent's are showering this doll with attention and opportunities that she didn't get, but what IS weird is how she seems to refer to it as her actual brother, just like her parents refer to it as their son.

I can't WAIT to see how this kid's going to 'go to college' and what he's gonna do for classes and frats and sports and so on. If his college rejects him for the football team because he's a DOLL, are they going to file a discrimination lawsuit?

But, in their defense, Kevin's probably a model child and easier to care for compared to one that lives, breathes, eats and wants to borrow the car.

Ask Candace Bergen what kind of special hell it is, to grow up playing 2nd fiddle to a doll. :(

This just sounds so macabre.

Wolf? Helloooo? We have a nut-case story here and we need your opinion.

Did anyone besides me notice that the source here is The Star? Not exactly a paragon of journalistic virtue.

If true, though, I'll bet they were really happy when they hallucinated the little guy's first words and steps.

I'm sorry. I'm on vacation, and have a hard time getting slang off the computer.

We have a very precise, technical term for people like this that we use at work a lot.

They are totally fucking nuts.

Although, looking at the picture that ran with the article, I can believe it.

Of course the local and national attention generated by this story is likely to cause some changes in these people's lives.

Neighbors will back away from them carefully and speak in soft tones.

And I wonder if their employers had any clue ...

I have had friends who have assigned voices and personalities to some of their teddy bears, but as far as I know they never regarded said bears as sentient, nor did they buy them much in the way of accessories, at least nothing more expensive than a Denny's Space Bear Digital Watch ($3.99 with purchase of any "Slam" breakfast, if I remember correctly).

When I watched Totally Obsessed on VH! yesterday, they showed a preview of an upcoming show featuring these nuts. Even though it's the sun, I've heard about these folks several times in the last week or so. Even if they're weird, it appears to be legit.

After just getting off a plane packed with children from HELL, I'm somehow thinking a cabbage patch kid isn't a bad option. At least they don't kick your seat, fight with their siblings and keep pressing the flight attendant call button. Thank GOD for alcohol on airplanes.

For them or for you?

It's a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this. Might've ruined a monitor. :D

Some people should not be allowed to have children. Where were the parents?

Those parents need to learn the finer points of taking kids on an airplane. The trick is this: let your kids loose in the airport. Let them run around, play and play WITH them during that time. Play as hard as the surroundings allow, so that when time comes for the flight, they're tired and will sit and be comparatively quiet or even sleep. A few couples did this last year on a flight back from the Bahamas I was on. It worked like a CHARM. Total of 8 kids on the flight and not a peep out of any of them the whole time.