If Your Life Were a Movie

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/magazine/23Videogame-t.html?ref=magazine
Article By: Jonah Weiner
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I'm not sure if many people ask themselves this anymore, but what do I know? What would youdo if your life were a movie? Or even a video game? Personally my life is hectic enough right now. Brock Enright, owner and creator of Videogames Adventure Services in Brooklyn has made it possible for you to answer this question, if you have a few grand to spare. It can cost anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 all depending on how complex the idea is. Now the scenario doesn't happen in some warehouse or something where your surrounded solely by actors and actresses. It happens on the streets, and there are many people involved. Brock  and a few of his freinds(who of course help/work for him) have quite a few connections, be it with the police, bars, cabbies, etc. Not to mention they have actors/actresses working for them. 

Once you start its hard to tell what is 'real' and what is a set up. Is that car/person really following you or is it one of the actor/actresses driving the car. THen again this all depends on what kind of scenario you paid for? did you want something actiony or something to rekindle the spark, nothing sexy, just something to bring you closer to your lover.

Me personally I like my life just as hectic as it is. I'll leave the movies to where they are supposed to be.

Is there such a thing as too much good parenting?

Well is there? I think so, lets start with some observations, today's children are becoming more and more sheltered and relaxed. Failing grades, bad behavior in the worst of cases. The punishment for such, well at the youngest age a timeout and harsh words if the parents is really 'stern'. Parents are becoming too worried about what others think or if their parenting style is politically correct, yes all parents want their child to be the best they can possibly be, but at what cost?

Spanking is bad,yelling at your child forget about it. Punishment is now time outs and loosing privileges for a week if that. Now at the risk of sounding racist, most of these punishments, at least to my observations are given out by Caucasian  parents', I'm not saying that any other race is a better parents, its just a simple observation.

Now according to the article, No More Mrs. Nice Mom, the Chinese are stricter than the Westerns, possibly the worlds strictest and meanest parents. Amy Chau, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,  a parenting-memoir and mother of an uncertain amount of children, once rejected her daughters hand made birthday card and told her,

“I don’t want this,” Chua says, in one particularly memorable moment, when her 4-year-old daughter, Lulu, gives her a birthday card that, the mother judges, couldn’t have taken “more than 20 seconds” to make. “I want a better one — one that you’ve put some thought and effort into. . . . I deserve better than this. So I reject this."

Now ask yourself how many parents that you know, or ask yourself if your a parent could you ever do that to your own child, or if a parent you know would do that.