It's time to get your son a MAN'S childrens' book

[LoZoccolo]

Poll question: It's time to get your son a MAN'S childrens' book

like Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel

Is this post offensive?

[Heidi]

1. Not yet offensive, but in the spirit of this evening in The Lounge,

please continue.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Steamed shovel clams?

:D

[Heidi]

4. :D

[leeroysphitz]

3. Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel FUCKIN rocks for boys and for girls.

Any parent should be proud to pass on that industrious, hard working message.

But Where did Mike go to the bathroom that whole time?

[Whisp]

5. or Donald Rumfelds Shock and Awww, Ma.

[Hissyspit]

6. I LOVED mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel when I was a kid.

Mainly for the artwork.

[FloridaJudy]

7. Nah. Buy him Ulysses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4xrf1YOpo

[LoZoccolo]

8. Finnegan's Wake, lol. n/t

[Bucky]

9. You're striking out on the old offensiveness, LoZocc. If you want an offensive kids' book

suggest that DUers should go out and buy William Bennett's Book of Values.

[LoZoccolo]

10. Hmmmm I wasn't really thinking of making the childrens' book offensive.

More the notion that your son needs a "MAN'S childrens' book". I do know of one I was offended by the idea of though:

http://www.amazon.com/Just-wait-til-were-diamond/dp/B0006RZQXI

This childrens' book is - no lie - for children of people involved in Amway™. ("Diamond" is a rank in the Amway™ system.) It teaches children to be patient with their parents while they go to Amway™-related* seminars and meetings because one day they are going to be rich! I haven't actually read it, but I've heard about it, so I can't really say much about it, but there you have it.

* This asterisk is here to note that many meetings and seminars people attend while they are involved in Amway™ are not put on by Amway™, but by people who are building their own motivational organizations geared for people involved in Amway™. There is an entire industry of people making their own motivational seminars.

[LoZoccolo]

11. I found a reference to it on the web.

Somebody wrote a free e-book about their bad experience and mention the book twice in it:

We wanted to be able to take care of our parents and take trips with them. We read the book Just Wait Until We’re Diamond over and over to our kids. It was children’s book that talked about the lifestyle they would enjoy as Diamond kids. They were very excited about all we were working for. They would look at the book while we were both off at late night meetings and gone for weekends to seminars. They, too, put off and delayed many parts of their life, because we were so busy working to get to Emerald and Diamond for them. They had spent a great deal of time with babysitters. We had learned the principle of delayed gratification from the system and taught it to them. A couple that we were friends with went Diamond, and they brought their kids on stage and recognized them as part of their team. There were thousands in attendance and not a dry eye in the house when they played a tape of the young daughter’s voice mail message to her dad saying that she believed in him and knew that he was a Diamond. He had used his cell phone and listened to that over and over on the way to meetings.

and

We did not speak negative to each other about The Business, but we did find relief in venting to one another about the near insane acts of members of our upline. The rest of the disappointments, we both just internalized. I kept repeating to Kathy what I believed to be true. “We’re almost there, honey. Please trust me, please believe in me.” She did, and her faith kept me going. Once when I was away, she helped each of the kids put together a little picture book of their drawings. They had misspelled titles, in crayon and marker like ‘Why we are going Dimond,’ and they had pictures drawn of a nice home with a pool and other things we promised them as Diamond kids. They had been reading the system book Just Wait Til We’re Diamond and knew what to expect. Those pictures melted my heart and drove me to a more frenzied pace.

http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~dst/MerchantsOfDeception/files/MerchantsOfDeception.pdf

I'm not on this big thing against Amway, but it does seem like there are a lot of people disillusioned with it, a lot of horror stories. I grew up in Grand Rapids, MI which is close to the headquarters but I didn't know many people involved with it.

[jmowreader]

12. That's not a MAN'S children's book

It's a great book, but the Shooters Bible or a Detroit Diesel service manual would be a MAN'S children's book.