QUOTE(Alison @ Mon 30th November 2009, 11:37pm)
Guys, will you just knock it off already (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/angry.gif) Not only are you getting all holier-than-thou about David Gerard, but you're also messing about with his family who have nothing to do with this.
Like I say, we'll remove the references if he asks, but he's got quite a few other things to remove himself, preferably
before he asks others to do likewise. And like GBG says, we're not referring to the little tyke directly...
Still, whenever I see things like that I'm reminded of the
Kathie Lee Gifford (T-H-L-K-D) story. In 1995 she wrote a book entitled
Listen to My Heart: Lessons in Love, Laughter, and Lunacy, essentially a memoir of her first 2-3 years raising her son Cody. Unfortunately, the book is little more than her fulminating at great length about how "cute" Cody is (or was), including his propensity to "poop" on things, such as (in most cases) himself.
You can still find the book on amazon.com, the page for which includes a
Publisher's Weekly review containing a reference to the poop-related content, and two hilarious (though short) customer reviews, one of which reads thusly:
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Poor Kathie Lee. Her book is designed to show us that she is such a sweet kind loving attentive mother. If you read the book with any degree of attention, you will see that she is a very disturbed woman, and that dear little Cody is well on his way to serial-killerdom.
In effect, Kathie Lee transferred her extreme-narcissistic psychological issues onto her son by proxy, published a book which inadvertently detailed it (without no self-realization whatsoever), and in so doing saddled the poor boy with an account of his childhood toilet-training issues that will follow him for the rest of his life.
Thankfully, there's no account of this book (or any of her other books) in Kathie Lee's Wikipedia article, nor is it mentioned on her personal website. Cody is now 19 and hopefully doing well, but who knows how much hell he had to endure growing up because of this?
I can only hope Dave, and other parents, learn from this and try to keep details of their children's development private. He wasn't doing a good job of that around the time of his own child's birth, but to be fair, he seems to have done a lot better since then.