The parents on this jamrock who are trying valiantly to raise children to become decent adults, and the teachers who are tasked to provide learning and inculcate values to these children have a hard, hard time. Yeah, man, it rough! It's sort of unfair too.

It's rough on parents, guardians and teachers because they'll never be able to keep up or adequately compete with the multiplicity of delightfully disturbing distractions that modern life offers. In the face of YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Vine and the rest that I don't know about yet, teacher and parent lose long time when it comes to even just getting children's attention. It's really rough.

And, it's damn unfair to expect children to conduct themselves in a civilised manner and behave decently in public, when they constantly see adults exemplifying the opposite and getting acclaim and attention. It's unfair to expect kids not to fight, trace at the bus park, or bruck out at the back of the bus, when so many of the pretty people who come in newspaper and come on TV behave bad and still get big-up.

Is true man! Not all a dem, but some of the most beloved celebrities, entertainers, sports stars, politicians and other 'powerful' people behave bad with impunity, and seem to enjoy it too. So it's unfair to expect that children will not want to imitate and emulate such behaviour.

And, you know what's also unfair? It is unfair to have people aspiring to jobs that come with the title 'honourable' when their behaviour is anything but. And yes, I'm referring to our current prime example, the honourable member of the honourable House of Parliament, who represents the constituency of South West St Catherine, who regularly gets attention for allegedly unbecoming utterance and boorish behaviour. By now, the world must have heard the news of his latest act.

Listen nuh, I saw the picture in the online edition of a local newspaper which appears to show the fiery MP making obscene middle finger sign at journalists and JLP members who were gathered outside the party's Belmont Road headquarters to hear news about the special meeting. And, I said to myself, no man! That man who just 'sincerely' apologised after he verbally abused, or to use yard terms, 'bad up and wile up' a Gleaner intern last Friday, couldn't be flipping bird at people like that.

No peeps, he's bound to have some slightly logical, if not entirely plausible explanation for this. Last week, it was due to him not feeling well. This time, maybe it was all optical illusions. Maybe he was really making the 'V' sign and based on the angle of the shot it just happens to appear like it's a middle finger thing. Or if he really did it, maybe [again, due to his illness] his fingers and his brain are not communicating well you know. So although he was doing the 'V' sign, one finger, di forefinger mussi just accidentally drop dung and leave di miggle finger standing all alone!

Out of order

OK, I know you might now be giving me some serious kiss-teeth for being ridiculous, but I'm really grasping for the thin thread of possibility that maybe we are all just imagining it. The good gentleman couldn't be so militantly, arrogantly out of order. But then again, why couldn't he? What does he stand to lose in this time when crudity, crassness and cuss-cuss seem to be the in thing both a yard and foreign?

See Donald Trump! He's campaigning to run as the Republican candidate for US president and the more he utters the outrageous, offensive statements, the more his popularity grows in the polls. But as one of the women who has felt his verbal venom asked in a tweet, "how do you explain that to your children?"

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