Happy Mothers Day!

Ah mothers day. A day where many people celebrate who has cared or looked after them. Or it's a day you think is a capitalist money making day. Or you don't care. As Stuff share: "The concept of celebrating motherhood dates to the ancient Greeks, who paid tribute to Rhea (the mother of the gods) and motherhood in springtime, which was considered the most fertile time of the year. We owe the modern celebratory day to an American woman called Anna Jarvis, who campaigned to make it official in remembrance of her mother. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother's Day a national holiday. Ironically, Jarvis later tried to stop Mother's Day after it became commercialised and more than just a day of sentiment."

This mothers day Statistics New Zealand have some excellent facts to share. In New Zealand the average baby weight over the pass decade was 3.5 kg. Considering a normal baby weight is 2.7-4 kg, this is excellent. In 2008, 87 percent of all women also thought their health was generally good, very good, or excellent.

Unfortunately many mothers still feel overworked. According to a independent AMP research report, while fathers are doing more house work than they use to mothers still feel they aren't doing their fair share. As for solo mothers who happen to be beneficiaries, they're facing discrimination from their own government. What's also startling is that they face it from someone who's been a beneficiary herself. Paula Bennett also plans to force mothers into work that may not be appropriate for them. Many mothers want to work and get good pay so they can provide for their families. Cutting the benefit to mothers who wont comply puts them and their childs lives in jeopardy.

There is still discrimination against gay couples who can't adopt. Considering there are already gay couples in New Zealand raising children and many who'd make great parents it's a shame they still face discrimination. Discrimination from groups like familyfirst who believe in only putting married heterosexual parent families first. We also have real problems with child poverty and child abuse in this country which are both interconnected.

The good thing is that these problems are solvable. As a society New Zealand does not have to be this way. It can support our parents, mothers, fathers, maori, european, gay, straight, disabled and everything in between. The children of Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world do not have to suffer the problems of our past.

I hope you'll have a good Mothers day, everyday.

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

One normal and two weird dreams I had last night

First dream was about a place called Barrington House. It was on my street. 10 people lived in it and it had one carer. This carer also had a masters in art. The other nine people had a intellectual disability of some form, but were able to live together. They'd spend a lot of their day making and doing art activities together. Sometimes they'd work on art projects and sell them at auctions so they could get money for their house.



Second dream was about Croc 3 for playstation. If you don't know what Croc was it was a platforming 3D videogame with a cute crocodile for the videogame console called playstation. You might not understand much of this dream unless you were/are a playstation gamer so you could skip to the next dream. Anyway they made Croc 3 for playstation. They tried to rip off Zelda: Ocarina of Time and gave Croc a hammer to attack enemies with. It was on a island with four areas and a tall large tower in the middle. The tower and areas all had their own nameless levels too. It was going to have a psuedo free-roaming element. But instead of it being a big world, the levels would be connected by paths that were pretty much nameless less challenging levels. There was a deep lake area and this lake was also a well. There was a desert and volcano area. There was a large gigantic forest area with huge plants. So Croc 3 was pretty much a bunch of levels stuck together. In the game they made it very similar to Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Like the way you'd attack a enemy or the enemy sounds. There were hundreds of Gobbos in each area, it was like a collectathon. Each area also had native Gobbo inhabitants. Fisherman Gobbos, Indian Gobbos, Cave gobbos and Tribesman gobbos. It seemed like it wouldn't be big enough to fit on the PS1game disc. But it wasn't good enough to be on the PS2, graphically.

The third dream had superman making a life or death decision. He had what was called the spear of life. If he killed somebody now, in 1000 years they'd be ressurected. Or that's what was meant to happen. The world was in crisis and needed superman. But there was no guarantees there'd be any superheroes in the future. Almost all the heroes wanted one of them to be around in 1000 years. Superman was deciding between the flash and wonder woman. Batman refused to participate and said "I don't believe in fairytales."