i think Like My Own is one of the most thoughtful and interesting programmes i've ever watched on local tv...e plots are actually different from the rest, and it leaves it there, with room for you to think...watch it! it's on thursday at 9..

i really loved the one 2day, it's about this mother with down syndrome, the father is normal, but the older child has down syndrome too, the younger child is too young to be diagnosed. perhaps it's a bit far-fetched and unrealistic, because i dun think it's very likely that a normal person would fall in love and marry someone with down syndrome...but well, u nv know..the social worker tries to take the children from the mother, as she's been assessed and deemed unsuitable to take care of the children. is intelligence the only gauge of one's ability to take good care of a child? is quality of care simply a matter of how smart one is? it's true tt you do need intelligence and common sense to take good care of a child, like thinking of possible dangers like hot water, long wires that might trip your child and keep them out of the way. but, i dun think that whether one is fit to be a parent is based solely or evenly largely on one's intelligence. capability, ability to love and care is not proportional to intelligence.

this makes me wonder, how about those dysfunctional families with parents who abuse their children mentally, emotionally, sexually and physically? these should be the children who require the most help, but i think the usual case is that the abused child only receives help if the abuse is obvious, usually physical or sexual abuse...are they fit to be parents then? but no one's going to care if they are or not...

perhaps that's the problem with our society, we just have fixed ideas of how things, people shd be. it makes us myopic, seeing only things we want to see, the way we want to see it and not the way things are. it makes us judge things according to our pre-conceived ideas of how things shd b, then we just act accordingly and dun really think abt how our actions affect other ppl? like auto pilot mode..