Things that annoy me about OTHER children's parent's

[Dragonsreach]

Once again I quote an accurate fountain of wisdom:

[FONT=&quot]Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. [/FONT]

Robert A Heinlien.


Don't have any kids, but do have 5 neices, 3 Nephews and 7 Great Nieces with another 2 babies due this year.
By no means were (or are) they angels 100% of the time , but they all understand the need and application of limits and controls.

 

[Legacy Account]

Once again I quote an accurate fountain of wisdom:

[FONT=&quot]Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. [/FONT]

Robert A Heinlein.

That's a great quote. One of my favourite authors is Heinlein

 

[DXM]

It's not crappy behaviour that bothers me about kids. Their kids, that's their job. It's when the parents just either ignore it or WORSE act like it's no big deal 'cause it's what kids do. It takes very little effort from a parent to make me happy. A simple "Knock it off" or whatever. Something!

I completly agree. I work in retail and what bothers me are parents that can not control or will not control their kids.
Example, a dad and kid walk into the shop. The kid tears off and starts touching and pulling things off the shelf. Grabbing things off the shelf and bring it to his dad to buy.The dad with his Starbucks coffee brouses the shelves and the kid takes off again dropping the item on the closest shelf, dad doesn't say a thing.I eye the kid trying to stand on a shelf to grab a toy on one of the upper pegs.I tell the kid he shouldn't do that, you might get hurt. He looks at me and tried again, I repeated the warning.The kid finally gets down and grabs a lower toy and tears off again to his dad. Dad's answer...That nice buddy and the kid drops the item on the floor next to his dad. No comment from the dad. The kid does this for the next 15 minutes and no comments from the dad.I'm starting to lose my patience now but still not saying anything. The kid goes to the comic section and disappears I hear him grunting and straining and I hear a bang and the kid starts crying and knew exactly what happened. Under our comic bins, we store the bulky overstock and we place a board to cover them because nosy customers would break open boxes to see what is in them.The board is firmly wedged in and really needs work and to pull it at a certain angle to get it out. Upon hearing this kid crying the dad comes around the corner with terror on his face saying what happened...what happened... because he can't see this kid. I point to comic and smugly say.. your kid was poking his nose somewhere he shouldn't have been and point to the comic section. At this point I really didn't give a ****. He goes to the back and starts whispering to his kid trying to comfort him...I proceed to gather all the toys his little darling left around and inspecting the packages for damage in case he comes to me and tries lecturing me.
Shops are not playprounds, parents please keep your kids undercontrol. Sadly I see this all the time. If your kids breaks something are you willing to pay for the item, I've been told off because I pointed out what their kid did.

The more I see this type of behavior I'm glad in someways I have no kids.

 

[freakinacage]

kids are like farts, they are fine when they are your own but other peoples are horrible

 

[IdofEntity]

I completly agree. I work in retail and what bothers me are parents that can not control or will not control their kids.
Example, a dad and kid walk into the shop. The kid tears off and starts touching and pulling things off the shelf. Grabbing things off the shelf and bring it to his dad to buy.The dad with his Starbucks coffee brouses the shelves and the kid takes off again dropping the item on the closest shelf, dad doesn't say a thing.I eye the kid trying to stand on a shelf to grab a toy on one of the upper pegs.I tell the kid he shouldn't do that, you might get hurt. He looks at me and tried again, I repeated the warning.The kid finally gets down and grabs a lower toy and tears off again to his dad. Dad's answer...That nice buddy and the kid drops the item on the floor next to his dad. No comment from the dad. The kid does this for the next 15 minutes and no comments from the dad.I'm starting to lose my patience now but still not saying anything. The kid goes to the comic section and disappears I hear him grunting and straining and I hear a bang and the kid starts crying and knew exactly what happened. Under our comic bins, we store the bulky overstock and we place a board to cover them because nosy customers would break open boxes to see what is in them.The board is firmly wedged in and really needs work and to pull it at a certain angle to get it out. Upon hearing this kid crying the dad comes around the corner with terror on his face saying what happened...what happened... because he can't see this kid. I point to comic and smugly say.. your kid was poking his nose somewhere he shouldn't have been and point to the comic section. At this point I really didn't give a ****. He goes to the back and starts whispering to his kid trying to comfort him...I proceed to gather all the toys his little darling left around and inspecting the packages for damage in case he comes to me and tries lecturing me.
Shops are not playprounds, parents please keep your kids undercontrol. Sadly I see this all the time. If your kids breaks something are you willing to pay for the item, I've been told off because I pointed out what their kid did.

The more I see this type of behavior I'm glad in someways I have no kids.

Makes me wonder why shops implement a No Dogs Allowed policy and yet don't implement a No Bratty Kids Allowed policy. I hope that kid brained himself and learned from it.

 

[evil tendencies]

Heh, DXM reminded me of a Jeff Foxworthy joke:

"My dad used to keep a 100 pound television on a TV tray...his theory was 'let him pull it down on his head once, he'll learn!' 'Oh, you want to stick a penny in the light socket? Go ahead! Hey, hurts like hell, don't it! He won't do that again...'"

The trick is (a) making sure they don't kill themselves in the process of learning and (b) making sure you rub it in a bit so they understand the lesson they were supposed to take from the pain.

Hey it worked for me - you certainly won't see me trying to drive cars off of jumps like the Dukes of Hazard anymore. I learned my lesson there.

 

[Dedwrekka]

I completly agree. I work in retail and what bothers me are parents that can not control or will not control their kids.
Example, a dad and kid walk into the shop. The kid tears off and starts touching and pulling things off the shelf. Grabbing things off the shelf and bring it to his dad to buy.The dad with his Starbucks coffee brouses the shelves and the kid takes off again dropping the item on the closest shelf, dad doesn't say a thing.I eye the kid trying to stand on a shelf to grab a toy on one of the upper pegs.I tell the kid he shouldn't do that, you might get hurt. He looks at me and tried again, I repeated the warning.The kid finally gets down and grabs a lower toy and tears off again to his dad. Dad's answer...That nice buddy and the kid drops the item on the floor next to his dad. No comment from the dad. The kid does this for the next 15 minutes and no comments from the dad.I'm starting to lose my patience now but still not saying anything. The kid goes to the comic section and disappears I hear him grunting and straining and I hear a bang and the kid starts crying and knew exactly what happened. Under our comic bins, we store the bulky overstock and we place a board to cover them because nosy customers would break open boxes to see what is in them.The board is firmly wedged in and really needs work and to pull it at a certain angle to get it out. Upon hearing this kid crying the dad comes around the corner with terror on his face saying what happened...what happened... because he can't see this kid. I point to comic and smugly say.. your kid was poking his nose somewhere he shouldn't have been and point to the comic section. At this point I really didn't give a ****. He goes to the back and starts whispering to his kid trying to comfort him...I proceed to gather all the toys his little darling left around and inspecting the packages for damage in case he comes to me and tries lecturing me.
Shops are not playprounds, parents please keep your kids undercontrol. Sadly I see this all the time. If your kids breaks something are you willing to pay for the item, I've been told off because I pointed out what their kid did.

The more I see this type of behavior I'm glad in someways I have no kids.

Reminds me of the parents who would use the toys section at the Target I worked at as a daycare center, sometimes when the parents weren't even in the store.

Admittedly, when taken shopping as a kid, I always went to the toys section, but I put things back where they went after taking them off the shelf and avoided making a mess. Usually, though, I'd brain-out in front of the video game displays.

Kids need to understand that there are consequences to their actions. I still stand by my earlier comment about the ruler and discipline. My mother is a substitute teacher, and I always felt bad for what she had to go through, because I usually had to see how those kids would treat subs and regular teachers on an every day basis (and teachers are powerless to do anything other than say "no"). While I don't think teachers should be allowed to beat kids, I think by the time kids reach about 7th to 8th grade, a slap on the wrist as punishment for bad behavior should mean more than a calm discussion.

 

[TreManor]

I do nto use physical discipline with my kids, I work VERY hard to make sur ethat I do not need to resort to it, BUT if teens were more oftne under the implied threat of physical punishment I think there would be FAR less need for it.

No matter what teh behaviourists may say, I remember my childhood and teh way peopel behaved quite keenly. We knew in school that if we stepped out of line there woudl be swift severe consequences for it, and thus we did it very rarely or VERY discreetly ( and as a result were usually much safer in the process ). As a result of this most of us have gone on to be well adjusted contributing memebers of society.

I think there is a very very grave danger in NOT teaching children that consequences can be severe, swift and often painful, because liek it or not, the world WILL delvier swift, severe and often VERY painful consequences WITHOUT the temperance of the slightest whit of compassion. teh worl dis not goign to congratulate them, encourage them, nuture them, or put up with them. They are FAR better off knowign that and coming to grips with it than not.

Parents need not physically discipline their kids, they need onyl understand that unless their kids know where the bounds are they WILL get hurt in life or hurt others and that it is SOLELY the parental responsibilty as to how their children are equipped to deal with the world.

 

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