Posted on 07/23/2011 10:13:44 AM PDT by Immerito
Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- If you're the kind of parent who allows your 5-year-old to run rampant in public places like restaurants, I have what could be some rather disturbing news for you.
I do not love your child.
The rest of the country does not love your child either.
And the reason why we're staring at you every other bite is not because we're acknowledging some sort of mutual understanding that kids will be kids but rather we want to kill you for letting your brat ruin our dinner.
Or our plane ride.
Or trip to the grocery store.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Don’t apologize for your child — as one of God’s children, your autistic child is every bit as blessed as any other human on earth. And maybe more so.
It's slang.
Chill.
My mother, a 5' 1" Italian woman, never said to me or my 4 siblings, wait 'till your father gets home.
She had a bamboo switch about 4' long and it tapered to about a quarter of an inch that she would use on us when ever she decided that anyone deserved it.
If you even raised your hand in self defense to ward off a blow, she'd beat you until you knew that you'd never do that again.
If any of us kids would even have thought of hitting our mother, the other four would have beat the hell out of him and then ratted him out to mom so that she could finish him off.
Like a good jockey, she rarely needed to go to the whip, but when she did, you'd have welts for weeks and memories for a life time.
I never saw her have to hit any of us more than one time for each offense, and we were careful to not cross the line {or get caught doing it}.
Good thIng spanking is out of schools now. Think of the teachers today!
When I did that my mother’s reaction was a slap upside the head. I didn’t do more than a few times. In fact, there’s an old home movie of us eating at my aunt’s house when I was six years old. My mother reaches for a biscuit and I duck.
She didn’t need ritalin either. A slap upside the head and a scream: “Pay attention!” worked everytime.
I agree with most of LZ’s article, but your comment underscores the reasons why people should not judge a situation without all the facts. It’s not unlike adults who are sick, yet don’t appear sick.
Having raised six children, I can tell you this generation pretty much have ruined their children.
I didn't need to have the "look" or to clear my "throat" or even speak a word to get my children to behave in public.
After they were trained on how to behave in public, my wife and I fully expected them to behave. If they did misbehave it was dealt with at home later or in a private place and rarely happened again because it was clearly explained to them the "board of education" would teach them how to behave.
Today I will without hesitation tell a parent to get their simian under control or I will do it for them.
Yeah, I get looks of horror that I would embarrass them in front of their friends or family but they normally fix the problem
“just saying.” Just saying what?”
It’s slang.
Chill.”
Yea,
I hear that wonderful saying from coworkers all the time.
Just saying.
What a stupid term, slang or otherwise.
This relates to the “buddyfication” of parenting that is all around us.
Children are now the buddies of parents and are constantly being told “good job,buddy”.
There are no standards for what is an actual good job,yes I know it raises self esteem, but it has produced a generation of people who feel entitled even when they do a mediocre job at best.
You and your child are not the ones the writer is targeting with the article. It’s the dreadful parents that allow their kids to behave like primative heathens in public. (With apologies to primative heathens everywhere.)
Parents want to be ‘frends’ with their kids and hold back on any sort of punishment for bad behavior. This includes not correcting children when they throw themselves down in a store because Mommy didn’t buy them a toy, or not keeping them in their chairs at a restaurant. Sorry, kids need their parents to be parents and prepare them for the life outside of Mommy and Daddy’s sphere of protection.
I, for one, think parents like the one illustrated in this article are the exception, not the rule. I live in Small Town, TX and I don’t see that many brats. When I do see them, they make an impression, albeit a bad one. It’s the behavior of all the well-behaved kids that you forget. At least, that’s what I am choosing to believe.
You sure are touchy today. Must be the heat...
So you think people who use service animals are pigs because they are the only ones legally able to do that.
From an older person POV. There have been more times than I can count when, at the grocers or other public space, I have been run into, just about knocked over by thoroughly undisciplined children running around unbridled. To the point that I fear the weekly shopping trip — because I never know in advance what indignity I will face. It is not HATE; it is FEAR. Just Saying.
By the way, by the time your perfect children — assuming they will work — pay into Social Security (oozing a little hate here), I will have been taken out by some bureaucrat serving on some panel under Obamacare. And btw, the reason you can write (perhaps speak) English and not German or Arabic, is because someone of your hateful senior generation gave their life for you and your perfect children.
When you see an unattended child, give them an espresso and a puppy. That’l learn the parents.
Just came from Target where a 6-7 year old was kicking the back heel of his dad as he pushed the shopping cart. All he would say was “stop that” or he would try avoiding the kicks that followed.
I once served time as a night stocker at Wal-Mart - 10 pm - 6 am. At all hours of the night mothers (usually) would bring in their kids and turn them loose while mommie shopped. I used to catch 'em in the toy department pulling one item after another off the shelves and leaving them on the floor. I'd calmly take their hand and say "Let's find mommy" and bring the kid back, with the admonition to mommy that the store was a place of business - not a playground.
More often I'd get glared at but nothing more and on rare occasions I'd get a "I'm sorry".
Teens would use the place as a replacement mall - a couple of times the older ones would take a bike from the rack and race down the aisles. A few snarling "Ged offa da bike" did the trick.
I also wonder why I didn't get fired (didn't care and I showed it - beer money job) but this was a small town and I guess the liberal mindset wasn't so deeply implanted.
And we know you don't discipline them at home because you don't possess "the look." If you had "the look," you wouldn't need to say "sit down" a thousand times.
That's NOTHING but the plain truth. One look from either of my parents was more than enough for me and my brothers and sisters to pipe down. we KNEW there would be consequences...and they could involve my father's belt! Not something we looked forward to!
“And we know you don’t discipline them at home because you don’t possess “the look.” If you had “the look,” you wouldn’t need to say “sit down” a thousand times.”
HA!!
My sister in law says my ‘look’ scares her even. But that look is never as scary as “Do you need to go to the bathroom” through clenched teeth.
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