Posted on 02/27/2006 10:48:23 AM PST by presidio9
After a couple of times of enforcing what I had promised all it took was just "the look".
A person after my own heart! We used the same technique! I also used "the voice" when speaking my daughter's name!
You still don't get it.
If I don't think like you on this position, you insult me and call names.
Are you so mentally deficient that you can't understand that?
As for commands, I didn't give any. Love the neighbor as yourself. Blame Jesus -- kids are people, too.
Why MUST I like what you like?
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I agree with you. I have no problem with anyone not liking children. I do have a problem with some of the behaviour the author described:
One of my friends still hates me because I kicked over her kid's stroller at a birthday party — and the kid wasn't even in it." and
Trip the kid who keeps bumping into you "accidentally."
It is possible she was exaggerating for the purpose of humour, however.
Oh boy, the smartest "sage" in the room.
Go write that on the wall of a stall.
In my experience that places you in the category of people who are mostly likely to give parental advice. I've noticed that it's never the parents who have all the answers, but always the person (usually female) with no children of his/her own, but who's been exposed to children just enough to know it all.
Let's be real, you can't go around knocking down anyone, that's called assault.
Usually, I tell the little brat that I'm an evil demon and if he doesn't shut up, I'm gonna turn his momma into a toad or something.
They run.
I understand you better than you understand yourself. You are either: 1) Unlucky in love (i.e. a geek), 2) a pseudo-intellectual current or future graduate student, or 3)a wannabe hipster who is too cool to admit pleasure in anything as "common" as children.
Which is it?
Actually, "the look" is very effective with adults as well. Usually if the little monsters are acting up, I give "the look" to the parent instead. Amazingly, the parent then steps up.
I should have said all caregivers I guess. It's an amazing testament to the intelligence of small children to witness the change in their behavior under differing sources of authority.
And I understand you completely, You are: 1. a know it all with no knowledge, 2. a wannabe Stalin, 3. Someone who had a kid and thinks that now you have corned all the intelligence of the universe simply because you have one.
Which is it?
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LOL!
It's true, I positively love the look of terror they get when they think they're gonna have to take mommy home in a shopping bag.
Possibly. It was over an incident with another child, and one them caused it. Having not been there personally at the confrontation, I have no idea which child's story is really true. I'm not one to instantly assume my kid is innocent, so you're barking up the wrong tree there. The other parent was guilty of that particular sin.
Be honest about it, if you kid p*ssed someone off enough to cause that commotion, maybe you deserved some jail time.
My kid did come out on top, and that did indeed piss that parent off enough to threaten me. I gave him the opportunity to make good on his threat and he came up short. End of story.
Either way, it couldn't happen today. I make a greater effort to avoid violence, and I now carry a gun. Just carrying the gun alone means I can't engage in a fist fight without going to jail for a long, long time.
#86 -- ah, yes. What's the old saying, "I was a much better parent before I had children."
I think we have new tagline material here.
"Usually, I tell the little brat that I'm an evil demon and if he doesn't shut up, I'm gonna turn his momma into a toad or something. "
OK, I admit, I did something similar. I got very tired of a little girl using the WWII memorial as a sliding board (the part for the fallen troops) so I told her that she was sliding on the soldiers' grave and if she didn't stop, their ghosts would follow her home. She stopped.
"You know, I've noticed that most ill-behaved children have ill-behaved parents."
All kids are ill-behaved once in awhile, even those with the best of parents. I would venture to say that the vast majority of parents do NOT think it's cute, and are desperately trying to curb the bad behavior without causing a major scene.
Granted, there are some really bad kids and some really bad parents, but there are also some grown-ups who think that the world revolves around them and that they are entitled to every experience, whether it be their dinner at Pizza Hut or their 45 minutes on an airplane, going exactly their way.
I once had a woman turn around and F me on a flight because my baby was crying-meanwhile rows of seats in other parts of the plane sat empty but rather than move she opted to scream at me while I desperately tried to quiet and comfort my child. At least kids have the excuse that they are not yet capable of always controlling their behavior. IMO many adults are every bit as ill-behaved as children, what's their excuse?
That's a thread in and of itself. I've noticed that underneath the surface of most geeks is a very angry and hateful person. The governmetn should give me a grant to find out why.
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