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If you are single and have no kids or even if you do have kids? I was on the bus and the kids on the bus were all screaming and yelling. Their parents just kept screaming back at them to shut up! Then we get off the bus, they take forever to get off. Then I was at the mall and some kids ran into me and just don't watch where they are going. When I went to the bathroom, the kid kept running around and climbing under stalls and the mom didn't even say anything while she fixed her makeup. Then at the gym pool, the kids just splash and splash and get into the lap lanes and the parents don't say anything. The lifeguard can only say so much, but the parents don't do anything about it.
If you are single and have no kids or even if you do have kids? I was on the bus and the kids on the bus were all screaming and yelling. Their parents just kept screaming back at them to shut up! Then we get off the bus, they take forever to get off. Then I was at the mall and some kids ran into me and just don't watch where they are going. When I went to the bathroom, the kid kept running around and climbing under stalls and the mom didn't even say anything while she fixed her makeup. Then at the gym pool, the kids just splash and splash and get into the lap lanes and the parents don't say anything. The lifeguard can only say so much, but the parents don't do anything about it.
Being a cashier at a big box store I see this all the time and it drives me crazy. Parents don't remove their kids from the problem but just talk, talk, yell and yell at them. I watch kids play with the items by the registers, putting things in their mouths, dropping them on the floor, etc. etc.. Parents don't even notice! Even when they are seated in the shopping cart they'll grab my bag carousel and turn it and turn it so I have a problem bagging things. Parents would rather say "Stop! Don't do that!" over and over and over rather than just MOVE the shopping cart three or four inches away. Once, when I was waitressing I was bowled over by a kid running through the restaurant and went flying landing on my hands and knees. The parents made him apologize but I couldn't help but think the parents should've been the ones apologizing since they were the ones letting him do that.
I honestly don't understand parents anymore. If I had acted like that as a kid...well, I don't even want to think what would have happened to me. And my own kids weren't allowed to do stuff like that either.
I always make it a point to Thank Parents and Grandparents who have children with them who are well behaved, polite and not running amok everywhere. I thank them for "Parenting/Grandparenting" and teaching their children what is right and wrong and I tell them it has made our time out in public more pleasant because of they are teaching their children.
I always make it a point to Thank Parents and Grandparents who have children with them who are well behaved, polite and not running amok everywhere. I thank them for "Parenting/Grandparenting" and teaching their children what is right and wrong and I tell them it has made our time out in public more pleasant because of they are teaching their children.
I do this as well. I think that the adults are always happy to hear that someone has noticed that their children are polite and well mannered.
Misbehaving kids and lazy parents, yes. But many parents think their kids are angels and everyone else's kids are the monsters. I hear this a lot a family gatherings. Since I don't have kids, those that do like to share with me their opinions of other relatives misbehaving kids. Then the next parent (of different kids) makes the same comment and so on, and so on. I kind of laugh to myself about how they each think they're the better parent and their kids are better behaved than the others.
I hate how a family with their WHOLE gaggle of kids has to go shopping together...and they walk down the aisle abreast, blocking the path for anyone else.
Your post reminded me of the following bit from Jeff Foxworthy--specifically the last 8 seconds.
Kids and parents in general drive me up a wall. There are no more than a handful of kids I can even be around at for an extended period of time.
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