Permissive parents: Curb your brats

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:29pm

A well written piece on CNN today, that needs to be shared.

"Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be."

Please share this story with parents of children.
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[Bluemoon]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:33pm

AMEN!

And for the record, I am a parent myself. But I'm a parent who had "the look" down pat.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:36pm

Already shared on my FB page. I also have the look down, learned it from my own mom (the ex-marine, talk about living in fear!)
Heck I lived in fear of being skinned alive if I even thought about slapping my mother!

[D2]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:39pm

I wish my pen name were LZ Granderson.

Posted to my Facebook page, which will not surprise any of my friends given my daily rants about kids in Whole Foods...

[LaurenB]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:43pm

Oh and heaven forbid if the child smacked the adult in the face, and the adult smacked the little offending hand. Some do-gooder would probably call the police and accuse child brutality.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:46pm

I am the proud parent of three young women. I did not tolerate bad behavior from them when they were young, so I do not tolerate it from others. I have 'the look', and I have no problem using it on other people's children, or on other adults.

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:47pm

I'm not a parent, but I'm a teacher, and "the look" is a savior.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:47pm

At a BBQ yesterday, I glared at one rude child and then said out loud, "I miss the days when you could smack someone's snotty kid at these kind of parties."

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:49pm

I have a sister-in-law who lets my nephews act how ever they please. I walked out of their house one Thanksgiving. I informed her that no child would ever talk to me the way her sons do. They are disrespectful and if that's the way she wants to raise them, so be it, but I won't be at many family getherings if this continues. If I spoke to my uncle the way they spoke to me my uncle would have put my head through a wall and then my mother would have beat the crap out of me...well that's what I imagine would happen in my head, so I never acted or disrespected any adult for fear of the punishment.

[D2]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:51pm

Diva, I love you.

Both of my parents had "the look," and it was not to be challenged, particularly my mom. According to my sister, I've inherited her "look." I must start using it more often.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 1:53pm

My younger son would cry when I gave him "the look" Grandma taught me well.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 2:13pm

Wow parents are going to be OUTRAGED at that piece- especially since it was written by a gay. Children are precious angels and cannot and should not be restrained in any way. They are the center of the universe. I have noticed that children have grown much more fragile since my youth where any ailment received a band-aid and (if your mom was really high strung) a shot of Bactine. Nowadays, mom is on a first-name basis with the staff at urgent care and Precious is whisked off to the examining room for sniffles, scrapes and upset tum-tum.

Meanwhile they are allowed to dictate family meals, are catered to in restaurants and apparently are allergic to everything- especially waiting for anything.

Waiters should get some sort of special combat pay (or at least an assist from Servicemaster) every time a family with kids sits at their table. God forbid kids stay home until they can eat without 2/3 of the meal splattering around the booster seat.

God I hate kids.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 2:19pm

If I did half the crap kids do these days when I was younger (talking back slapping adults) mominator (and RC) would skin me alive.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 2:23pm

If there is anything more obnoxious than parents who think their misbehaved children are somehow cute, it completely escapes me at the moment.

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 2:24pm

OMG. Bactine!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 3:44pm

I'm so tired of children. I never wanted them and only tolerate them when they're being quiet.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 3:48pm

I'm not a parent but I am the eldest sister of a handicapped adult who can often regress to child-like behavior. I also spent my college years (and beyond) working in various stores where children would often be present. I worked for Warner Brother's Store, Gymboree, Hollywood Video, Borders Express, and Disney Store. Like others I had "the look" down pat. Another favorite of mine when a child was running around the store was to say "Red Light". The child would stop running and would stand in place while waiting for me to say "Green Light". And then I would just happen to forget to say "Green Light". Laugh if you must but it did work - every time. We live in a society where we cannot say anything to or about the child of another person. Once while working at Gymboree a child was walking around in a pair of shoes that had not been purchased. I said something to my manager who gave me permission to ask the girl's mother if she planned on purchasing the shoes. When I did the woman dropped all of the clothes she was carrying on the floor, took the shoes off her child, and left. Asking politely left me with a lost sale and a mess to clean up. "Red Light" is better alternative.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:01pm

I also find yelling out 'DONKEY PUNCH' before I hit someone is rather effective.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:09pm

Diva, a potatoe in a sock doesn't leave scars...so I've been told.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:10pm

It's as if he went in my head and wrote down my thoughts.

People say blame the parents and not the child but some kids are just a**holes!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:41pm

**Writes down what Boobs suggested**

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:42pm

My parents raised 6 kids. A popular game was "Quakers Meeting." My father would call that out and we'd all have to be perfectly still and silent. If you moved or made a noise, you were out. The last to speak "won" the Quaker's Meeting. Sometimes he'd say the winner got a nickel but I don't ever remember a payout.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:46pm

A popular game was "Quakers Meeting." My father would call that out and we'd all have to be perfectly still and silent. If you moved or made a noise, you were out. The last to speak "won" the Quaker's Meeting. Sometimes he'd say the winner got a nickel but I don't ever remember a payout

My mom called that "Statues".

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:48pm

I wonder what the correlation between the parents who contradict this article is with those who bash teachers...

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 4:54pm

Apparently quite a few people agreed with this article.

"49,332 people recommend this"