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Control your BLEEPING kids!

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Just felt the need to rant about this.

I went out to a nice dinner with my mother yesterday. We sat down at our booth and began snacking on our appetizers. Behind me there was a little kid, about three years old, who kept leaning across the booth and over the top of me. I decided to ignore it as best I could. (Which is hard for me, as I really dislike kids.) The kid kept jumping up and down, then started coughing ON ME. Like.. to the point I could literally feel it hitting my neck. My mother thought this was funny and decided to wave and smile at the kid. The kid just laughed and laughed and then reached over and jerked on the hood of my shirt as hard as she could! The mother, who didn't even apologize for this, swatted her kids hand and told her to sit down and did nothing else. I was completely blown away! My parents would have beaten me so bad I couldn't sit for a week if I did something like that.

A similar thing happened when my fiance and I were out having dinner. The kid in the booth behind him kept leaning over and poking him, while the parents ate their dinner and smiled at the kid. Eventually the kid took a fork and (Im not kidding.) jabbed it into my fiances ear. The family just said "oh sorry! He's curious!"

That also reminds me of all the times I watched parents allow their kids to punch and kick people in costumes. Or parents who just let their kids climb on other people like a playground. Or run wild in stores... It makes me so mad.

Ive seen kids throw tantrums roughly this bad.

Do people just assume everyone loves their kids or something? Do they think everything the child does is just SO CUTE AND INNOCENT? Do they not consider what other people think about this? What if someone eventually snaps and screams at (or worse, hits) someone elses kid because no one will make the kid leave them alone?

Edit; HTML and I do not get along.

03-3-2014 at 11:58 AM

That's terrible! If me and my brother ever acted like this as a kids my parents would have beat us till it hurt to sit down. I can't believe that actually happened and all the parents could say was "oh sorry! He's curious!" Curious of what? Seeing your fiancees eardrum? I would have blasted the parents who aren't able to raise a decent little human being.

01-6-2014 at 11:41 PM

Don't hate kids. And you don't need to make a child cry. They just end up hating you and it's most likely when your kids grow up and are about 30 or 40 they have been to jail. Because of how you treated them.

08-22-2013 at 9:24 PM

I am really sorry you had to deal with this. As a relatively new parent (my son turned one in June), reading this makes me cringe. And I can say that now, from the other side of the situation, I don't understand that mother any more than I did before I became one myself. I refuse to inflict my child's bad behavior on other people. I have been lucky so far; my kid is a happy, social, well-behaved baby who likes to watch everything around him. You can see his little mind trying to work out what's going on. The worst thing he has ever done to a stranger was crawl up to a teenager during this year's Memorial Day parade, grab hold of his Sudoku book, look at it upside down, then babble inanely for a couple of seconds before losing interest and crawling back to me (this was a kid I had coached in Odyssey of the Mind through my pregnancy, so he was more charmed than annoyed at my son's attention). If, however, it had been my kid doing those things to you, I would have apologized profusely and reprimanded my son. And, seriously, if he had refused to leave you alone, we would have left the restaurant. Kicking and screaming, maybe, but a child needs to learn that there are consequences to bad behavior, and playing with strangers without their permission is not kosher. Again, sorry this happened to you. I blame the mother completely and worry about her kid's future; clearly that child has no boundaries. I hope you don't hold this against all parents.

06-7-2012 at 3:26 AM

I think a large part of the problem is, on one teaches their kids how to THINK. They tell their kids what to do and "Because I said so." and the majority just accidentally pick up thinking skills on their own. when was the last time you saw a parent sit down and have deep discussion as to why its not OK for him or her to wipe their mouth on someones shirt bottom? If "because I said so" is the only reason given, then of course the kid will think "Well, mom/dad is looking the other way, so he/she won't stop me." Instinctive human empathy only goes so far. Remember, for hundreds of thousands of years, the only people who mattered were the people you saw on a day to day basis. If you want them to actually care about other people, and not just how their actions will effect themselves, they need to be taught to care about other people, which they first need to learn some critical thinking skills in order to be able to do...

06-5-2012 at 5:55 PM

The blame lies on both the kid and the parent(s) when a child is acting like a heathen.

06-5-2012 at 2:31 PM

There were some comments just about the kids.

06-5-2012 at 8:28 AM

lmao, my mom beat my as.s when I threw tantrums in public. "he's just a kid!" is bulls.hit and doesn't apply lol

06-5-2012 at 2:31 AM

She is blaming the parents. "Control your bleeping kids"?

06-4-2012 at 7:39 PM

We were all kids at one point. We all threw tantrums in public. Most of us probably got in trouble for it too. Don't blame the kids. Blame the parents.

04-5-2012 at 1:49 PM

I like some kids who are at lest able to sit and not bother anyone but I would have complained to the manager about it.

04-3-2012 at 7:07 AM

Kids can make me go completely ape poop; I freaking hate them -.-; And seriously, is teaching manners dead in this world!?

03-5-2012 at 7:46 PM

This is why at 30 years old, I have no children and also why I sometimes pause to wonder why we make people leash and muzzle their dogs, but not their children. Most 2 year old dogs I know are much more well behaved then most 2 year old children I come into contact with. Screaming, wandering into my personal space, punching, kicking, biting, cursing, it makes me wonder, are some children actually possessed kiddies and we just ignore it because it happens to all of them? LOL.

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2012-03-05 16:50:53 by #22188

2012-03-05 16:48:44 by #22188

03-2-2012 at 5:52 PM

my mom woulda dragged me outta that building and smacked me around so fast if I did that as a kid

03-2-2012 at 5:42 PM

ugh i know the feeling. my sister's friend has a two year old and she slaps others, curses, and everyone just laughs like its funny and doing nothing to stop the habits. My family is doing our best to make sure my nephew dosn't end up anyway like that. he's almost a year and a very smart baby. hopefully he'll learn manners quick. i will defiantly make sure of it.

02-4-2012 at 1:43 PM

When I was a kid and acted up, I either got a smack on the bum or if it was in a supermarket, my mother would just leave everything and march me out of the store.

02-3-2012 at 2:24 PM

This is why I no longer shop at WalMart. Whenever my family and I go shopping, we tend to split up, and when I'm walking around looking for food (or for my family), there is ALWAYS a family with like 5 kids, and either one, or all of them are screaming... for no reason. And whenever I go out to a restaurant, there's also ALWAYS a screaming kid, which irritates me, but everyone else around me either ignores it, or thinks it's cute. This has gotten so bad, I now refuse to have children. If I do ever have kids, they'll be adopted, and above age 5.

01-25-2012 at 1:50 AM

They probably would. If it's disrupting other people's meals and making visiting the place unenjoyable/having a negative impact on business, they'll get rid of the problem real quick

01-23-2012 at 10:22 PM

I wonder if they would ask them to leave. :/ I see this sort of stuff happening so much anymore. I wonder why?

01-23-2012 at 9:23 PM

I would speak to the manager and tell them that someone can't control their kid. I'm trying to enjoy a meal without having some kid jam a fork in my ear.

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