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Oh FFS! Do you really think those parents want to be at the store with a cranky child? This subject has been beat to death is this forum. Life is inconvenient. It is inconvenient to have a sick kid and a husband who travels, or no husband at all, and to have to take your kids to the store to buy medicine, or food, (and maybe even a few non-essentials while you're there). I promise you it is way less convenient for the mom than it is for you, who merely has to deal with them for 2 minutes while you ring them up. If you can't handle that, get a new job, or become a hermit or something.
No, I think SOME parents don't give a flying fig about their kids and do things according to whatever is most convenient to them. I am not talking stressed out, overburdened, things get out of control once in in a while situation. I am sick of people coming back with 'I never/rarely see it so it can't be so bad'. It happens, more often than it should, and the majority of it is not 'oh, it couldn't be helped'.
Look there are a bunch of people in here saying the Op is a child hater, or they're making excuses for the behaviour, or saying that it can't really be that bad. I'm just here to point out that it's the parents, NOT the kids, and yes it can be that bad, just because some of you don't see it often doesn't make it not so. Plenty of careless parents out there if you happen to be in a situation to be around them enough to notice.
Because I work in retail and I check them out. Last time I checked nail polish, make up, greeting cards, sandals, candy, cokes, cheap toys, etc etc were not exactly essentials. Why do you have such a hard time believing there are a good number of parents who do such things?
Who are you to tell people what they should buy and when? Maybe that is the only time they have all week to enjoy their money. Big whoop.
Oh FFS! Do you really think those parents want to be at the store with a cranky child? This subject has been beat to death is this forum. Life is inconvenient. It is inconvenient to have a sick kid and a husband who travels, or no husband at all, and to have to take your kids to the store to buy medicine, or food, (and maybe even a few non-essentials while you're there). I promise you it is way less convenient for the mom than it is for you, who merely has to deal with them for 2 minutes while you ring them up. If you can't handle that, get a new job, or become a hermit or something.
Exactly. Maybe I want to give myself a manicure and eat M&Ms while doing it and the only time I can go to the store is between practices and tutoring sessions while my husband is working 50-60 hour work weeks. Maybe I can wait until hubby gets home from work to go. Oh wait, then I'd be an ungrateful, lazy housewife who can't get her **** together and takes advantage her husband. Silly me!
Then go first thing in the morning when it opens. Problem solved. And the same can be said for annyoing adults who take their sweet you know what time at the counter or spend 30 minutes yapping loudly on their cell phones.
No, I think SOME parents don't give a flying fig about their kids and do things according to whatever is most convenient to them. I am not talking stressed out, overburdened, things get out of control once in in a while situation. I am sick of people coming back with 'I never/rarely see it so it can't be so bad'. It happens, more often than it should, and the majority of it is not 'oh, it couldn't be helped'.
Look there are a bunch of people in here saying the Op is a child hater, or they're making excuses for the behaviour, or saying that it can't really be that bad. I'm just here to point out that it's the parents, NOT the kids, and yes it can be that bad, just because some of you don't see it often doesn't make it not so. Plenty of careless parents out there if you happen to be in a situation to be around them enough to notice.
So tell me, oh great Swami, how do you know which situations are the once in a while type and which are the result of lazy parenting?
How can you tell a parent doesn't care? I have a high needs daughter and I promise you there were times I fully disconnected while she flipped out. As perscribed by the therapist and by my own ability to cope. You don't get she was flipping out for 80% of her waking hours for a good 3 years of her life. Maybe I looked like I didn't care? Damn it I did! I just had no answeres. None. Just to get through what I had to as quick as I could. I think every person who gave me a dirty look should have been fined an hour of babysitting time.
God forbid me if I also got nail polish while out getting milk and cheese.
Its funny. If I was fully placating her I would have been carrying her, buying every single thing she wanted and opening all sorts of packages for her to eat at that moment. I wonder what the parent police would have thought of me?
Parents - think about the viewpoints of the child-free expressed here.
Child-free - think about the viewpoints of the parents (and children).
Perhaps if we all try, we can understand each other a bit more.
Can't rep you but fully agree with this.
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