Parent's Please!!! (teens, playing, daughter, 3 years old)

[Okie_Dokie!]

Originally Posted by max's mama

Adults! Please control yourself!
Stop smocking in public, drinking and cursing in public, yelling in public and teaching my child all sorts of horrible things!
Wow!
I feel better now.

Well,Now
That's two of us.

[tiffela74]

"This little GIRL was in nothing but a diaper. When she decided to get out and join her siblings I noticed she kept sticking her hands down the back of her diaper then touching the clothing Grossed me out."

I feel for you on that..YUCK!!! But even worse, a few weeks ago, i was in a specialty candy store, where they have samples setting out, and also a JellyBelly area...well, I had my kids AT my side, and they know that I will allow a few taste samples, but I am the one to get em, and NOT every single sample! anyhow, mine are being good (cuz they KNOW theyd BETTER BE!!) when this ......woman...comes in w/her little brats. They start just cramming their mouths as fast as they can, PUTTING BACK THE ONES THEY DONT LIKE!!!!!!! and just like the post above, a little one in a diaper w/an appearent butt itch or something, and the wee one toddles up, hand in behind, then out comes the hand...INTO the JellyBelly containers!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!! GROSS!! what does mom do? LAUGHS! and contines on...
we left w/o buying anything......

it always amazes me, as a mom of 3 myself, what parents are letting their kids do...
gross....disturbing...irritating and sad...

[Mrs.Bewitched]

Yes, children, and adults, need to learn proper behavior in all situations.

Those children need to learn it from their adult parents.

However, the way the mis-behaved adults act.......couldn't that too be from poor upbringing, when they were a child themselves, so now they don't know any better?

It's like a vicious circle.

[NYMD67]

Originally Posted by max's mama

Adults! Please control yourself!
Stop smocking in public, drinking and cursing in public, yelling in public and teaching my child all sorts of horrible things!
Wow!
I feel better now.

Thanks Max's mama! You took the words out of my mouth...

Just because a child has a meltdown in a store (as if it hasn't happened to ALL of us...) doesn't mean their parents aren't doing their "job".
Maybe that day was a "bad" day for that parent, we really can't judge what is going on with others....

[veuvegirl]

Originally Posted by max's mama

Adults! Please control yourself!
Stop smocking in public, drinking and cursing in public, yelling in public and teaching my child all sorts of horrible things!
Wow!
I feel better now.

Exactly! Just curious if the OP has children....

[925mine]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

its a permissive society.
the entire concept of discipline and punishment is up for grabs. we will pay a price for this turn in the road. life is far more cruel in its punishment than the
palm of a parent.

No truer words have been spoken.

'What goes around, comes around'

[findinghope]

omg! children going around sticking their hands in diapers and then in public food areas!!! i hope you told the manager or owner. that is disgusting!

i myself have a 2 yo that is difficult to reign in sometimes. and yes sometimes i have to let him cry but leave him in the stroller or cart when he really just wants to run around.
but i ask you one favor: when this happens, or when i have to reprimand him or speak loudly to him over his screaming, please dont give me dirty looks like i am abusing him---

[VBmom]

Okay, you guys had your rant, I need mine!

DH and I took our 8 yr old to a baseball game recently. There was a family behind us with about 4 pre teen boys. Before the game started all of the boys were screaming in our ears. Not yelling about the game mind you. Screaming to see who could scream the loudest and longest. I looked back at them maybe 5 times. You know, giving them the look that would have shut my own up without having to say a word. They got louder and longer. Finally, I began to look for the parent. Two sets, sitting at the end of the row. I gave them a look. They laughed. After about 20 minutes of this, I turned around and asked the boys to please stop yelling in my ear. We would have moved but it was packed and no where to go. Would you believe the mother came over and began yelling at me that if I had a problem I should tell her! I said," I simply asked that they not yell in my ear." She continues to yell at me that I should not speak to her children. So I said, "Well then, would you please not have them yell in my ear?" She calls me a B-word and sits down. Never said a word to her kids. We stayed for another 10 minutes with them getting even louder and now laughing at us.
We left, ruining the evening for an 8 year old who had waited over half the season to go to a game. If I could not keep my kids under control,they would not be able to go to such events. I would be mortified if my kids ruined the evening for another family because of their bad behavior. This mother thought it was funny!

[Granny Sue]

Originally Posted by VBmom

Okay, you guys had your rant, I need mine!

DH and I took our 8 yr old to a baseball game recently. There was a family behind us with about 4 pre teen boys. Before the game started all of the boys were screaming in our ears. Not yelling about the game mind you. Screaming to see who could scream the loudest and longest. I looked back at them maybe 5 times. You know, giving them the look that would have shut my own up without having to say a word. They got louder and longer. Finally, I began to look for the parent. Two sets, sitting at the end of the row. I gave them a look. They laughed. After about 20 minutes of this, I turned around and asked the boys to please stop yelling in my ear. We would have moved but it was packed and no where to go. Would you believe the mother came over and began yelling at me that if I had a problem I should tell her! I said," I simply asked that they not yell in my ear." She continues to yell at me that I should not speak to her children. So I said, "Well then, would you please not have them yell in my ear?" She calls me a B-word and sits down. Never said a word to her kids. We stayed for another 10 minutes with them getting even louder and now laughing at us.
We left, ruining the evening for an 8 year old who had waited over half the season to go to a game. If I could not keep my kids under control,they would not be able to go to such events. I would be mortified if my kids ruined the evening for another family because of their bad behavior. This mother thought it was funny!

This and some of the others responses here are part of the problem. Parents always want to blame somebody else or hold someone else reponsible for raising there children.
It's the parents responsibility to teach the child right from wrong. It's the parents responsibility to buy the correct food for their children.
I see some blaming others for cursing around their children. If your so concerned about people cursing around your children why do you have the in that situation in the 1st place? Or you can use it as a learning tool....say something like..."this is what lack of educations will get you....you too can grow up thinking it's cool to use these words."

And yes I have children, but I raised my own, taugh my own and disciplined my own.

I'll protect your child from bodily harm but I won't raise them for you.

[veuvegirl]

Originally Posted by VBmom

Okay, you guys had your rant, I need mine!

DH and I took our 8 yr old to a baseball game recently. There was a family behind us with about 4 pre teen boys. Before the game started all of the boys were screaming in our ears. Not yelling about the game mind you. Screaming to see who could scream the loudest and longest. I looked back at them maybe 5 times. You know, giving them the look that would have shut my own up without having to say a word. They got louder and longer. Finally, I began to look for the parent. Two sets, sitting at the end of the row. I gave them a look. They laughed. After about 20 minutes of this, I turned around and asked the boys to please stop yelling in my ear. We would have moved but it was packed and no where to go. Would you believe the mother came over and began yelling at me that if I had a problem I should tell her! I said," I simply asked that they not yell in my ear." She continues to yell at me that I should not speak to her children. So I said, "Well then, would you please not have them yell in my ear?" She calls me a B-word and sits down. Never said a word to her kids. We stayed for another 10 minutes with them getting even louder and now laughing at us.
We left, ruining the evening for an 8 year old who had waited over half the season to go to a game. If I could not keep my kids under control,they would not be able to go to such events. I would be mortified if my kids ruined the evening for another family because of their bad behavior. This mother thought it was funny!

At this point I would have called security over and had their a** thrown out of the ballpark.