Shitty Parents
1 Feb
You’re the smug, entitled taint-berries who not only insist on irresponsibly reproducing, but also feel that the world owes you something because you’ve contributed your fractured DNA to an already polluted gene pool. You let your kids run around screeching in a restaurant, but would probably sue if a waiter dropped a tray of hot food on your little angels. Here’s an idea: if you want to let your kids run around in a restaurant, go to Chuck E. Fucking Cheese’s ™. Oh and that shrill screaming? You may be able to just tune that out, but the rest of the world doesn’t live with your little spoiled, shrieking pile of pure evil.
You “don’t believe in spanking,” but you also obviously don’t believe in any other strategy to show that there are consequences for acting like horrible little goblins from another planet. You probably wonder why your kids’ manners resemble those of someone raised by warthogs with a severe attitude problem.
Not that you really have a reference for good behavior: it’s no wonder your little homunculi can’t behave in public. You obviously are behaviorally challenged yourselves, or you would know that letting your kid run wild or destroy things in public is impolite. I hate to even call you “parents” for fear of insulting real parents who have actually taken responsibility for their offspring.
Oh, and speaking of responsibility, I refuse to take any for your kids. You had ‘em, you make sure they don’t fall/run into doors/get eaten by crocodiles. Also, if they are rude to me, I’m going to say something to them. Don’t give me that line about how only you can discipline your kids. If you actually did so, I wouldn’t have to tell them to stop kicking my seat or I will stab them in the face with a pencil. And don’t snottily tell me, “Well, if you didn’t want to be around kids, why did you go to a family-friendly event/place/porn convention?” Look around, you cretin. It’s not that I don’t want to be around kids, it’s that I don’t want to be around your kids. Some people’s children are capable of behaving like (somewhat) sane human children. Your kids are behaving like escapees from a facility for the criminally loud and idiotic. Incidentally, serving hot dogs at an event does not, in fact, make it “family-friendly,” but that’s another post.
Here’s a tip: if your Golden Retriever behaves better “off-leash” than your children, get off my lawn.
As a parent, I endorse this message.
As a mom of 4, I agree. As a parent, one of your responsibilities is to teach your children how to be respectful to others. Unfortunately there are a lot of lazy parents out there that really don’t give a damn.
Another annoying thing, from a parent’s perspective, is if you’re eating out with a baby, say 8 months and under, and they are crying or screaming, you can’t duct tape their mouth’s….child free by choice adults need to remember this and also be respectful.
Just because we have chosen to have children doesn’t mean we should stop living our lives. :)
One way to address this is to have places that specifically cater to child-free adults (or parents who leave their dang rugrats home). A place that, for example, discourages parents from bringing kids by adding $1000 a head for each kid that walks in the door. Hehehehe, that might work. Give those of us who don’t want to participate or be around the little monsters :) a little space. Thoughts?
I usually try to go to dinner at say, 7:30 or 8 to try and avoid them: When my brother and I were toddler age, bedtime was usually 8pm or possibly earlier. Now I see little kids in the *bar* section of restaurants at 9 or 10 pm. What? No wonder the little monsters nap more than their allotted “naptime.”
I can’t sit in smoking sections: either there aren’t any, or parents bring their kids into them. Also, smoking is gross.
I also tried, instead of going out more often, to limit restaurant meals to ones at “fancy” restaurants. Surely there would be no ill-behaved toddlers there. HAH! Wrong. When I was little, if we went to a place with a tablecloth, and we didn’t use our manners and what today’s parents call “inside voices,” there were consequences. Consequences, I tell you! And if my parents had to remove us from *anywhere* we ate (which they did voluntarily if we became more than reasonably disruptive for kids our age — how’s THAT for respectful?) there were also consequences. Shitty parents don’t even know the meaning of the words “respectful” and “consequences.”
you sound like a crybaby your self.
Yes! Agree. Nail this to every door.
If the parents don’t get it, nail it to their foreheads.
HMMMM……If I remmeber correctly this is a topic that we have ventured on before, and you aready know my stance on this.
I agree with Koala. Which is weird because he is a marsupial. Whatev.
You can sometimes get into trouble agreeing with a marsupial. You’re walking along, and then BAM they pull something out of that pocket.
OMG, I heartily endorse this message. For one thing, I was at the H-E-B today, and they had a very airline-ish message saying “Please do not leave your personal belongings or children unattended.” Um, HELLO? DO NOT BRING YOUR FUCKING CHILDREN TO THE STORE, PERIOD! No one wants to listen to the screaming of your bastard offspring. People who are shopping for groceries, who have brain cells anyway, want to get in and get out. Not constantly run into your fucking screaming child in EVERY. SINGLE. AISLE.
KILL!!!! (And they wonder why people think abortion should be legal?!)
Don’t forget, at least 80% of the little rug rats are spreading some kind of awful disease and bacteria which they love to leave behind on every damn thing there grubby little claws touch.
Then we have to spend the next 2 weeks fighting it off.
Ahhhhhhh! Must wash hands now.
I hate when parents of rowdy kids use the “kids are like that, I can’t do anything about it, if you don’t like it then don’t go to family-friendly places” excuse- it’s a big crock of crap. Yes, sometimes kids do weird crazy things you wouldn’t expect and it causes problems. Sometimes kids misbehave or act up. But when I was a kid-and now when I’m out with my friends and their kids-the kid gets removed or at least scolded when this happens. I’m sympathetic when I see small children do dumb things and their parents react appropriately. I am not sympathetic when their parents look on without moving or, worse, produce a monotonous and half-hearted “hey, stop that” and then ignore the fact that the kid is not listening.
I don’t have kids, true, but my friends have small children now (god I’m getting old) and I know it’s hard ’cause I see them struggle sometimes. I understand. Really, I do. Having kids is hard and that’s how it is, and that’s a lot of why I do not have them. In fact, it’s ALL of why I do not have them. It’s really, really difficult. But just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s okay for your kids to disrupt things and create unpleasant experiences for everyone else.
Ok. If these parents are so uncaring what makes you think the father isn’t going to knock the shit out of you when you talk to his kids or him like such a “tough guy”?
That is fucking brilliant. To the rest of the commenters: curse more, you are not being angry enough and you are a fucking disgrace. Curse where it’s due. Curse like you mean it.
Fucking tired, already.
People need to discipline their goddamned kids. Also, knowing child development helps to avoid behavior like this from kids that are young and become easily overstimulated. I say parents need to control and take responsibility for their child’s behavior. I am currently pregnant with my first at age 29, but used to be a nanny. I never allowed the children to behave in such a way. I have no problem with putting a four year old running wild in the stroller. I also have no problem with a well placed spanking or a time-out right in the store after a first warning (sometimes you get no warnings with me). Unlike other people I follow through. I don’t care if their kid has ADD/ADHD and autism is not an excuse and is not that common. If they have an autistic child they should sit closer to the door, ask for a to go box at the beginning and leave if they are getting overstimulated. Just because they don’t want to cook and clean does not mean that I should have to watch and listen to their little heathens tear up the store. They are lucky that I don’t spank them for poor parenting, and need to stop whining when more restaurants go “childfree” because they won’t discipline their children. On a final note if people started teaching their kids more respect along with having children play outside by themselves their kids would not be overly hyper. We are keeping kids too cooped up now and we’re all paying for it.