Has Anyone ever had an embarrassing moment with a child in WDW?

[Vanryan]

When my ds son was 3.5 we were at AKL. We happened to start talking with a woman who was from a town maybe 5 minutes from ours. She called her husband over and the fours of us stat talking and my little guy drooped his shorts and peed right in the kiddie pool!

 

[gigi1313]

my ds (2.5 yo at the time) had a mini-melt-down waiting for PotC ride at MK, so he and i left the line as he was being miserable... as i carried this thrashing crying boy thru the line some lady looked at her dh and said "that child looks like he needs a beating" and i responded "and you look intelligent... guess we're both wrong" and walked away! i felt no victory as a mom helping her son, but i felt quite victorious over that wicked woman! LOL!

 

[kerry34]

Good for you !!! It amazes me how some people act toward small children. I was in Wal-Mart with my five kids one time, at this time my twins were about 4 months old and all my other kids were 7, 5, 4 yrs. They were standing with me at the checkout, behaving, and this woman came up to me with such a look of disgust on her face and asked me if all of the kids were mine. I said yes, she scoffed and said well better you than me. I said to her yes I agree. God must have thought the same as he blessed me with all these healthy children. She looked at me like she thought I was nuts for saying that. She didnt have anything else to say after that.

 

[blowinbubbles]

Originally posted by kerry34
**snip** I said yes, she scoffed and said well better you than me. I said to her yes I agree. God must have thought the same as he blessed me with all these healthy children. She looked at me like she thought I was nuts for saying that. She didnt have anything else to say after that.

LOL, she probably couldn't figure out whether or not you had just insulted her! hehe. . .

 

[DisneyMomx7]

It amazes me how other people feel the need to get involved in your parenting. My kids have had some small meltdowns at DW (they usually were just too exhausted and we needed to go back to the room for a nap/swim). Whenever I see a child having a meltdown my thought is "I feel for that mother, because we've all been there!" As to people making unwanted comments, I have seven children (27-4) and people always feelt he need to ask me if I'm crazy. Especially since there is an 11 year gap between the 4th and the 5th. I make them feel really bad because I tell them (the truth) that I had cancer and the doctors' thought the chemo would make me unable to have more children. After I miraculously (although quiet unexpectedly) got pregnant with our 5th child we felt that we didn't want her growing up like an only child so we have the 6th and 7th. Since I stay home and take care of our children and my husband makes good money and we are able to support them I really don't understand why it bothers or disgusts some people about how many children we have.

 

[blowinbubbles]

Originally posted by DisneyMomx7
It amazes me how other people feel the need to get involved in your parenting. My kids have had some small meltdowns at DW (they usually were just too exhausted and we needed to go back to the room for a nap/swim). Whenever I see a child having a meltdown my thought is "I feel for that mother, because we've all been there!" As to people making unwanted comments, I have seven children (27-4) and people always feelt he need to ask me if I'm crazy. Especially since there is an 11 year gap between the 4th and the 5th. I make them feel really bad because I tell them (the truth) that I had cancer and the doctors' thought the chemo would make me unable to have more children. After I miraculously (although quiet unexpectedly) got pregnant with our 5th child we felt that we didn't want her growing up like an only child so we have the 6th and 7th. Since I stay home and take care of our children and my husband makes good money and we are able to support them I really don't understand why it bothers or disgusts some people about how many children we have.

Yes, I've seen these same comments on other parenting lists that I'm on. Neither do I understand *why* people make it their business how many kids people have. I would've *loved* to have at least three more kids, but #1 I started late, and #2, my h couldn't *wait* to get to the snip doctor when I got pg with my 2nd!

Oh, and about the discipline thing. . . I *swear*, perfect strangers always have something to say! If you swat your child on the rear, you get dirty looks for "abusing" your child. If you try other methods such as talking to your child, time out or logical consequences, some know-it-all says, "What that child needs is a good beating!" Ugh. . .

 

[Carrie Ellis]

Kerry34,

I will use your reply for now on!! love it!!! I been told this many time also with my 4!!

 

[drewc]

On our first trip with our kids, my older son was just shy of 3. He was so excited by the idea of seeing his favorite characters. Well, at least he was until he got there. Then he shrunk in terror any time a character was in sight. His cowering would turn to tears and screaming if they got too close.

So, we did our best to run interference and keep any characters out of sight. This was of course made difficult by our daughter who was 4 and who would go nuts (in a good way) anytime she saw a character - running over with her autograph book.

So, we were in MGM standing in front of the Sorceror's hat, talking with my family (my parents and sister and her family along with with my wife and kids) about what our next stop would be. DS was in a stroller, just hanging out. We didn't spot the characters coming up behind us. King Louie walked up to our son from behind and tapped him on the shoulder. None of us noticed until just as he reached for him. I actually shouted "No!" (which is pretty funny in and of itself - yelling at a big orangatang). Well, my son turns around to see who is trying to get his attention and when he sees this giant orange furball he proceeds to emit the most piercing, blood curdling scream of terror I have ever heard. King Louie beats a hasty retreat, but not before putting my son into a complete state of panic. People were actually running over to make sure he was OK. You would have thought that King Louie swung down and attacked him from the way he was carrying on. It took about 5 minutes to calm him down and he was extremely wary the rest of the day. We offered to take him back to the hotel and pool, but he wouldn't have it - he wanted to stay.

We've done a couple more trips since then, and it wasn't until this spring (at the age of 5) when he finally was ok with interacting with the costumed characters - and that was only because his fearless little 2.5 year old brother was shaming him into doing it.

 

[AmazingGrace]

Our most embarrassing moment was at the Beir Garten, I was going through the buffet when suddenly I hear an ear piercing scream, "I WANT MEATBALLS NOW!!!!!" My precious dainty little princess was throwing the mother of all fits because there were no meatballs on the buffet. I thought she was going to kick the server's butt all the way back to Germany. I was mortified. I stayed up at the buffet and lewt my hubby deal with it.

 

[POOH&PIGLET]

Originally posted by Carrie Ellis
I was taking my 4 kids (6,6,2,2 at the time) . . .

Wow, two sets of twins!. I have twin brothers & have never encountered anyone with two sets of twins. That's amazing!
I bet you get this type of reaction all the time.

 

[POOH&PIGLET]

Originally posted by DisneyMomx7
Whenever I see a child having a meltdown my thought is "I feel for that mother, because we've all been there!"

This reminded me of a kind-of embarassing incident. On the bus to one of the parks two years age, our oldest DD had the worst fit of her life (& thankfully has never even come close to it since then). For about twenty minutes (it seemed like forever) my DD yelled, screamed, and even hit me!

My DW was so embarassed she moved to the front of the bus. There were only three other people on the bus (a mom, dad, and young girl). When the bus was about to stop, the mom said don't worry, we all have had days like this!

It's so nice when people aren't jerks about kids being upset. It's stressful enough without the comments.