I Can't Stand Parents That Let Their Kids

[auntpolly]

Poopyhead.

Oh my, good thing I know how to remove tags! This is a tag waiting to happen!!!!

 

[Brad&Kryssi]

I'm also one of those parents who taught their children to sit and behave...it's all about manners.

What I find funny is...now that I don't have little ones anymore, I really don't mind other people's kids. Maybe it's just being sentimental but while I was eating at one of the restaurants this little boy just kept jumping up, touching me, talking to me, making faces...you get the idea. The father was doing all he could while handling another one and he just looked mortified and apologized over and over.

I just had to laugh and actually talked to the little boy and he finally got bored of me and sat down.

Gist of this rambling is...I understand how hard it is for anyone to control their kids and, if they're making a serious effort, I respect it and laugh with them.

 

[Hannathy]

Aunt Polly I would have lost those friends that night 'cause there is no way a 4 yr old would have continued to do that to me. I would have done what you did first then I would have had a confidential talk to the child in his ear stating what I was going to do to him the next time he did those things! Let them get mad at me or leave so what you couldn't of been having any fun any way! I probably would have got up picked him up and deposited him in the lap of whichever parent was farther away. Have fun with your new friends.

 

[Shutterbug]

Last weekend that table was me! and I was mortified. We went to dinner with friends and their 4 year old. I hadn't seen them for about 6 months and hadn't spent time with the son for longer than that. But this kid was sooooooooooo terrible, and I got stuck with him!!! ("Go sit by auntie polly, sweetie" said the mom! -- she's no dummy!)

He spit at me, grabbed my ****s all night, called me a poopyhead about 1000 times over and over and over and over, pulled my hair, spilled stuff, and generally made a spectacle of me and the whole table. I must have said, 100 times, "Caroline, can you help me out here?" or "Jack, do you see what your son is doing?" and they laughed and just probably thought, "Better her than me!"

I'm breaking up with these friends. I have no choice.

Are you sure it was an actual child and not a chimpanzee?

 

[auntpolly]

Aunt Polly I would have lost those friends that night 'cause there is no way a 4 yr old would have continued to do that to me. I would have done what you did first then I would have had a confidential talk to the child in his ear stating what I was going to do to him the next time he did those things! Let them get mad at me or leave so what you couldn't of been having any fun any way! I probably would have got up picked him up and deposited him in the lap of whichever parent was farther away. Have fun with your new friends.

Oh, that sounds fun just thinking about it!!!! LOL!! I think I was just so stunned and overwhelmed. I remember thinking, "Now I understand parents who spank, because I'd love to slap this kid silly!"

I wasn't kidding about breaking up with them. I told DH, "never again!" and he knows how stubborn I am!!!!!

 

[auntpolly]

Are you sure it was an actual child and not a chimpanzee?

Do I have you all's permission to send these posts to the mom? I think she should see them.....

 

[momrek06]

DH & I were in WDW in Feb. One night we ate at LTT. We had a late dinner (that was said to tell you all the place had been very busy and FULL of people all evening long) reservation.

We were seated and I started looking around the room we were in and all the characters coming and going and I noticed allot of noise from a table across from me. As I looked over there I realized that there was a 6 yo sitting UNDER THE TABLE, LYING ON THE FLOOR UNDER THE TABLE, EATING HER FOOD UNDER THE TABLE. I came to realize she did not like the characters and was afraid of them and her parents ALLOWED her to spend the EVENING UNDER THE TABLE.

Her family was VERY LOUD. I could hear everything they were saying. And every time a character came by SHE SCREAMED and the fam all LAUGHED out loud. It was really strange behavior.

I would just love to know the germ factor under THAT table that their DD sat under all night (lying and eating as well). She kept touching the underside of the table. (Remember this was the LAST seating of the night, many many WDW families had already sat at THAT table).

EWWWWWWWWWW!!!! GROSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

All along I am saying to myself (no way in this WORLD in one million years would either of my DS' be sitting down there) JUST WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED BY ME!

I guess different strokes for different folks.

 

[Christine]

DH & I were in WDW in Feb. One night we ate at LTT. We had a late dinner (that was said to tell you all the place had been very busy and FULL of people all evening long) reservation.

We were seated and I started looking around the room we were in and all the characters coming and going and I noticed allot of noise from a table across from me. As I looked over there I realized that there was a 6 yo sitting UNDER THE TABLE, LYING ON THE FLOOR UNDER THE TABLE, EATING HER FOOD UNDER THE TABLE. I came to realize she did not like the characters and was afraid of them and her parents ALLOWED her to spend the EVENING UNDER THE TABLE.

Her family was VERY LOUD. I could hear everything they were saying. And every time a character came by SHE SCREAMED and the fam all LAUGHED out loud. It was really strange behavior.

I would just love to know the germ factor under THAT table that their DD sat under all night (lying and eating as well). She kept touching the underside of the table. (Remember this was the LAST seating of the night, many many WDW families had already sat at THAT table).

EWWWWWWWWWW!!!! GROSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

All along I am saying to myself (no way in this WORLD in one million years would either of my DS' be sitting down there) JUST WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED BY ME!

I guess different strokes for different folks.

Okay, I just had to add: When my DD was 3.5 we were at WDW and having breakfast at "the castle." This was our first trip to Disney with DD and it was our first-ever character. Well, the Seven Dwarfs proceeded come out and up to our table and my DD freaked. She slipped under the table so fast and wouldn't come out. One of the Dwarfs kept peeking under the table at her and trying to get her to come out. She was terrified. However, as soon as they left, she came back out to her seat. No way would I have let her stay under there. No way.

 

[drakethib]

Oh good grief. My mom would have "taken me outside" then brought me back in to clean it up. It would have been the first and the last time I ever pulled a stunt like that.

My mom would not have bothered taking me outside. I would have gotten a whack right then and there.

 

[va32h]

But I think some people just don't want to give it up and they let their kids run rampant.

And some people just don't want to get up and deal with their kids!

Some parents are just plain lazy. One of the ugly secrets about child-rearing is that it is time-consuming. You have to get up and make the little darlings behave sometimes. Or remove them from the situation. Or leave altogether.

It doesn't just happen in restaurants, I've been in people's homes where they just sit on the couch and call out "now stop that" while the children try to kill each other and tear apart the house.