Some parents... Geez! Just a little venting

[North of Mouse]

A person looses their right to tune it out the day their child is born. It is the parents resposibiltiy to monitor their child so that they are not a harm to themselves or others. And also to teach their childeren what is acceptable in society. When I was a kid we traveled a lot and I loved jumping on the beds in hotels but you can believe I never would have done it when my parents were looking because I know I would have gotten in trouble.

My parents taught me to be respectful of people and their property. Jumping on a sofa damages it and it is not appropriate behavior in that type of environment. Unfortunately some people want to let their kids act like they are at the McDonalds Play Place even when they are in a much nicer atmosphere.

Wholeheartedly agree!!

 

[dvczerfs]

I'm generally the pack mule when we get to the parks. On our way back into MK after a mid-day resort swim break, dh and the kids veered off towards the regular/no-bag entrance and I headed to the bag check line. As I approached, I saw that one side of the table was free and the other side had a couple of people waiting. I walked up to the "free" side. Guy that was 2nd in line on the other side says in a really nasty tone, "uh, there's a line here." And I smiled (ok, so it was probably a nasty smile back) and said, "yeah, and both sides of the table are used." The security bag checker cheerily told him "yep."

Same thing has happened to us numerous times in QS locations as well where both sides of the cashier are used for ordering. People are admonishing others for "cutting" because they don't know that both sides are used.

those are the two places in the mk that have great entertainment. we don't do bag check anymore, if it don't fit in the pocket, it don't go but if I walk up to a qs line and it has the single file line, ill tell the person at the end of the line the other side is open. if they look at me and don't go, I do. hey, I tried. for the most part the cms let the guest fight it out with themselves. in most cases it passes. people realize some people are just rude and go about there vacation.
its a right of passage for the college kids in the mk to work a crew shift. crew are the cms you see that do crowd parade control if you will. they have on a dark vest and dark pants with a white shirt. just about anyone who is employed there can pick up a shift in crew. so dd had to try it. texted me at 2am one night and said never again.lol
now remember, these cms don't own the place, they are told what to do. there was a lady standing in the taped off walk way by the curb ramp. dd told the lady nicely she had to move. the lady told her if she was big enough to move her, go ahead. after she threaten another cm, security came out, not the old guys with the badges,the plan clothed dudes and told her mam, you are going to move one way or the other. long story short...... she was moved!!!

 

[freckles04]

This happened to me too lol. I walked up to the left side of the bag checking table & the people on the right side looked at me & sneered! They had a first visit button so I just smiled at them & figured they'll figure it out soon enough lol. If not oh well they'll be sneering their whole WDW vacation. Guess I could of informed them of the process but they sneered at me so...

I too have been the victim of sneers for this! No one has ever said anything yet, but if looks could kill...!

 

[juliebug1997]

Chasing over a duck gets a "you shouldn't do that" comment from either my husband or myself. I've never seen a child at Disney actually make contact with a a duck but even a kicking motion has a very stern "NO!" coming from one of us. Whether the parent is there or not. But then we follow up with the reason why we reacted like we did - the duck cannot talk and how would the child feel if someone older and bigger than him/her did the same to them? We don't say something and then just move away. Sometimes a child is just in his/her own world and doesn't realize things. And sometimes parents are in their own world and don't realize what their children are doing.

Now, if it was a situation where the parent was being stupid and encouraging their child to do something like that, we would have words for the parent, not the child. Fortunately, it's never come to that but kicking a harmless duck who really can't fight back is just stupid.

Plus, if the kid was bitten by that duck since the duck would do what a duck normally does, Disney would be sued. And then I'd have to appear in court and testify to what I saw the kid do to the duck.

DBro and I were at Fort Wilderness shopping after HDDR and caught some kids throwing rocks at the rabbits. We kept quiet until one of them hit the bunny and my brother lost it. Parents were either nowhere to be found or couldn't be bothered to be parents.

 

[trainingupmy4princes]

Gosh, there's a big difference between ignoring your wild child at home and tuning out him jumping like a maniac on the furniture, and your child doing it in public, on someone else's furniture, when there are people who are not related to you that have to witness/hear/see it.

I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, so I will say: Bad Parenting!

PS: The person I quoted is not a bad parent. I was just gently disagreeing with their 'devil's advocate' stance.

One thing even my spectrum kids know is that we treat other people's belongings (including furniture) better than our own. While my kids have gotten a little wild at times and forgotten, I definitely call them out on it.

 

[PeterPanic]

My parents used to threaten not only that but to put me in 'juvenile hall'...is that even a thing? I'd hope not, at least for not cleaning one's room...

Nothing really ever changes. When I was a kid the threat was being sent to reform school or when I was younger, to the orphanage. It's part of the parent arsenal.

P.S. In fairness, it was only used in the most extreme of cases. I had a tendency to not listen real closely.

 

[disnut8]

DBro and I were at Fort Wilderness shopping after HDDR and caught some kids throwing rocks at the rabbits. We kept quiet until one of them hit the bunny and my brother lost it. Parents were either nowhere to be found or couldn't be bothered to be parents.

We wouldn't have kept quiet at all. We would have told them to stop and asked how the kids would feel if rocks were thrown at them by someone bigger and they couldn't tell the bigger person to stop.

As I said, if a kid is doing something stupid that can harm someone or something else, they need to be told to stop and if the parent isn't going to do it, then another adult should. However, they should also be told WHY they should stop. Yelling at a kid and saying "stop doing that!" and then walking away helps no one.

 

[lustergirl]

I'm lucky because my hubby is a sheriff deputy and he's way more antisocial than I am. It works well for us!!

Along those lines, my former job was a death investigator for the county. Don't want to share those stories with the neighbors. So I can get where he is coming from.