MushyMushy
Marseeya Here!
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- Jul 2, 2006
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Holy cow, it's been hours and I'm still shaking my head over what I witnessed earlier today.
Took my daughter clothes shopping and we were in Rue21. In the fitting room, we could hear small children screaming and laughing and having races up and down the aisles. The adult with them (later came to find it was their mother) was calling them princesses and kept sending them out to the store for their "crowns." I could tell just from inside the dressing booth that they were way out of control.
I went out to stand in line (about 10 people in line at that point) while my daughter looked around at jewelry and this was the first look I got of the kids. They were around 2 & 3, really tiny kids, but the rowdiest little ones I've honestly ever seen! They were terrorizing everyone in line and the mother was FINE with it, and encouraging them to find more "princess crowns," which turned out to be headbands. At this point, everyone in the line was getting ticked off and were complaining amongst themselves.
The mother TOSSED the headbands onto an endcap, and then sent the girls to a rack of necklaces, where the little ones started playing with them. They were quiet for all of a minute, when next thing you know, the youngest started tearing the necklaces off the rack and throwing them all over the floor, scrambling them up with their hands and feet and really having a blast with it. A whole RACK full of necklaces!
The other customers were complaining LOUDLY at this point, so I spoke up to the mother and said, "Ma'am, your daughters are throwing the necklaces on the floor." She just looked at me like I had two heads and said to the girls in a sweet voice, "Awww, princess, did they fall?" This other woman spoke up and said, "NO, they didn't fall, the girls are destroying that display!" The mom turned right around to a busy clerk and said that the display fell and she needed to go clean it up.
While the poor clerk was trying to untangle the mess, the girls went to ANOTHER display and started pulling those necklaces down.
People were trying to get mom's attention again, until finally the clerk told the girls to stop playing with them and go stand by their mother. Surprisingly, they listened nicely, but mom was angry.
Everyone in the line was just so disgusted and appalled at the mother (some at the kids, which I pointed out wasn't their fault) and they continued to be completely out of control all the way out the store.
I seriously have never seen anything even close to that bad before, even when I worked retail. The closest was a college professor's kids -- the parents were raising them in a "positive" environment, meaning they would never speak to them in negatives, ever. I mean, you didn't tell these kids "no." Ever. This woman seemed to have the same attitude with her kids.
My daughter said to me later that she never wanted to babysit or have kids.
I just laughed and told her that kids are great, you just need to tell them no once in a while. 
Took my daughter clothes shopping and we were in Rue21. In the fitting room, we could hear small children screaming and laughing and having races up and down the aisles. The adult with them (later came to find it was their mother) was calling them princesses and kept sending them out to the store for their "crowns." I could tell just from inside the dressing booth that they were way out of control.
I went out to stand in line (about 10 people in line at that point) while my daughter looked around at jewelry and this was the first look I got of the kids. They were around 2 & 3, really tiny kids, but the rowdiest little ones I've honestly ever seen! They were terrorizing everyone in line and the mother was FINE with it, and encouraging them to find more "princess crowns," which turned out to be headbands. At this point, everyone in the line was getting ticked off and were complaining amongst themselves.
The mother TOSSED the headbands onto an endcap, and then sent the girls to a rack of necklaces, where the little ones started playing with them. They were quiet for all of a minute, when next thing you know, the youngest started tearing the necklaces off the rack and throwing them all over the floor, scrambling them up with their hands and feet and really having a blast with it. A whole RACK full of necklaces!
The other customers were complaining LOUDLY at this point, so I spoke up to the mother and said, "Ma'am, your daughters are throwing the necklaces on the floor." She just looked at me like I had two heads and said to the girls in a sweet voice, "Awww, princess, did they fall?" This other woman spoke up and said, "NO, they didn't fall, the girls are destroying that display!" The mom turned right around to a busy clerk and said that the display fell and she needed to go clean it up.
While the poor clerk was trying to untangle the mess, the girls went to ANOTHER display and started pulling those necklaces down.
People were trying to get mom's attention again, until finally the clerk told the girls to stop playing with them and go stand by their mother. Surprisingly, they listened nicely, but mom was angry. Everyone in the line was just so disgusted and appalled at the mother (some at the kids, which I pointed out wasn't their fault) and they continued to be completely out of control all the way out the store.
I seriously have never seen anything even close to that bad before, even when I worked retail. The closest was a college professor's kids -- the parents were raising them in a "positive" environment, meaning they would never speak to them in negatives, ever. I mean, you didn't tell these kids "no." Ever. This woman seemed to have the same attitude with her kids.
My daughter said to me later that she never wanted to babysit or have kids.
I just laughed and told her that kids are great, you just need to tell them no once in a while. 
