Watch your own child

[tiggger1]

I worked at my daughter's dance recital this weekend. During one of the shows, we were overloaded with little ones..I think there were 40 little one.( Tiny tots who are 3, preschool who are 4, and kinder who are 5-6)

One class of tinys where horrible. They didnt listen at all, cried and threw fits when you told them no ( and no none of their parents stayed signed up to help)

During the dress rehearsal, the kids start with the finale first so after there number they can leave. So one mom comes and gets her tiny tot after her number. She gets her some candy, a juice and takes her into the audience to watch the show. about 20 minutes later the moms comes back to the door and tells me " she is driving me nuts. she doesn't want to sit still, she wants to play with her friends. Ill come get after the dress is over,...( meanwhile it is already 9pm)

She wasn't too thrilled when I told her no and that I wasn't a babysitter and since she already checked her out her daughter couldnt come back in the dressing room!

 

[JR6ooo4]

I HATE THAT!!!!!!!!!

Aaarrgghhhhhh!

A couple of weeks ago DHs company had a big bbq and I found 2 kids by themselves near the bouncy house.

First it was a 2yo girl. I noticed her just standing to the side looking lost.I went to her and asked where her momma was and her lip quivered and she shook her head. We started paging for her and she came from clear on the other side of the ball field!!

Then it was a boy about 3/4 years old. He straight out came up to me and said "I can't find my mom" so we started paging for her and after 15 minutes her and her DH showed up! 15 minutes!!!!!!!!!!

Next weekend we are going to another company bbq at a lake and I am terrified that some kid is going to go missing and we'll find them at the bottom of the lake.

three quarters of a year old!!! That is definitely too young to be alone. Hehehehehehee

Mikeeee

 

[ajk912]

Oh, definitely!!! I love this thread, I can add a book to it!!

Same issues as others with the sports practices/games. Yes, I bring coloring books and books for my other kids to keep them entertained while the other kids practice. NO, that does NOT mean that your kid can come along and color every.single.time. I understand the first time, you didn't think to bring something. That I get. But no, not everytime. Bring your own coloring books and entertain your OWN kids, instead of sending them off to sit/play with the other kids, while I am trying to entertain my own kids while watching my other kids play!

Or the neighbor kids. Omg. I think it's SOOO rude to let your kids play in someone else's yard when those kids/adults are NOT outside, let alone giving permission. WTH??? These 8 and 5 year olds from down the street think it's ok to play in my yard and my neighbor's yard whenever they want. Yesterday I told them to stop playing with my other neighbor's water to fill their water guns, that they aren't home. They did go home, but what the heck, where are their parents? Oh, they are sitting on the porch watching from 5 houses away. That's NOT enough. You have to be WITH the kids, or at least checking with someone around to make sure it's ok. For the first time in 3 years I have closed the gates to my backyard when my kids aren't out there, to keep these kids out of my backyard. Especially when I am not home/watching, and my neighbors on either side of me aren't home either, so there isn't anybody within eyesight for at least 3 houses. And with all the trees and my fence, you can't even hear them, let alone see them.

I know the rest of us are OUTSIDE with our kids, around. My kids play in MY yard or right in front of my house unless I am WITH them. And they are the same ages. Not wandering around the block.

 

[Disney Doll]

We had a pool inour yard as akid (the only one on the street) and it got to the point where my mother made the rule "If your kid is in my pool, you (the parent) are in my yard watching your kid". We'd have 10 kidsin the yard, my mother would be watching all of them, and all the other mothers would be hoime getting all kinds of stuff done because they had no kids underfoot. And God forbid any one of them brought a bag of cookies or something.