What's the Most selfish Thing your Child has ever Said or Done

[Jodi1980]

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[mmausse]

I don't have kids, but last year I took my 16yo niece to Disney.

She asked if she could have all my money when I die.

I told her I was taking it with me.

 

[Trinity721]

mmausse, good answer

My DD isn't old enough to say rude things (but I'm sure she'll say something one of these days!). But a friend told me that her Mom took her brothers' daughter to WDW. They are 12 and 15 and it was their first time there. She took them there for the whole day, and they wanted to ride Space Mountain over and over. Ok, but there is a lot more to do there. When their dad came to pick them up after they got home, he asked them how it was. They said "eh, it was ok. We would have had more fun at a carnival". RUDE! After the grandmother had paid for the entire day and bought them souvenirs.... Geeez. And they didn't even say thank you....

 

[lulubelle]

I pay a Housecleaning Service to clean our house every Monday and a few weeks ago DD17 had some uhh.."residue" in her toilet in her bathroom and I suggested she use a clorox wipe to clean it up and she proclaimed "but mom, that is what the maids are for!". I about fell off of my chair. What have I done, how will she cope when she has her own place? I guess I need to teach her the basics of "Housekeeping 101". I mean any girl (or boy) should be able to scrub a toilet, windex a mirror, scour a sink, vacuum a floor, clean a baseboard, and I fear my DD has no clue

She does know how to do laundry and dishes though! So, there is hope at least Somehow I feel ashamed writing this thread.

 

[Amberle3]

Not my kid, but a relative. Peed on the carpeting in the livingroom of another relative because "he had to go". Kid was definitely beyond the toilet training stage (about 6 or 7), bathroom was about 12 feet away. He has no developmental issues other than continuing to be totally self-centered. When his father found out what he had done he said "Well, don't do that again".

Same child also has a tendency to literally push other kids out of his way, even if there's ample room to go around, and last time he was in town spent the entire visit glued to the TV playing video games, I think he's 11 now. Wouldn't ask, he'd just go turn on the TV, sit down and play.

Now frankly I think that others in my family are far too lenient with him, I'm be turning the TV off and telling him that until he learned/used some manners he wouldn't be playing games at all.

Said child was in a serious accident skiing earlier this year (on the second of the three week+ long vacations the kids were pulled out of school for) and has required I think 2 surgeries so far and another one coming up this fall. Whenever he doesn't get his way he now plays the "poor me, I'm injured" card.

The other 2 vacations last year were a cruise and a trip to Hawaii. And the mother is planning on taking him to Europe this fall. Both parents work and yes they make okay money, but they live above their means. The father obviously also has not learned that sometimes there are things more important than what he wants.

 

[pjlla]

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this, but here goes....

For our mission project for VBS we collected food for our town's new food pantry. At the end of the week my children (DD 9 and DS 6) helped me load the food in my car and take it to the food pantry. We made several trips from the car into the pantry building carrying bags/boxes of food. I thanked my children and we went home.

When we got home I found out that my DS "kept" a box of chocolate pudding mix. His excuse, when confronted, was.... "you never buy this for me....blah, blah". I was pretty mad, to say the least. I explained to him that he basically STOLE this from a hungry child!! We had a long talk about right and wrong and such. And we will be bringing that box of pudding mix, along with many other items, to our food pantry this week.!................P

 

[slo]

Yesterday when we were leaving the mall we saw a homeless man walking next to cars with a sign asking for money because he was hungry.

Later that night my 6yr old DD walked up to me with a dish asking for money - mocking the homeless man. I told her we don't make fun of people less fortunate than us and that she should say a prayer everyday thanking God that she has a home to live in and food to fill her belly.

I was shocked to see this behavior because I felt that I taught her that we should help these people and not make fun of them. I'm just hoping that now that I didn't find her performance funny that she will understand that we don't make fun of those less fortunate.

 

[Disney Doll]

You know what though...kids don't always knw how to properly behave, and we understand that. All of you who have told your stories also have done the one good thing to teach them proper behavior...you ahve taught them proper behavior!!! By telling your child you don't mock those less fortunate, or by telling your child he stole from a hungry child and now you will donate that puddding and more, you are teaching by exampe.

I have a SIL who, thank God, lives 1500 miles away. She has 2 children, and teaches them nothing other than they are God's gift to humanity, they should do whatever it takes to get their needs met. I shudder to think how these children will grow up. Any bad behavior is not corrected...she looks at us and says "well, he's 5" or "he's 6". Yes!!!!!!! We know they are young children and when young children behave badly they need to be told, taught, instructed, guided whatever you want to call it so they recognize that their behavior is not acceptable, and that is the parents job. Clearly, there are many parents in the world(my own SIL included) who don't have a clue how to parent. Sad for the future of their kids. I firmly believe that my 2 nephews will be very socially isolated in years to come, because they will behave badly, others will not want to spend time with them, and they will not understand why, since they have never been taught.

 

[grinningghost]

Embarrassed to say it was just last week.

DD belongs to a community service youth group. She recently got her friend into it. The friend went along on a couple of activities. After we dropped the friend off after one of them, DD says, "I really don't like it when she's at the activities".

I gave her a look of disgust and said "You're the one who encouraged her to join".

Her response "Yeah, but it's like she's TAKING OVER everything".

Selfish, stupid, rude. I did let her have it on this one.