Where were the parents????

[KathyFP]

We were waiting to watch Fantasmic this evening and a trio of teenagers where sitting two rows behind us. The row directly behind us was empty. These three teenagers thought it was funny to tell a women sitting next to us to sit down, she was blocking their view. No it was 6:00, show didn't start for an hour and the woman was taking off her backpack to sit down. Then ...........


They busted a package of ketchup on the sit in front of them and smeared it all over the seat. They were laughing like someone was watching a comedy show. A man sitting close got a CM and the teenagers received a warning.

I just don't understand?????

 

[sunkissed212]

that's what happens when today's children are raised by XBox and Playstation 2

It's sad these days that kids and teens are so disrespectful.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

wow--thats horrible

 

[UnderTheMistletoe]

They WHAT!?!?

I wonder if it's the kids, the parents, the media, or all of it hashed together. They seems to be getting worse, and worse, and worse. I can't believe it when I see 10 and 12 year old girls at the mall in heavy eye make-up, shirts above their belly buttons, jeans 3 inches above their crotch, and a shirt that reads something like, "Your boyfriend is looking at me." Yeah? Apparently your parents aren't to let you out of the house like that...

 

[Piglet4Ever]

Wow, I would have been fuming if I saw that I am 33, when I was a teen doing something like that would never have crossed my mind. I would have been so happy to just be at WDW in the first place. But also my parents did a great job teaching me and my sibs how to behave properly in public.

 

[BYC]

I don't get how the behavior of a group of obnoxious teens can be blamed on anyone or anything but themselves. My kids play video games. They would not smear ketchup on seats and laugh. Every genereation has lamented about how teens today are so out of control. I have 2 of them now,plus a 22 year old, and they are great kids! And so are their friends! I would let them loose in Disney without my supervision, without a worry at all. They are not perfect, and will make their mistakes. These kids that were doing that knew it was wrong and obnoxious, but chose to do it anyway. They are lucky I wasn't there! More than once in my life, I have been known to discipline other peoples kids! Perhaps a little public humiliation would have done the trick!

 

[mkpat]

You are the exception to the rule, but more and more kids are letting television raise them. Also nowadays if you say something to them the parents are the first to defend their kids.

 

[tmt martins]

When I was a teen if I would have done this ( the man ) that got the CM probiley would have just beat my you know what.Your right this is the lack of respect for everything in todays world.
I blame the gov. you can't even disapline your child and they know it .My parents only had to hit me once and then it was just the threat of it that made me go straight.It's sad and only getting worse because now the generation raising the new kids are sitting right there along with their kids doing the same thing and laughing at it.
My DD has and will continue to learn to respect or she will sit on the steps until shes 18 as I tell her what a wonderful trip she missed going to Disney.

 

[boomhauer]

I don't put up with that crap - ESPECIALLY at Disney World. I would have gone to every CM I had to until they kicked those little pukes out. And if they didn't, I'd go right up to them and tell them unless they wanted the butt-whooping of their miserable lives, cut the crap.

 

[jorodopo]

Did the CM make them clean off the seat?? My mother would have had me cleaning the whole place once everyone had left........

 

[seashoreCM]

These three teenagers thought it was funny to tell a women sitting next to us to sit down, she was blocking their view. No it was 6:00, show didn't start for an hour Then ...........

They busted a package of ketchup on the sit in front of them and smeared it all over the seat. A man sitting close got a CM and the teenagers received a warning
I?????

1. Wasteful. Halfway around the world people are starving and would covet packages of ketchup fka tomato extract.

2. Only a warning?

3. When proceeding into an auditorium as the CM announces "move all the way down, filling every available seat" don't follow too closely. The seat you end up in front of may have ketchup on it.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[TinkerbellMama]

Ugh. I, too, discipline other people's kids in public. Usually they are so taken aback and EMBARRASSED that they listen to what I say. Apparently some of them are not used to ANY adult telling them not to act like hooligans. @@ Before I became a SAHM, I was a therapist for adolescents, so I have my "strict but fair teenager command voice" down pat, LOL! In response to another poster, I don't believe in corporal punishment AT ALL, but there are definitely other ways to teach your children proper and kind social behavior. Parents are getting so lazy these days (and so messed up themselves) that children are learning less and less how to act towards others. JMO, but it angers and saddens me all at the same time!!!

 

[The Sweetness]

They WHAT!?!?

I wonder if it's the kids, the parents, the media, or all of it hashed together. They seems to be getting worse, and worse, and worse. I can't believe it when I see 10 and 12 year old girls at the mall in heavy eye make-up, shirts above their belly buttons, jeans 3 inches above their crotch, and a shirt that reads something like, "Your boyfriend is looking at me." Yeah? Apparently your parents aren't to let you out of the house like that...

I have a 14y old girl who is really a good kid. She tries her best in school, and helps out tons at home with chores and baby sitting. I know that my little *angel* would never have smeared a seat in front of her with ketchup, but if a friend who she was with did it, she would laugh, as well as being a bit nervous that she may get in trouble with them.

As for clothes, she has many t-shirts that just barely reach her jeans, or leave a tiny bit of her middle exposed, and does wear low rise jeans(Ive given up on being able to FIND the regular fit ones)They show her navel, but not her... stuff . She also has a t-shirt that syas *hold my purse while I kiss your boyfriend*. It was given to her as a gift by a friend and it is a JOKE (I actually think its funny). She also wears dark gray or black eye make-up daily, and Im used to it. She started last year, and as far as Im concerned, she is modest compared to what some of her friends wear. She is also more well mannered than some of her g/fs

 

[taximomfor4]

I have a 14y old girl who is really a good kid. She tries her best in school, and helps out tons at home with chores and baby sitting. I know that my little *angel* would never have smeared a seat in front of her with ketchup, but if a friend who she was with did it, she would laugh, as well as being a bit nervous that she may get in trouble with them.

As for clothes, she has many t-shirts that just barely reach her jeans, or leave a tiny bit of her middle exposed, and does wear low rise jeans(Ive given up on being able to FIND the regular fit ones)They show her navel, but not her... stuff . She also has a t-shirt that syas *hold my purse while I kiss your boyfriend*. It was given to her as a gift by a friend and it is a JOKE (I actually think its funny). She also wears dark gray or black eye make-up daily, and Im used to it. She started last year, and as far as Im concerned, she is modest compared to what some of her friends wear. She is also more well mannered than some of her g/fs

I won't judge the make-up of a kid... I try very hard to keep appearances separate from WHO the kid is. (I too am shocked upon occasion, but am getting better at shaking it off). I think, though, that the behavior of the kids in the OP was deplorable and a little sad. I do my best raising my kids, and I sincerely HOPE that they have better impulse control as teens than the OP kids did.

 

[bytheblood]

They should have been kicked out.
I would have said something to them.

 

[KathyFP]

The teens cleaned up mess when they were told we were getting an CM. Our attempts to intervene were unsuccessful. They just lied and said they didn't do it and laughed.

As a teen, I pushed the limits, but never in a way that way so disrespectful to others.

 

[JESW]

Well, they probably have the same type of parents as the two 11/12 year old boys we saw in august. They sat in the front row of COP and were loud and obnoxious throughout the entire show. The finale was when they both grabbed the stage, which then set off something that made several cm's come running. The show was shut down for a while just because these two UNSUPERVISED KIDS thought they were doing something funny.

Jill

 

[Feralpeg]

I agree that you cannot judge a teen by the makeup they wear. I also do not judge their clothing unless they are wearing something that is totally rude or crude. My DD's best friend is Goth. She wears only black and wears heavy dark makeup. She is the sweetest most respectful teen I've ever met. On the other hand, there are other kids that attended her last school who dress conservatively, but are rude and totally disrespectful. Of course, they don't act that way in front of their parents. I would go to the school to help out during drama rehearsals. I couldn't believe some of the things I heard. When their moms would show up, they were completely different kids.

It is a shame that some kids act the way they do, but try not to use appearance as a measure. You could be making a wrong assumption. I admit I don't know the answer to raising perfect kids. I also know that the parents of some of the kids I've seen act up are very attentive nice people. I don't know why one set of kids acts out and another doesn't. I think a lot of it is hanging in groups. Alone, most of the kids would be very nice.

 

[Tink215]

I just think behavior like that is just so sad......I have lots of neices and nephews, and freinds who have teenage kids and never have i seen behavior like that. I beleive that its not the Xbox and Tv's fault, there are just machines we plug in to entertain the kids, but some one had buy it and plug it in and it was the parents, so dont blame the machines, blame the people not being responsible for raising their children properly and relying machine to raise their kids!!!!

 

[salmoneous]

Oh for Pete's sake. Does anybody here *really* think kids 10, 20, 50 years ago wouldn't speak rudely to an adult or spread ketchup on a seat? Every generation seems to forget their wildness and view the past with rose colored glasses.

Look, I'm not saying what these kids did was acceptable, or that kids today don't do some things that wouldn't have been done in the past. Just that this isn't really an example of that.