A warning to parents

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The natives where I live use Walmart as a baby sitting service. They will drop them off like Walmart is a play ground, give the kid 5 bucks to buy a happy meal, and come get them 10 or 12 hours later.

Not uncommon at all to find kids sleeping in the pillow box, playing with the balls or even taking a new bike for a ride in the store. If they get to troublesome they are taken to a back room where I guess they are fed and held until a parental unit shows up looking for them.
 
Zeldman said:
The natives where I live use Walmart as a baby sitting service. They will drop them off like Walmart is a play ground, give the kid 5 bucks to buy a happy meal, and come get them 10 or 12 hours later.

Not uncommon at all to find kids sleeping in the pillow box, playing with the balls or even taking a new bike for a ride in the store. If they get to troublesome they are taken to a back room where I guess they are fed and held until a parental unit shows up looking for them.
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Where, exactly, is it that you live? This is painfully odd.
 
I live near the indian reservation in New Mexico. May be odd to some but it is normal in the first americans world.

Yeah, it sometimes really tears me up to see what appears to be a neglected child. But they have been doing things like that for many, many centuries.

And not all are like that. The good parents are not seen because they do not let their kids run wild.
 
You guys are pragmatic, I like that.
If I mention anything about bratty kids around the office, all the breeders get offended and call me names, including "kid hater" etc. Some people really shouldn't be parents. *rolleyes*

Yes, a free puppy and a shot of espresso would do. But then you'd probably go to jail for child endangerment or some other BS charge. ;)
 
Really old joke...been seeing that one around various places for more than a decade.

Of course, giving a kid a shot of espresso is a really good way to quiet them down....
 
One thing that really irritates me is that parents take their kids to establishments that are primarily bars these days and it seems to be legal in a lot of states as long as the bar serves food. It used to be that in most states that they could not even be in the bar area of any restaurant and there had to be some sort of wall or barrier between the main dining area and the bar. No more. :mad:
 
As WCFields once said,anyone who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad.
 
SkyDog58 said:
One thing that really irritates me is that parents take their kids to establishments that are primarily bars these days and it seems to be legal in a lot of states as long as the bar serves food. It used to be that in most states that they could not even be in the bar area of any restaurant and there had to be some sort of wall or barrier between the main dining area and the bar. No more. :mad:
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It used to be .... in the early 70s.

I remember walking through Vegas casinos as a kid in the mid 70s. The cops didn't like it if you loitered, but if you have ever tried to get from anywhere to anywhere in Vegas, you can't avoid the casinos entirely. Not even in the fricken' airport.
 
I remember that when I was a kid, acting up in public and especially in a restaurant was a cardinal sin. It simply wasn't tolerated, you were either getting smacked or hauled out to the parking lot for worse. Also, to be fair here in my small rural area it still isn't tolerated for the most part. Kids are expected to behave in public with the occasional exception.... and everyone knows and points out "that kid" when it does happen.

However, seems like almost every time I venture into a public area around a city like say Chicago or St Louis there's always one pack of kids running around annoying everyone and the parents are either absent or just plain ignoring it. I was once sitting in a restaurant waiting area and this lady's kids were running all over screaming, and literally crawling right over my lap. Her kids were literally crawling right over other people.... complete strangers. She didn't even say one word.... I was just in shock. I thought surely she just was distracted... surely any moment now she's going to be dragging these monsters outside and they'll return sullen with tears streaming down their face. Nope... didn't even care. In retrospect I really should have said something but a combination of being young and unsure of myself, raised midwestern polite, and a racial component to this that I really didn't want to deal with stopped me.
 
When I go out to dinner with my family, particularly at an upper scale restaurant for what we intend to be a peaceful dinner after a long day, the last thing we want is a couple of little children who scream at F sharp to be seated next to us. If you are taking your kids into public, especially to a restaurant people pay good money to dine at, be PARENTS and make them behave appropriately.
 
MAKG1 said:
It used to be .... in the early 70s.

I remember walking through Vegas casinos as a kid in the mid 70s. The cops didn't like it if you loitered, but if you have ever tried to get from anywhere to anywhere in Vegas, you can't avoid the casinos entirely. Not even in the fricken' airport.
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A minor can still walk through a Vegas casino. As long as they're moving and not loitering nobody is going to say a word. Most of the casinos would be impossible for a minor to even enter if the rules were otherwise.
 
Maybe the thing to do is to keep a roll of duct tape and offer to use it on the kid if they continue to act up. Second thought is to use it on the parent.
There is a lot to be said for the old adage "Children should be seen, not heard."
 
cowman said:
I remember that when I was a kid, acting up in public and especially in a restaurant was a cardinal sin. It simply wasn't tolerated, you were either getting smacked or hauled out to the parking lot for worse. Also, to be fair here in my small rural area it still isn't tolerated for the most part. Kids are expected to behave in public with the occasional exception.... and everyone knows and points out "that kid" when it does happen.

However, seems like almost every time I venture into a public area around a city like say Chicago or St Louis there's always one pack of kids running around annoying everyone and the parents are either absent or just plain ignoring it. I was once sitting in a restaurant waiting area and this lady's kids were running all over screaming, and literally crawling right over my lap. Her kids were literally crawling right over other people.... complete strangers. She didn't even say one word.... I was just in shock. I thought surely she just was distracted... surely any moment now she's going to be dragging these monsters outside and they'll return sullen with tears streaming down their face. Nope... didn't even care. In retrospect I really should have said something but a combination of being young and unsure of myself, raised midwestern polite, and a racial component to this that I really didn't want to deal with stopped me.
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That drives me nuts. We expect the kids to behave in public, and they get punished if they don't. This really only applies to our son at the moment (the girls are 19 months and at the point where they're easy still). I've had to carry him out of stores kicking and screaming a few times (mostly Lowes - he wants to go straight for the tool section and never leave) and he's pretty good otherwise.

I also can't imagine using WalMart as a babysitting service. Ridiculous. I also can't imagine leaving my kid in WalMart all day! I'd be worried about the kid's safety.
 
forsonsinc said:
Most of you were kids once
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Yep and if I misbehaved I paid for it and quickly at that. Now in our PC world, everyone is scared of disciplining their children for fear of someone calling CPS or the police for child abuse. Also kids aren't exposed to failure or defeat as much which is in my opinion why we have so many suicides when their girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with them.

There are a lot of kids and/or their parent/s out there that are in dire need of a strip ripped out of their arse.
 
And there are a lot of good parents out there as well.
It's great you had em, not everyone does
 
forsonsinc said:
And there are a lot of good parents out there as well.
It's great you had em, not everyone does
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But there are far less than there were 20...30...40 years ago.

We also had "community parenting." If I pulled some **** in town, mom knew about it before I got home. And she didn't display any of that "MY SON wouldn't do that" attitude when she was called. It was more along the lines of "okay, thank you for letting me know, I'll kick his ass when he gets home."
 
Interestingly, one of the very best parenting techniques used to "encourage" the desired behavior is also frowned upon these days.
 
timwinters said:
But there are far less than there were 20...30...40 years ago.

We also had "community parenting." If I pulled some **** in town, mom knew about it before I got home. And she didn't display any of that "MY SON wouldn't do that" attitude when she was called. It was more along the lines of "okay, thank you for letting me know, I'll kick his ass when he gets home."
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Where I grew up it was called a small town.
 
Zeldman said:
Where I grew up it was called a small town.
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Once when I was a kid we were on a vacation in South Dakota.
I was in the backseat of the car and started acting up.
We were out in the middle of no where and my Dad had had enough of me.
He pulled over to the side of the road climbed out and looked at me and said "GET OUT"
I thought I was dead for sure. Instead he climbed back in the car, started it up and drove off!
There I was a 10 year old brat 20 miles for anything.
Well I figured he'll come back but after about 15 minutes nothing had come by so I started hiking in the direction they had gone.
When I got to the top of the next rise there they were waiting for me.
I climbed in the car and not a word was said.
Needless to say the rest of the two week trip went just fine.
 
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