Are parents deaf!?

[hbruton]

Okay this will probably get me in trouble with my childed friends but what the hell!!! Doing some erands today and stopped by my locker to pick up some stuff I needed for the weekend. There was a woman with two little girls there. The little girls were running amok amongst the hitches, large pices of equipment and huge box dsplays. Shreiking.

Comments

[rebelsheart]

you nailed it.

[rebelsheart]

This is the kind of situation where if I were an employee, I would inform the parent to control their children or leave.

[thornwolf]

I did that once. Parent then told her kids, right in front of me, that "this lady is a witch and if you don't be quiet she's going to eat you".

Wtf?

[tuftears]

Want some recipes for kids? :D

[thornwolf]

I find that children, like pork, taste best with a little applesauce >:)

[archangelbeth]

Serious answer? Yes. Parents are deaf. Over-exposure to the little bundles of joy causes the threshold for randomity to be raised, so we don't go entirely screaming irrational at the little dears or leave them in the woods with only breadcrumbs to guide them home. The time to tell whether the kid is kicking the booth is elongated hugely. Because it is below that stress-raised threshold for "is it breaking? Is there blood

[haikujaguar]

Thank you for this response.

What she said.

[balinares]

Oh, sweet mother of ponies, thank you for this comment. These days I'm feeling like I'm headed squarely into exhaustion territory, and if I can still nail kid #1 on the spot with a look, I don't know how much longer I can keep it up. :/

[archangelbeth]

*pats sympathetically* See my icon? See how the adult expression looks kind of exhausted while the child is going WHEEEEEE? Yeah. That. Been there, done that. (Had her on a harness/"leading strings" where she was straining against the harness like an ill-trained puppy, at times, too. Though as she got older, the mere threat of putting her on the leash has had some effect in keeping her close...) They do get better as they get older, generally! Usually. Often. >_> Though the kid's habit of constantly talking to herself during her play has me tuning out... Well, a lot. @_@

Good luck, and may your kids never. ever. ever get strep. Especially not strep with nausea.

[thornwolf]

I ran into a similar situation at the post office yesterday. Some kids were doing as you described, shrieking and running around, climbing on things, disturbing all of the other customers. Did the mother care? No. Eventually when all of us were glaring at her kids, I was a the front of the line so my glares were most easily read, the mother tells her kids that they're "making people angry and this lady (referring to me) is going to talk to you, do you want her to talk to you?" Like, thanks for making yourself the good guy and the rest of us annoyed customers the bad guy. Also of course, being "talked to" by a stranger did not stop the kids from being rowdy. I don't know what's up with parents these days ;/

[drzarron]

As a parent, I will tell you I would have told off the Parent directly. It is every parent's job to control their children in public.