The parents are to blame. There clearly was a velvet rope around the exhibit, and the parents let the kids go inside the roped-off area. There is no excuse for that.
My son understood from a very young age that you do not misbehave in public. I have no idea how I taught him that, but I do find that parents who allow children to misbehave in public are extremely annoying.
I vividly remember at a local theme restaurant watching a toddler climb all over the brightly polished fender of an antique car while holding daddy’s/grandpa’s car keys in his hands. The doting elder smiled while his little angel risked hours of painstaking restoration. I sad nothing but I’m older now and if I saw such a sight today I’d speak up for sure.
“My son understood from a very young age that you do not misbehave in public. I have no idea how I taught him that, but I do find that parents who allow children to misbehave in public are extremely annoying.”
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There are thousands of videos like this on youtube. There are restaurants who now ban children because of their bad behavior. That’s not the child fault that’s the parents fault. Why the mom in this video does not bust his butt I’ll never know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1xm567Pvz8
Precisely
A few years back a little hellion was in the grocery knocking potatoes on the floor. I told him in a stern voice to stop doing that. He looked at me and said “you’re not my mom”.