Posted on 04/02/2025 11:59:12 AM PDT by DallasBiff
I can only speak for my family. Yes, it happened in my family. My mother would have to go to town to get groceries and she left the children alone. Happened all the time. She would be gone for three or four hours.
24 yr old. HiS 14yr old child.
Un huh.
Good questions!
Hopefully, Antonio Brown will keep his little box of “Crazy” under control while he tries to help this man
At least it’s not Dennis Rodman.
he’s 24 with a ten year old???? Good Grief.
You really have no idea?
10 and 6? Nah … too young. My kids are older now but at 10 and 6, its about the public at large rather than my kids behavior in public. My kids were raised to be respectful and have always been ahead of the curve but too many variables and not enough trust in humanity currently I guess for me to think this is alright. In 2025 job interviews can be conducted a variety of ways. And say he gets the job…. Then what? He have a plan for that i wonder?
Instead of the “concerned” onlookers calling the police, why did no adult step in and babysit for a while. I’m sure the 10 year old could explain what was up. Where’s the it takes a village mantra we have heard so often.
He had a kid when he was 14! OMG.
Not safe for the kids.
If his mother (kids grandmother) could pick kids up after the arrest, why couldn’t she come to McDonalds and watch the kids for a bit while dad went to interview?
Sounds like he made a poor choice (also, a dad at 14??!!).
May God bless him and help him to get employed and make better choices for his children.
Interestingly enough, there was no answer to your question to the person who keeps acting as if the one-year-old was left by himself without the older siblings.
You don’t leave 1 yr olds alone without adult supervision. Sorry you just don’t, at least not in the world I live in. There’s no excuse for it.
I have no idea what Augusta Georgia is like, but I imagine that if it requires street smarts the ten year old has enough to manage herself at McD’s and the play area is likely the equivalent of a corral. An even easier setting in some ways for a relatively short time span than 2+ hours at home-—especially if enough goodies are purchased to keep the kids busy munching for the first bit.
I live in the world where I don’t have to lock my front door-—in fact, I don’t think the lock consistently works. If it gets to the point where I have to lock the door, I would prefer to move. I also have to drive 40 minutes to see a stop light, but that’s fine by me.
I live back in the woods, you see (actually it’s a small town of under 1200 with two Catholic Churches and a liberal arts college, but close enough)
Of course you do. The infant was supervised and they had obviously done it before.
Lots of kids grow up quickly. I had a 9 year old that i would have trusted to do grocery shopping snd drive home.
The other three... nope
People who have raised two or fewer kids likely can’t understand the dynamic that well unless they were on the older side of a big family.
Watching kids isn’t rocket science, but it does require a certain skill set and confidence. Older sibs can do at a young age what looks terribly stressful to people who are only children or close to it. I’m the oldest of five.
It also helps that my parents came close to meeting the definition of “Home Depot Parents” as described in this video beginning at about the five minute mark, albeit without some of the extremes. They cared some about the big things, but day-to-day manage yourself. Helicopter parenting is bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edxr25t8trc
Too many people can only criticism but never actually help.
10 years old was old enough when I was young to watch kids.
Talk is cheap. It is also about 98% useless -—
But it does kill time, and can serve to put off doing something which takes effort.
that’s my two cents.
If Karen really cared she should have bought the ten year old three of the McD’s apple pies or whatever sort of food like that they have and given them to her to share with her sibs. If the guy is assigned community service, Karen should get about four times the number of hours.
(I’m assuming the ten year old is a girl-—good luck getting many older sisters not to boss around the young ‘uns.)
He’s 24
The one year old? No.
That is way to young to leave alone in a public place.
If he had left them at home it would have been safer.
A 24 year old has a 10 year old child? Only in Georgia... where the devil went!!!
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