I saw an instance of this the other day at a local restaurant. The father, a boy (about 8), and his sister(about 6) were out for dinner. After the boy started teasing his sister, the father told to to move to another seat at the table.
At first, the boy refused to move. After the third time being told, he got up and in a disgusted tone said "OK, I'll f**kin' move." The father did absolutely nothing about it. Had I said that to my father, I'd probably still be looking for my teeth off in the corner of the restaurant.
“I saw an instance of this the other day at a local restaurant. The father, a boy (about 8), and his sister(about 6) were out for dinner. After the boy started teasing his sister, the father told to to move to another seat at the table.
At first, the boy refused to move. After the third time being told, he got up and in a disgusted tone said “OK, I’ll f**kin’ move.” The father did absolutely nothing about it. Had I said that to my father, I’d probably still be looking for my teeth off in the corner of the restaurant.”
I don’t even want to recall what I know would have happened to me when I got back to the car or home if I had behaved similarly. The problems is that many kids know they can get away with it. They also know they have “rights” nowadays, too.
My daughter works part time in a retail shop where a lot of very wealthy people shop for their kids. Yesterday a mother with 6 and 9 yo daughters came in for clothes. They wouldn’t put down their Game Boys long enough to pay attention to getting fitted - the mother did nothing but beg “please ___, the nice lady wants you to try on the ___” and the kids ignored her. Soon the kids wandered off and discovered trading cards - had to have one of every one in the store. Mom said OK. When the older girl needed to try on a few more things, the Mom went to pick up the cards off the floor. The girl slapped her mother’s hand and said to her mother “Buzz off”. The mother ignored it !
If that had been my kid, she’d have had a very clean mouth and a very sore butt. My kid was outraged and couldn’t believe the Mom did nothing.