[Psalm 144]

Considering how many parents view their kids as pets and allow them to go feral after getting bored with them, I think it is an appropriate word.

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There are a lot of them. An appalling number of them are quite affluent too. It amazes me that people who are clearly socially adept with regard to their peers or in professional settings then resolutely ignore the chaotic barbarisms of their undisciplined, largely castaway children. I do not blame the children in these situations.

[netmilsmom]

>>An appalling number of them are quite affluent too<<

My BIL and SIL come to mind. They have a 10-year-old who is NEVER disciplined.

We were having dinner at the retirement community my hubby’s parents are in. About halfway into the dinner, the mother looks around and says, “Where’s Ethan?”

The kid had been gone for a while. They found him picking the ornaments off the Christmas tree in the hallway. Although that was better than when he pulled the vertical binds off the window at an Outback Steak House. (last time we went out to dinner with them ever again). These people make around 200,000 a year and their kids are trophies/pets.

[Hoffer Rand]

There are a lot of them. An appalling number of them are quite affluent too. It amazes me that people who are clearly socially adept with regard to their peers or in professional settings then resolutely ignore the chaotic barbarisms of their undisciplined, largely castaway children. I do not blame the children in these situations.

It makes you wonder how much time the parent has actually spent with the child, or if the child has been shuffled between nanny, daycare, school, and activities to the point where the parent is a stranger. No wonder the child acts out, and the parent has no clue how to stop the behavior. They don't spend any time together. Still no reason to inflict that on the general public, though, such parents should keep their trophy child at home.