Our local grocery seems inhabited by badly behaved children and clueless mothers.
I couldn't get to the pet food one day because a kid, probably five or six was stretched across the aisle doing spins with her legs extended while clueless dumpy mommy kept staring at the shelves saying, "Don't, stop, mommy needs you to stop that, don't; stop, mommy doesn't like that...."
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The kids in line at checkout screaming at the tops of their lungs hitting mother...
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The kids steering carts at full speed into me and other shoppers while mommy, who appears to be some alternate nirvana say, "Don't, stop, mommy doesn't like that, don't; stop, mommy doesn't like that...."
Yeah, I raised lots of boys...took all of them to the store with me at one time...and they never dared to act like the kids I see now...who btw, are not toddlers and infants..
"The kids in line at checkout screaming at the tops of their lungs hitting mother... "
And then rewarded with candy to make them stop.
I actually told some woman that she was the worst mother I had ever seen after a grocery store encounter.
I watched a kid at a local mega mart scream at her mom "I hate you" the other day; I almost came unglued. What kept me back was realizing it's the parents fault; they are raising their children today for how they will be tomorrow.
I've never had anything like this occur in my presence, but your comment has given me an idea.
If I am ever subject to something of this nature, I'll look the mother square in the eye and tell her that if she doesn't take control of the situation immediately, I'll report her to Child Protective Services and let the State take responsibility for her vermin.
My personal "favorite" was a woman in front of me in a checkout line whose little "darling" kept screaming at the top of his lungs, and her response was to plead in a wimpy voice, "You can't do that in here.....OK? Thank you". Meanwhile, the screaming never stopped.....
Our local grocery seems inhabited by badly behaved children and clueless mothers.This is one of the reasons I prefer to go grocery shopping at 3am or so.
I've thought for awhile that if grocery stores that aren't open 24-7 advertised "no kids night" on a normally slow weeknight, they'd boost their business.
-Eric
Sounds like you haven't figured out that childbirth makes you DEAF.8-)
My mom is a sweet woman. But all it took for me to shut up was the screeching voice she used when she was mad at me. It was like she became a different person.
A few months back I was in a grocery store aisle when a mother gave her son a swat on the behind after he started acting up. Some busybody came right up to her and said "that's child abuse!" and stormed off. When I passed her on the way to the next aisle, I said "thank you, you're doing your boy a favor", and she smiled. Farking liberals.
I've had kids who were brats with their parents that wouldn't dare act that way with me. It is simply a matter of having certain expectations and enforcing them and establishing clear and consistent consequences for failing to work within those boundaries.
The problem is parents who have no control of themselves, so how can they have control over their kids?