In this care, they were teenagers with no parents around.
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Yes, but in my initial response, I wrote about the “granny aged” adult petulantly telling young children that she hoped they all died. And their MOM was right there.
Neither one has the right to tell another person’s kids what to do—it’s the store’s responsibility to take care of those kinds of issues if the parent isn’t there.
I guess the store or the police can handle it. I’m sure your kids will never do anything wrong when you aren’t around. If they did, I am sure you wouldn’t mind going downtown and bailing them out.
An adult has every right to call out an unsupervised minor.
Back in the day, if it got back to your parents (and most people had two of them back then) that some adult had to correct your behavior, you’d get punished twice as hard for shaming the family name. First, mom would light into you, and then it was ‘wait until your father gets home.’ Nowadays, ‘reputation’ and ‘family name’ doesn’t seem to hold much weight.
(calling out meaning it’s ok to call out the behavior but not to scream things like I hope your parents die - that’s just overreacting)