Have You Ever Yelled at Someone Else's Kid?
 

Have you ever accidentally yelled at someone else's kid? I am still laughing hysterically over what 2 of our daughters did on vacation:

1st one: we are in Cinderella Castle at Disney and 1 daughter sees a blond kid with his hands all over a painting, thinks it's her brother, and screams, "Hands off!" Ooo. not her brother.:eek:

2nd one: same day and another daughter hears a kid whine, "My feet are tired!", thinks it's another brother, and yells, "Too bad, butthead!" Again, a stranger. LOL.

Maybe I should have posted this under "Have you ever remembered something funny in the middle of the night and laughed so hard that you couldn't get back to sleep?" because last night, I thought about these and watching the girls try to play it off and I laughed until I cried.

Has anyone else ever done this?

My girlfriends and I lifeguarded summers in high school. One day we were sent to the store to pick up some things for a pool party, and two little kids ran up the aisle at top speed. It had been a long day, and my friend instinctively yelled, forgetting we were inside, "STOP RUNNING, I MEAN IT THIS TIME!" The poor kids stopped dead in their tracks.

I've done that before - I was a lifeguard too. Oh well - they shouldn't run at the pool and they shouldn't run in the store!

I didn't mistakenly yell at someone else's child but something equally embarrassing. My firstborn son was invited to Duke for a ceremony with TIP for scoring high on the SAT as a 7th grader. We were in line for a breakfast buffet, I looked down and saw that his shirttail was out, and I started tucking it in. Then I saw my son a few people ahead of me! I apologized profusely to the little boy, who never said a thing or put up a fuss during the whole episode. I guess he thought I was his mom or was too scared by some strange woman taking liberties--HAHAHA!!!

My mom did this when I was a kid... When I was like 11 she came bursting into my aunts house who lived in the same complex, laughing her butt off. She wanted to know if I had been ther since it got dark, and my aunt confirmed I had.... She said there was a little girl jump roping on the sidewalk near our door and she walked up to her from behind yelling "GET YOUR BUTT INSIDE CAN'T YOU SEE IT'S DARK?!" Then she spun the girl around only to see it was not me, as the girls mom came outside (this little girl was playing in front of her own door in her mothers sights) My mom almost had a fight on her hands! We laughed about that one all the way home, taking the long way around, of course. :)

I intentionally yell at other people's kids.

Control your badass kids and I won't have to. :)

LOL!

The kids in these stories sound like menaces to society. No one should feel bad.

The problem I think is that parents don't discipline their children anymore.

I got in trouble at work once (when I worked at the bookstore) for yelling at kids. But really - WHY are you playing catch inside? Take that to the park or something!

Considering I'm a teacher, I do it constantly. I'm serious it becomes a natural instinct. If I see a child behaving inappropriately I will say something. I have had parents be all like "why are you saying this" and I point blank tell them "well your child was doing this, this and this in a public place" and walk away.
Some might consider me bitchy for doing this but I'm not going to stand by and watch a child A) hurt themself B) hurt others C) being plain disrespectful in public.
You know strangers wouldn't need to say something if parents would, I don't know start disciplining their children. Or even better, watching their children while in a public place.

ASUADPi I juust realized your sig. Awesome firefly reference.

My sister and I used to work for Parks & Rec's summer day camp program. She is (and was) a Director of one of the camps and I was just a counselor. I went with her to work one day last summer (I stopped working there 2 summers prior) and ended up snapping at every kid that did something bad. I swear, these were all Satan's children in this program.. But some of them got an attitude with me like they had never seen me in their lives.

Not too bad, but still a bunch of other people's children.

No, but Lord I've wanted to!

My mom did something similar to MSKKG—she was at a work-related Fourth of July do a few years back, and one of her colleagues was there. He's only two or three years older than me, and my mom accidentally gave him one of her 'run along and go play' swats on the butt! She was mortified, and terrified that she was going to get slapped with a sexual harassment suit. Thankfully the colleague was gracious and took it in good humor!

Ditto. I work at a psych hospital, mostly on the children's ward. Most of them don't really have mental problems; they're just bad and they're parents don't want to deal with them so they give them to us. :rolleyes: The children are always putting themselves in danger or else trying to fight each other, which means I'm always bellowing at one child or another. :o A lot of them end up being my buddy afterward. The follow me around, staying on their best behavior. To tell you the truth, I think they get a little scared of me because I'm usually really sweet and cheerful around children so, when I flip, they don't know what hit them. I take a "Molly Weasley" approach with my babies. ;)

Well, I was thinking more of accidental yelling--or situations like MSKKG's(!!!) :) but heaven knows, there have been situations where I wanted to whap strangers' kids or yell at other teachers' students. I can think of a period of time where I kept doing this:

The first 6 years that I was on GC, I taught 3 places: at a college, at a middle school, and in a jail. The middle school has strict rules about no gum and the other 2 have none. I would glance up in the jail or college and see a student chewing gum and say loudly, "Hey! Get rid of that gum!" and then remember where I was.:o

Yup. My mama's. Lol.

Also, I don't shy from telling children, even strangers, if they are doing something inappropriate or dangerous. I don't necessarily always yell though. :)

I was at the eye doctor's where this beautiful child kept running up and down the long waiting room, yelling at the top of her lungs. She made one too many passes at me (she kept putting her sticky little palm on my knee to turn around and run the other way), so I put both of my hands on her shoulders and said, "Go sit down like a little lady." She was shocked, but darned if she didn't go sit down quietly. Her mama was mad, but it was very effective.

This isn't quite the same, but I was babysitting my cousin's 5-year-old, and we were in a video store. Of course, she had to go to the bathroom, which was at the back of the store. When she came out, she saw the racks of XXX videos, and said, "Let's get the ones with the pretty ladies!" Embarrassed, I replied, "Those are for people with nothing better to do with their lives, Sugar!" The employees there still tease me about it.

Accidentially? No, I do it on purpose.

A couple of years ago I was walking my dog. As I rounded the corner there was a retarded looking kid standing in his yard. As I passed this idiot threw a dodgball at my dog. I caught the ball one handed like Adam Sandler in Billy Madison. I thought about nailing the kid right between the eyes but I figured I would get sued. If assault was a $5 fine I would have given the kid and his parents a beating. I yelled at the kid but I think he was too stupid to even know what I was saying so I just took the ball and walked home.

Last year I was hosting a sit-down dinner at my place for friends and co-workers to celebrate a major occasion. This was relatively formal with cocktails before, wines with dinner, and cognac and liqueurs after. It was clearly a "grown-up" sort of dinner but one couple brought their five year old along. Not because they couldn't find a baby sitter but because they wanted to introduce their little monster to dinner alternatives other than a "happy meal". There were 18 planned for dinner so shoe-horning in a 19th was an interesting excersise in creative seating geometry. I'll gloss over discussion as to the relative do's and dont's of their adding a five year old uninvited guest to an adult dinner party as I am always open to stretching hospitality as far as I can. However, this little monster had no concept of how to behave and his parents seemed to take no notice of his outrageous and incessant bad behaviour. I thought I'd just grin and bear it until it became apparent that my other guests were likewise being continually annoyed by this little brat. I then looked him dead in the eyes and said, 'Son, at your parents house they make the rules. At my house I make the rules and my rules are that you settle down, be quiet, stop annoying everyone else, and do it now.' The table could be described as 'all smiles' except for the parents who actually seemed bewildered that anyone might find fault with their little darling. From that point on the boy behaved quite well, listened to what was going on around him and seemed to be enjoying himself.
Next day I asked my mom and dad about how I handled the situation. Dad said that my primary obligation was to my guests collectively. I had welcomed the couple with their uninvited brat and tried to be accommodating. When my other guests were subjected to continuous disruptive bad manners I took control and delt with the situation. Net result was that all my other guests had a nice evening, the boy learned (I hope) something about limits, and the parents ... well, you can't winn them all.
Mom took a (tounge in cheek?) approach to the effect that in an ideal world the parents would never have been given a license to breed. She feared the gene pool was in danger of further pollution (double meaning here).

I've never yelled at a kid accidentally. Only on purpose.

I worked at an amusement park for 3 summers. If you don't take control, yell, kick kids off of rides and/or have them thrown out of the park every so often, you're going to have more problems than you'd like.

As a former amusement park employee myself, I hear you. The best candidates to kick out are usually the kids whose parents have bought them yearlong passes and then dump them off at the park everyday for free babysitting. After the first week, they get bored and raise hell throughout the park for the rest of the summer. It usually takes weeks for security to physically snatch up the little demons, take their passes, and call their parents (who blame the park for not understanding their darlings).

No, the worst part of the whole thing is... the month of June.

Field trips. Hundreds of kids. Only a few chaperones... and they hang out on the quiet, peaceful lake cruise all day long. Although, I can't say that I blame them. They have to deal with those crazy children every day at school.

This wasn't a kid, but I almost had a few choice words for this guy (looked about 18 or 19) at a restaurant yesterday. The back of his shirt yelled "FUCK YOU from Florida"
I had to stare at the back of his shirt all through my otherwise very enjoyable meal of beer cheese dip and whitehorse pizza. I wanted to go whap him on the back of the head and tell him to grow up.

lol lol :D

Had you done so, you would have become my new heroine!

I gave a laugh when I saw the title of this thread because my automatic answer was, yes, but I have lost count of how many times! lol!

I am a teacher and in my summers during college I was a summer camp leader at a local rec center! I totally agree with the other posters who had similar experiences! The kids at the day summer camp seriously may have been the spawn of Satan! No manners and no idea of what is wrong and right. I was totally a mom those summers for some of those kids!

Being a teacher, I try not to yell, but when you see a kid doing something out of the corner of your eye that is totally wrong, you have to say something!

I am in DC this week on vacation and I am going to have to try really hard not to yell at kids who are doing stupid stuff!

It has already been hard because we have a bunch of high schoolers staying at our hotel and they are annoying! I have not yelled at them yet though!

My nephews are so bad that when I see other kids acting up in public i think it's them and automatically start yelling. lol

but one time I was watching all 4 of my nephews and my niece (9,7,7,4 and my niece is 2) so i thought it would be a good idea to take them to the playground to wear them out so they would be tired for the rest of the day. Big mistake. when we got to the playground there were so many kids but they didn't want to leave so we stayed.

The older boys were playing on the monkey bars so my niece, wanting to hang with the big boys, kept trying to get on them also. I kept having to rescue her from the first bar and sitting her down. SHe had done it so much that I told her we were gonna go home if she did it again. As i was making my rounds checking up on the boys I saw her get back up on that bar. I grabbed her from behind and said "See that was you last chance now we're going home. I told you..." and as i was turning her around i saw that i wasn't holding my niece. :eek:

I put the unknown child down and looked around for angry parents and walked off. Turns out my niece was on the slide. :D

I try that so often! There was one day when I was working at the day camp that we set up 4 cones and played run-around-inside-the-cones-and-if-you-leave-them-you-lose-swim-time.

Great way to waste 20 minutes. Of course, though, the kids didn't get tired..

Y'all might remember that this thread was started when I recounted what 2 of my kids did to strangers at Disney. One of the 2 came into town today and said, "It wasn't as bad as what B (her brother) did!"

It seems that our 12 year old was so excited as we were walking into the Magic Kingdom that he grabbed up someone he thought was his 9 year old brother and gave him a noogie. Problem was--it wasn't his brother!

I just now found out. And now I'll always wonder about the strange kid!! Did he run to his parents screaming about what just happened? Will he always remember what happened as he entered Disney? LOL!!! I am on the FLOOR!!!!