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. ;)