Some parents dont watch their kids.

MattUMASSD · #1 08-01-2003, 10:20 AM

There this lady at my job that has been bringing her nine year old son to work everyday for the last 2 weeks. He runs around the office with no shoes on interrupting everyone's job. He comes into the intern office and just bothers everything.

Another story on the metro today a couple exits through the gates and leaves their five year old daughter behind the gates while they walk off.

Even another story lol. Working at the Gap last weekend. This brother and sister duo ran around the store. They messed up my perfect folded polos, broke hangers, and bothered other customers amongst other things. I really feel that some parents dont monitor their kids when they are in public. My mother had me on an invisible leash I never left her side, and If I did their were consequences. Does anyone else feel this way?

rainbowbrightCS · #2 08-01-2003, 10:59 AM

oh yes,

I work at Uhaul, and people just let there kids run around. They are climbing on boxes! I just can't believe it

Kristin AGD · #3 08-01-2003, 11:11 AM

I hate when parents let their kids run all over the place. I have seen it from the mall to restaurants. And then my five year old asks why she can't. What do I say? They just have bad parents?

Can't say that. Five year olds repeat everything.

I hate to let my daughter out of my sight. And I never do in a public place. She is going to her first sleepover tonight. And I am so nervous I can't stand it. I almost keep changing my mind.

chicagoagd · #4 08-01-2003, 11:19 AM

I think the problem is that too many parents want their kids to like them or let them hold the parents hostage by threatening to put up a fuss out in public, so they don't say 'no'. So the parents cave in all the time when the child cries and screams, the child is rewarded for bad behavior, and the child turns into a monster. Whereas, if the child knew one specific phrase "if you ask one more time, you won't get it at all" or "do you really want to go there", the child knows that it means a definite no or certain punishment (taking away a favorite toy, can't move off their bed for the remainder of the day, no tv) if they act up. My parents had a pretty good balance of love and discipline, we acted up at our own risk. Sometimes whacking your older brother was worth no Sesame Street though.

aephi alum · #5 08-01-2003, 11:21 AM

I absolutely despise it when parents don't control their kids. I wasn't allowed to get away with anything, and neither will my hypothetical future children.

A few years back, my husband and I were on our honeymoon in Aruba. We were trying to "relax"

in our hotel room one evening, when we started hearing giggling, screaming, and slamming doors out in the hall. So we stuck our heads out and there was a bunch of kids running around slamming the doors to their rooms, racing up and down the hall, etc.

Turns out the kids belonged to 2 families that were on vacation together. Their mothers had booked rooms on the club floor for themselves and put the kids into regular rooms on our floor. The adults had gone to dinner and left the kids alone, "supervised" by the eldest of them, who was about 15.

We caught one of the mothers, and she got an earful from me - I actually wanted to bitch-slap her, but decided it probably wasn't a good idea.

We tried to fetch security, but got nowhere. We finally went down to the front desk and complained and demanded to be moved. They moved us to the club floor

A couple of days after that incident, we were heading down to breakfast when the mom and one of the kids got onto the elevator with us (this is how we know the parents were on the club floor - you needed a key to get access). The kid looked over at us and whispered to her mom (loudly), "IT'S THEM!!" I didn't say a word, just grinned my litte wicked grin

pinkyphimu · #6 08-01-2003, 11:24 AM

i completely agree!!! as a teacher, i watch many parents in horror!!! i am working at the pool...and honestly, sometimes it is like watching a train wreck. one of the regulars is the most permissive parent i think i have ever seen. the little boy runs around like a wild man. he has even tried to go through my bag!! he always has squirt guns and one day he kept squirting people in the face which is against the rules, so his mom threw them in the trash!!!! the next day, he came in with 3 brand new squirt guns! yeah, that really taught him something!

any my biggest pet peeve is parents who don't follow through with threats. this other parent was trying to make her son give her something...."that doesn't belong in the pool. give it to me. i said give it to me...i am going to count to three...1....2...3...i told you to give that to me. that is it. i am going to count to three...1...2...3. ok, we are going home if you don't give that to me before i count to three." this went on for 10 minutes!!!! she actually took him out of the pool and started packing their things. he handed over the toy...and she said, "ok. you can get back in the pool, but if you ever don't listen again, we are going home." YEAH....as if this little kid didn't know she was full of balogna!!!!

swissmiss04 · #7 08-01-2003, 01:42 PM

I don't get it either. I was out w/ some friends last weekend @ dinner and there was a group of kids (avec parents) sitting out on the patio where we were. I think they were in town w/some sort of swim meet or something. Anyways, these kids were so damn loud. All three of us kept looking over w/ the evil eye hoping the parents would notice and do something about it. It wouldn't have been so bad but these kids were somewhere between 9 and 11 and therefore old enough to know better. I actually lost my appetite over them. I am amazed at the number of times I've been run over by some snot nosed little brat at Target, the mall, or wherever. Or been unable to think due to some fit a brat is throwing over some plastic piece of sh*t. One of my friends has a summer job taking care of 2 girls (the parents are country-clubber types and NEVER home). The six year old is absolutely the devil. She called her own number one night to record the 6 year old screaming. It was awful. I think I won't ever have kids because if mine ever tried to pull a stunt like that I'd lose it!

DigitalAngel126 · #8 08-01-2003, 02:32 PM

Ugh!!! I work at a nursing home and there are at least three employees that I can think of off the top of my head that constantly bring their children to work ... Actually, one of them doesn't even HAVE kids -- she brings her NEICE AND NEPHEW with her!!!

It's so annoying for so many reasons - - mostly because 1) they just run around and get in everyones way, and 2) they all need MAJOR attitude adjustments; they think that since their parents work there, they own the place.

Arg!!!

tinydancer · #9 08-01-2003, 02:58 PM

That just bugs the hell out of me!! Many teachers in my school have children, and they make arrangements for their day care on school work days. A couple are not so considerate and bring their little darlings to school when they are supposed to be working. They run up and down the hall and bother everyone. I have had a few who had the gall to ask if their kids could just come stay in the library and watch tv. I told them NO!!! I made one new teacher mad last fall because she wasn't watching her toddler when she was using the laminator. I could just picture a little hand going through the laminator.

If I had acted a fool in a store, my mama would have taken me to the car (and it wouldn't have been pretty!!)

bethany1982 · #10 08-01-2003, 03:06 PM

What type of employer would allow this type of BS?

ZTAngel · #11 08-01-2003, 03:07 PM

I was at my apartment complex pool the other day. This woman was taking a tour of the complex. She was being shown the laundry facility. The door to the laundry was too small to allow a stroller to pass through. Most normal parents would have just peeked into the room in that case (it's a laundry...nothing spectacular). This idiot woman leaves her kid on the pool deck and walks into the laundry room with the leasing consultant for over a minute. Hello???? Anyone home????? A minute is all it takes for some psycho to run over to the stroller, grab the kid, and take off. I couldn't even believe that she did that. My parents would NEVER have left me unattended like that. On top of it, this poor 2-year-old starts crying hysterically because he thinks his mother abandoned him. Some people just shouldn't be parents....

The best is when people allow their kids to run around department stores. I wasn't allowed to walk 2 feet past my mother at all times! My boyfriend and I witnessed a kid throwing around different display items at Eckerd's the other day. The clerks were freaking out while the other kept saying to her kid in a gentle voice, "Now, sweetie, we know better than to do that." My parents would have grabbed me out of the store so fast..... My boyfriend turned to me and joked, "Wow, I want one just like him." Bleh...

Optimist Prime · #12 08-01-2003, 03:15 PM

Not everyone should be allowed to have children. I'm breeding to combat stupitidy.

MeLikey · #13 08-01-2003, 05:05 PM

My very first summer job was working in a brand new Barnes & Noble. I was working in the children's department and I decided to alphabetize and arrange by series all of these books on the spinning shelf. It had taken me so long to organize, and I was off taking care of a customer, when I saw this unattended child taking out all of the books I had just organized! Oh well, at least it gave me something to do (it was slow that day).

KappaKittyCat · #14 08-01-2003, 05:27 PM

An antique shop near my house has a sign up that says, "All unattended children will be given a kitten."

You'd better believe that they don't have problems with unattended children.

lifesaver · #15 08-01-2003, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by swissmiss04
I am amazed at the number of times I've been run over by some snot nosed little brat at Target, the mall, or wherever.

This is gonna sound so dick, but I see the kid running, not looking, and LET them hit me, bounce off and start wailing. That gets the parents attention, then I say in a concerned voice to the parents, "Could you parent? Even for just a minute? Things liek this prolly wouldnt happen." THen walk the PHUCK off.