Have You Ever Yelled at Someone Else's Kid?

[ASUADPi]

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.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

Considering I'm a teacher, I do it constantly. I'm serious it becomes a natural instinct.

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. 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. 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.

[carnation]

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.