Other people's kids

[azoomm]

That's right, we all hate them. It isn't that our own are perfect - it's that THEIRS are little monsters. Here's the place to rant about them, and as a bonus we can freak Tommy out in the process :lol:


I'll start. Not only did I deal with a screaming vermin on the plane on Sunday. But, today at the grocery store another one shrieking in every isle. It was gleeful, but just as high pitched and ridiculous. Once, ok. Twice, alright. But, every other moment??!? It's not cute anymore - no one likes your kid. And, when mommy didn't give her attention, that glee turned sour.

:panic:

Why was I seen as the bad guy when I told her that perhaps children should be seen and not heard?

[tkevcu]

Talking about other people's kids always makes me think about this.

[Trip]

I love making my sisters kids go ape shit in public. Mainly because they aren't my kids and I love pissing everyone in the place off.

[Adeptus_Minor]

I love making my sisters kids go ape shit in public. Mainly because they aren't my kids and I love pissing everyone in the place off.

There's a special place in hell... :shovel:

[Clay]

Call me weird... I love kids. 1 out of 10 may be truly unruly and it's the parent's fault, not the kid's. Children are the only true innocence the world knows. They aren't stuck on pathetic societal rules stating you can't run and scream...and have fun any dang time you want to. So let them have fun, soon enough they'll be grown up and cranky like the rest of us...complaining about other parents' kids.

[tommymac]

Got yelled at by a lady in the super market last week, she had a few kids running amok in the aisles. One is running full speed and of course not looking where shes going and hits an immovable object aka my hip/leg and falls and starts crying.

Somehow it was my fault that her kid was crying. While shes ragging on me I just told her to eat a bag of dicks and walked away. typical LI soccer mom so i think she was trying to figure out my comment, plus they always back down when YOU become confrontational with them :lol:

[askmrjesus]

I love making my sisters kids go ape shit in public. Mainly because they aren't my kids and I love pissing everyone in the place off.

People like you, are the reason sniper rifles are so popular.

JC

[CrazyKell]

It seems to me that more and more people try and bring their kids everywhere. There are places children just aren't appropriate and it's annoying when they ruin my time because they're undisciplined.

I used to really love hanging out with my nieces and nephew. As they've gotten a bit older, and more and more unruly, they are hard to be around because they are so annoying. :(

[tommymac]

It seems to me that more and more people try and bring their kids everywhere. There are places children just aren't appropriate and it's annoying when they ruin my time because they're undisciplined.

I used to really love hanging out with my nieces and nephew. As they've gotten a bit older, and more and more unruly, they are hard to be around because they are so annoying. :(

Some think its cute when you go to a restaurant or something and theyre wandering to other tables and that sort of thing. I find it annoying more than anything.

[CrazyKell]

Some think its cute when you go to a restaurant or something and theyre wandering to other tables and that sort of thing. I find it annoying more than anything.

Oh I would be quite vocal about that kind of situation.

It's not difficult to have well behaved children.

[OneSickPsycho]

Talking about other people's kids always makes me think about this.

I want one... Trip, I'll take 1,000 of these as vinyl stickers, 8"x10" please. And I'm going to plaster them on the front window of EVERY public place I go to from this point forward.

Got yelled at by a lady in the super market last week, she had a few kids running amok in the aisles. One is running full speed and of course not looking where shes going and hits an immovable object aka my hip/leg and falls and starts crying.

Somehow it was my fault that her kid was crying. While shes ragging on me I just told her to eat a bag of dicks and walked away. typical LI soccer mom so i think she was trying to figure out my comment, plus they always back down when YOU become confrontational with them :lol:

See, I would have completely lost it. "You can't control YOUR kid and it's my fault? I'm fucking standing here minding my own business and your one-night stand mistake, who is completely out of control, runs into ME and that's MY fault? What fucking planet are you from??? ..................... Oh and PS, you can buy bags of dicks in isle 7... I suggest you eat ALL of them."

[Trip]

There's a special place in hell... :shovel:

People like you, are the reason sniper rifles are so popular.

JC

People don't know about me. They only see my sister suffering with her bat shit crazy kids that I have overdosed on sugar.

[shmike]

Call me weird... I love kids. 1 out of 10 may be truly unruly and it's the parent's fault, not the kid's. Children are the only true innocence the world knows. They aren't stuck on pathetic societal rules stating you can't run and scream...and have fun any dang time you want to. So let them have fun, soon enough they'll be grown up and cranky like the rest of us...complaining about other parents' kids.

Word.

[marko138]

I love other peoples kids. Now, mine. No thanks.

[z06boy]

Call me weird... I love kids. 1 out of 10 may be truly unruly and it's the parent's fault, not the kid's. Children are the only true innocence the world knows. They aren't stuck on pathetic societal rules stating you can't run and scream...and have fun any dang time you want to. So let them have fun, soon enough they'll be grown up and cranky like the rest of us...complaining about other parents' kids.

Weird

There's a time and place for everything...kids screaming/running around playing in a park...fine...their yard/house...fine but in a restaurant or a movie theater or in a store for example...not fine.

I don't have kids and don't want to hear it. :idk:

Don't get me wrong...I like kids...they are our future and they do posess an innocense BUT that doesn't mean I want to hear them screaming and have them running around my table when I'm trying to eat and carry on a conversation with another adult.

Keep your kids under control.

[azoomm]

Call me weird... I love kids. 1 out of 10 may be truly unruly and it's the parent's fault, not the kid's. Children are the only true innocence the world knows. They aren't stuck on pathetic societal rules stating you can't run and scream...and have fun any dang time you want to. So let them have fun, soon enough they'll be grown up and cranky like the rest of us...complaining about other parents' kids.

While it isn't difficult to have good kids, it is work. And, we all know how much parents love to "work."

Clay, I adore children. I just believe, at a certain age, regardless of their parents they should have a general understanding of how to behave. I'll say, six years old for certain - after that age, they should be in school and have a basic grasp of how to behave in public.

Are the parents to blame? Absolutely. It isn't that I'm cranky - it's that there is a time and place to run and scream, and the restaurant that I'm having dinner at isn't either of those.

[CrazyKell]

Now, mine. No thanks.


We all thank you. :lmao:

I agree with time and a place. I love seeing kids play and go nuts but there's an appropriate place for that.

[marko138]

We all thank you. :lmao:

I agree with time and a place. I love seeing kids play and go nuts but there's an appropriate place for that.
Don't worry about it.

[OneSickPsycho]

Weird

There's a time and place for everything...kids screaming/running around playing in a park...fine...their yard/house...fine but in a restaurant or a movie theater or in a store for example...not fine.

I don't have kids and don't want to hear it. :idk:

Don't get me wrong...I like kids...they are our future and they do posess an innocense BUT that doesn't mean I want to hear them screaming and have them running around my table when I'm trying to eat and carry on a conversation with another adult.

Keep your kids under control.

Truth.

[pauldun170]

Got yelled at by a lady in the super market last week, she had a few kids running amok in the aisles. One is running full speed and of course not looking where shes going and hits an immovable object aka my hip/leg and falls and starts crying.

Somehow it was my fault that her kid was crying. While shes ragging on me I just told her to eat a bag of dicks and walked away. typical LI soccer mom so i think she was trying to figure out my comment, plus they always back down when YOU become confrontational with them :lol:

Kids I can deal with, the li soccer-moms I have no tolerance for.
Entitlment driven self entered leopard print Anniston haircut suv driving lipo having bitches

[marko138]

Weird

There's a time and place for everything...kids screaming/running around playing in a park...fine...their yard/house...fine but in a restaurant or a movie theater or in a store for example...not fine.

I don't have kids and don't want to hear it. :idk:

Don't get me wrong...I like kids...they are our future and they do posess an innocense BUT that doesn't mean I want to hear them screaming and have them running around my table when I'm trying to eat and carry on a conversation with another adult.

Keep your kids under control.
If these kind of kids are our future we're fucked.

[tommymac]

People don't know about me. They only see my sister suffering with her bat shit crazy kids that I have overdosed on sugar.

keep behind the scenes, well done.

I used to go to my sisters house, play with the kids and get em all fired up so theyre running amok, then I would go home. She would curse me for that regularly :lol:

[OneSickPsycho]

keep behind the scenes, well done.

I used to go to my sisters house, play with the kids and get em all fired up so theyre running amok, then I would go home. She would curse me for that regularly :lol:

Turnabout is fair play. :D

[Krypt Keeper]

How your child acts is a reflection of the parents. My sisters kids are great example of that. Its embarassing to go anywhere in public with them, they are either screaming, crawling on the floor at dinner, or into some form of mischief. Not uncommon for them to just walk up to people and kick them.

My son is no angel, but he will be polite and respectable to others. Structure plays a big role in raising a kid and seems alot of kids don't have that anymore.

[gavilan]

It seems to me that more and more people try and bring their kids everywhere. There are places children just aren't appropriate and it's annoying when they ruin my time because they're undisciplined.


No kidding! I was having breakfast with my roommate at a bar and there was a family sitting next to us with their kids screaming joyfully and walking around and stuff.

Really? A bar??

Granted, the place opens up for breakfast and lunch and obviously admits families and what not... but I would think that it would be so much better to take your little ones to places that don't have tables all sticky with beer from the previous night... and patrons that are, most likely, nursing a hangover.... lol

[tommymac]

Turnabout is fair play. :D

Oh karma will bite me in the as shard for all the shit I have done over the years :lol:

[azoomm]

I loathe seeing kids at bars. We went to a local sportsbar for UFC one night - there was one family by the bar [standing room only] with their kids in the thick of it. The little girl had her hands on her ears and was crying.

I made a point to tell her - "You're a great example of a bad mommy" She didn't like me, but they stayed. Unreal.

[z06boy]

Kids I can deal with, the li soccer-moms I have no tolerance for.
Entitlment driven self entered leopard print Anniston haircut suv driving lipo having bitches

:lol: Yep plenty of that here too.

If these kind of kids are our future we're fucked.

Oh so true !!

[the chi]

:lol: I have actually had a child walk up and kick me out of nowhere, in a Dr.'s office no less. Thankfully the mom was mortified and I refrained from smacking the strange child, but that memory reinforces why I dont care for most children.

Yes, call me a horrible hag, but I dont like about 95% of them. I agree they should be seen and not heard, except in certain circumstances and there is nothing guaranteed to drive me more insane than being somewhere with screaming, unruly children.

If I'm at the park, or a playground, I dont mind, but if Im in a restaurant or the grocery store I dont want your ankle biter running around my table, hollering for attention or crying loudly, running in front of my basket, or bouncing off of me or darting in front of me, and I definitely dont want to hear it from 3 aisles away! GO OUTSIDE ALREADY!

Whew. Fires me up. I admit it, I'm going to be a friggin Hitler as a parent, but you can be damned sure my child wont be annoying anyone other than me!

Ironically, I'm the person that children want to walk up to and be held by. I think its like cats. If you dont want to be around them, they force themselves on you...and of course the parents think its sooooo cute.

These are the same parents that lost their kid in the first place, it found me, and they were okay with letting a total stranger haul their kid around while they did their shopping. It's happened, in a mall of all places. And we wonder why children are the way they are...

[Papa_Complex]

The neighbour's knuckle-dragging teenage thug and his friend ripped off two bikes from another neighbour, who was knocking at their door at 11:00pm saying, "I've got a problem with your son. Those are my kids' bikes." A couple of weeks later the same two condom failures broke into the townhouse next door to me and trashed it. Fortunately he was too stupid to deny this, and now seems to be spending his days at a foster home.

The new neighbours, who just moved in on the opposite side of me from the trashed unit, let their kids use the whole neighbourhood as their toybox. I have to watch out for their kids who dart out from between parked cars in the lot, and their stuff which can be found laying in the lot, on the sidewalk, in the middle of the courtyard, in my front yard, where I park my motorcycle...... I suppose that they come by it naturally though, because their parents are slowly annexing the whole courtyard as their patio.

[Trip]

:lol: I have actually had a child walk up and kick me out of nowhere, in a Dr.'s office no less. Thankfully the mom was mortified and I refrained from smacking the strange child, but that memory reinforces why I dont care for most children.

Yes, call me a horrible hag, but I dont like about 95% of them. I agree they should be seen and not heard, except in certain circumstances and there is nothing guaranteed to drive me more insane than being somewhere with screaming, unruly children.

If I'm at the park, or a playground, I dont mind, but if Im in a restaurant or the grocery store I dont want your ankle biter running around my table, hollering for attention or crying loudly, running in front of my basket, or bouncing off of me or darting in front of me, and I definitely dont want to hear it from 3 aisles away! GO OUTSIDE ALREADY!

Whew. Fires me up. I admit it, I'm going to be a friggin Hitler as a parent, but you can be damned sure my child wont be annoying anyone other than me!

Ironically, I'm the person that children want to walk up to and be held by. I think its like cats. If you dont want to be around them, they force themselves on you...and of course the parents think its sooooo cute.

These are the same parents that lost their kid in the first place, it found me, and they were okay with letting a total stranger haul their kid around while they did their shopping. It's happened, in a mall of all places. And we wonder why children are the way they are...

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

[the chi]

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.


I totally agree, however this only applies to assholes who want to do this. I dont force my pets or my love of pets on other people (other than not letting people torment or kill things when Im around), so why are you telling me this?

Edit to add: My pets are my children, and really as close as I ever want to be to kids, but they mind, and do what they are told, they dont bark and bother the neighbors, they dont make a nuisance of themselves, other than Abby when she wants kisses, and I make sure my babies are welcome before I take them anywhere.

[marko138]

:lol: I have actually had a child walk up and kick me out of nowhere, in a Dr.'s office no less. Thankfully the mom was mortified and I refrained from smacking the strange child, but that memory reinforces why I dont care for most children.

Yes, call me a horrible hag, but I dont like about 95% of them. I agree they should be seen and not heard, except in certain circumstances and there is nothing guaranteed to drive me more insane than being somewhere with screaming, unruly children.

If I'm at the park, or a playground, I dont mind, but if Im in a restaurant or the grocery store I dont want your ankle biter running around my table, hollering for attention or crying loudly, running in front of my basket, or bouncing off of me or darting in front of me, and I definitely dont want to hear it from 3 aisles away! GO OUTSIDE ALREADY!

Whew. Fires me up. I admit it, I'm going to be a friggin Hitler as a parent, but you can be damned sure my child wont be annoying anyone other than me!

Ironically, I'm the person that children want to walk up to and be held by. I think its like cats. If you dont want to be around them, they force themselves on you...and of course the parents think its sooooo cute.

These are the same parents that lost their kid in the first place, it found me, and they were okay with letting a total stranger haul their kid around while they did their shopping. It's happened, in a mall of all places. And we wonder why children are the way they are...
My hero. For real.

[CrazyKell]

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

I much prefer dogs to children any day of the week. ;)

[marko138]

I much prefer dogs to children any day of the week. ;)
Every day of the week.

[z06boy]

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

This is true

[Trip]

I totally agree, however this only applies to assholes who want to do this. I dont force my pets or my love of pets on other people (other than not letting people torment or kill things when Im around), so why are you telling me this?

Edit to add: My pets are my children, and really as close as I ever want to be to kids, but they mind, and do what they are told, they dont bark and bother the neighbors, they dont make a nuisance of themselves, other than Abby when she wants kisses, and I make sure my babies are welcome before I take them anywhere.

I am just saying, a lot of people don't want pets places just the same as you don't want kids making a ruckus. I don't mind and like dogs. I absolutely hate cats and most other animals. I really hate finding cats on my property because their irresponsible owners let them wander the neighborhood.

I wasn't saying your pets are a nuissance or a problem, just that many people feel that way about pets.

[OneSickPsycho]

No kidding! I was having breakfast with my roommate at a bar and there was a family sitting next to us with their kids screaming joyfully and walking around and stuff.

Really? A bar??

Granted, the place opens up for breakfast and lunch and obviously admits families and what not... but I would think that it would be so much better to take your little ones to places that don't have tables all sticky with beer from the previous night... and patrons that are, most likely, nursing a hangover.... lol

I loathe seeing kids at bars. We went to a local sportsbar for UFC one night - there was one family by the bar [standing room only] with their kids in the thick of it. The little girl had her hands on her ears and was crying.

I made a point to tell her - "You're a great example of a bad mommy" She didn't like me, but they stayed. Unreal.

Depends on the bar, depends on the time of day. One of my favorite things when I was a kid was going to the bar with my old man for dinner. I would do the same with my kids - bar for breakfast/lunch/dinner OK... Past 8pm on a Friday night, during a UFC match, or some other drinking-oriented event... not cool. Bars have video games and many times the best damn food at a good price you can find - as long as there isn't any rowdy drinking going on, I say let the kids in.

The neighbour's knuckle-dragging teenage thug and his friend ripped off two bikes from another neighbour, who was knocking at their door at 11:00pm saying, "I've got a problem with your son. Those are my kids' bikes." A couple of weeks later the same two condom failures broke into the townhouse next door to me and trashed it. Fortunately he was too stupid to deny this, and now seems to be spending his days at a foster home.

The new neighbours, who just moved in on the opposite side of me from the trashed unit, let their kids use the whole neighbourhood as their toybox. I have to watch out for their kids who dart out from between parked cars in the lot, and their stuff which can be found laying in the lot, on the sidewalk, in the middle of the courtyard, in my front yard, where I park my motorcycle...... I suppose that they come by it naturally though, because their parents are slowly annexing the whole courtyard as their patio.

Just throw their toys away. Shit is in MY yard, it's mine... and I don't want my pink bicycle with the flowery basket on it any more.

[the chi]

Ah, I got ya. Thought you were making a dig at the way I treat my babies.

I totally agree with you tho. On all counts.

As for the loose running cats? Irresponsible of the pet owners. Have an issue with them getting on your car? Hook up an electric fence set up to the battery and let them try then. My FIL did that...never had another problem with the cats getting on his nice vehicles.

As far as the kids thing goes...here's another one for ya. I used to manage commercial property, with a brand new nice play area and swiming fountain. Parents and nannies use to drop the kids off, and LEAVE the shopping center. Childrens Services, yes please, send an officer. And these folks didnt think there was anything wrong with letting their 8 year old watch the 5 and 3 year old. ALONE. Same folks who bitched when I had to shut down the water fountain, because they allowed their child to CRAP in it. Thus violating every helath code possible for my water park. I think I dislike the parents as much as the children.

Screw people. Give me animals any day.

[Trip]

Call me weird... I love kids. 1 out of 10 may be truly unruly and it's the parent's fault, not the kid's. Children are the only true innocence the world knows. They aren't stuck on pathetic societal rules stating you can't run and scream...and have fun any dang time you want to. So let them have fun, soon enough they'll be grown up and cranky like the rest of us...complaining about other parents' kids.

This is a good post. A lot of parents actually believe they have good children and they don't do these things and are equally disgusted at other children doing these things. It's a parents bias.

A lot of it is just naturally being a kid and people who aren't around kids a lot aren't use to their activity and it annoys them. There are some places I can tolerate people's disgust of kids being kids, because some parents should realize they shouldn't bring their kids to certain locations because a kids attention span is not long enough to tolerate that type of boredom, but there are others where these people need to shut the fuck up and deal with kids being kids because it's a public place and they shouldn't expect privacy or quiet.

Just remember when you get mad at a kid being obnoxious, there was someone that was equally, maybe more so, disgusted at you when you were a child.

[z06boy]

^^^^It just depends on when and where...as I referenced in my response to this same post. My parents didn't allow us to run around a restaurant screaming around other peoples tables or in a movie theater. So no I don't think it's ok for kids to run around and scream anytime and anywhere they want to.

[KSGregman]

I try hard to ignore other peoples kids in public....getting frustrated by or irritated with other peoples kids just seems like a waste of energy. I do get frustrated with the parents of kids who are obviously misbehaving in public who don't intervene though.

It just seems like parents now days can't be bothered....tolerant and over indulgent to a truly self destructive degree....their kids can do NO wrong...and fat? Next time you are out in public pay attention....look at the little kids...I'm talking YOUNG kids....5 years old...and morbidly obese already. It's fucking CRAZY....an absolute epidemic of sloth and laziness...of piss poor decision making on the part of their parents.

I took my daughter to the pool over the week-end and was shocked by all of those little fat kids All I could think of was Wall-E.....

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w9/KSGregman/fat_kids.jpg

[zlicius]

We used to eat out a lot, now, not so much, because demon spawn just can't handle it (or wait, i can't handle him while eating out) I don't want to make others miserable, so we stay home.

Will try again in a couple months, but for now, it's saving us money at least! HAHA

[CrazyKell]

...and fat? Next time you are out in public pay attention....look at the little kids...I'm talking YOUNG kids....5 years old...and morbidly obese already. It's fucking CRAZY....an absolute epidemic of sloth and laziness...of piss poor decision making on the part of their parents.

I am disgusted every time I look at my two nieces. They are both fat. There is no other way to say it. The 6 year old has a belly that could rival an old man's beer belly. And the 9 year old is just pudgy all over. I guess putting ranch dressing on everything and eating chicken nuggets every day isn't exactly a slimming diet.

[Trip]

eating chicken nuggets every day isn't exactly a slimming diet.

This is what aggravates me. If I have a kid, I don't want it to know what mcdonald's is.

[CrazyKell]

This is what aggravates me. If I have a kid, I don't want it to know what mcdonald's is.

These kids could recite the menu of every fast food place around. Absolutely sickens me what they're fed on a daily basis. And my sister-in-law recently said they were going to take the middle child to the doctor because of her weight. Um....how about you stop feeding her CRAP!!!:wtfru:

[defector]

I am disgusted every time I look at my two nieces. They are both fat. There is no other way to say it. The 6 year old has a belly that could rival an old man's beer belly. And the 9 year old is just pudgy all over. I guess putting ranch dressing on everything and eating chicken nuggets every day isn't exactly a slimming diet.
Shitty diet is one thing - another is having them park their ass on the couch for days. Eating shitty food. Rinse,repeat ....

[tkevcu]

Kids are a direct result of the parenting (or lack thereof) that they receive. I took my son to a Thomas the Tank Engine event at a railroad. Leading up the the whole event, I was miserable thinking about the brats that would be there.

I was amazed that all of the kids were appropriately behaved, and every time I saw one getting out of line, a parent dealt with them. I had one kid ran right into me at full speed, not watching what he was doing. The mother made him apoligize... "I'm sorry" didn't cut it. She made him say "I'm sorry for running into you."

This was a Tweetsie Railroad in Boone, NC.

If my son starts to act up...we leave, and he knows it. He's better behaved in public than he is at home.

[Smittie61984]

I want one... Trip, I'll take 1,000 of these as vinyl stickers, 8"x10" please. And I'm going to plaster them on the front window of EVERY public place I go to from this point forward.


No need to go through all of that trouble. Just eat where kids can't go. Such as the Titty Club!!!

[z06boy]

Shitty diet is one thing - another is having them park their ass on the couch for days. Eating shitty food. Rinse,repeat ....

Definitely...the two together...*facepalm*

[OneSickPsycho]

Kids are a direct result of the parenting (or lack thereof) that they receive. I took my son to a Thomas the Tank Engine event at a railroad. Leading up the the whole event, I was miserable thinking about the brats that would be there.

I was amazed that all of the kids were appropriately behaved, and every time I saw one getting out of line, a parent dealt with them. I had one kid ran right into me at full speed, not watching what he was doing. The mother made him apoligize... "I'm sorry" didn't cut it. She made him say "I'm sorry for running into you."

This was a Tweetsie Railroad in Boone, NC.

If my son starts to act up...we leave, and he knows it. He's better behaved in public than he is at home.

That's awesome... makes sense actually... parents who are very involved in their kid's interests are more likely to be actively involved in actually raising their kid. Most of the fucked up little monsters are mostly from people who look at their kid as a chore or inconvenience, rather than taking the time to actually care more about their kid than themselves.

No need to go through all of that trouble. Just eat where kids can't go. Such as the Titty Club!!!

Ooo... greatest idea ever... Walmart type store designed for men... ran by topless and/or naked women. Completely with a topless optometrist (do these look better like this, or like this?), an old guy barber who uses the clippers for everything (and ALWAYS straight razors your neck), and a fucking steak place instead of Subway/McDonald's....

Now imagine, replace all the girls stuff with a single isle for shampoo (Pert Plus) and manly deoderant, replace all the clothes with 5 racks (shorts, slacks, t-shirts, dress shirts, and jeans), a shelf for socks and underwear... anyway, you see where I'm going... No toys, no home decor, only frozen meals, beer, and meat in the grocery section... Replace all of that bullshit with more guns and sporting goods, good tools, and a motorsports dealer and... WIN!

Did I mention naked chicks?

[marko138]

That's awesome... makes sense actually... parents who are very involved in their kid's interests are more likely to be actively involved in actually raising their kid. Most of the fucked up little monsters are mostly from people who look at their kid as a chore or inconvenience, rather than taking the time to actually care more about their kid than themselves.



Ooo... greatest idea ever... Walmart type store designed for men... ran by topless and/or naked women. Completely with a topless optometrist (do these look better like this, or like this?), an old guy barber who uses the clippers for everything (and ALWAYS straight razors your neck), and a fucking steak place instead of Subway/McDonald's....

Now imagine, replace all the girls stuff with a single isle for shampoo (Pert Plus) and manly deoderant, replace all the clothes with 5 racks (shorts, slacks, t-shirts, dress shirts, and jeans), a shelf for socks and underwear... anyway, you see where I'm going... No toys, no home decor, only frozen meals, beer, and meat in the grocery section... Replace all of that bullshit with more guns and sporting goods, good tools, and a motorsports dealer and... WIN!

Did I mention naked chicks?
Holy shit. You are a genius. For realz. BUILD THIS NOW!

[Adeptus_Minor]

This is what aggravates me. If I have a kid, I don't want it to know what mcdonald's is.

You are redeemed. :dthumb:

[Smittie61984]

No toys, no home decor, only frozen meals, beer, and meat in the grocery section... Replace all of that bullshit with more guns and sporting goods, good tools, and a motorsports dealer and... WIN!

Did I mention naked chicks?

I'd also add a gym with blood red walls, loud crazy pissed off metal music, naked chicks on stripper poles, and beer and hotwings at the "cafe".

[Cutty72]

I much prefer dogs to children any day of the week. ;)

Every day of the week.

Truth.

[Rangerscott]

Ill make damn sure that my kids are raised by my neighbors and with someone elses welfare check cause my welfare check is goin to 30packs and cigs.

[Clay]

Why don't we go ahead and get political while we're at it. For every one of you all that gets pissed off that the kid is running and screaming in the store, there's another one that will call child services the moment mom or dad tries to discipline said child. Well...which way is it?

BTW, I agree that running wild in a restaurant or grocery store is NOT ok. At the same time though, TRY to remember what it's like being a kid. Some kids are mellow, some are hyper by nature. Now, try to remember just how much fun it was going to the grocery with your mom. My kids have been known to act up in the grocery because they're so bored. We'll IMMEDIATELY stop it. 5 minutes later they're at it again. Punishments will come, but you've got to remember that kids will be kids. They'll never be punished for being kids, but instead disobeying an order to stop acting up. HOWEVER, I can't smack their butts in the store now can I? Remember, that's illegal now. *rolleyes*

[Gas Man]

I love other peoples kids. Now, mine. No thanks.
Exactly!!

All kids eventually drive me nutso....

[zlicius]

Clay, here in texas it's not illegal. It's only illegal if you leave a mark and don't take them for treatment. LOL!

[the chi]

Why don't we go ahead and get political while we're at it. For every one of you all that gets pissed off that the kid is running and screaming in the store, there's another one that will call child services the moment mom or dad tries to discipline said child. Well...which way is it?



I will quite literally APPLAUD a parent that disciplines a child that is acting inappropriately, be it in public or not. There's a difference between disciplining with a smack on the butt and outright child abuse however. I think it's ridiculous that society has reached the point where folks cant discipline a child in public.

As for acting up in public, its great that you take care of the issue, but maybe your kids arent the ones that drive us haters insane.

I think the majority of us are talking about those monsters that shouldnt be allowed out of a cage let alone taken to a nice public place where acting out is not appreciated or appropriate.

Walmart for example. You expect to see kids. You expect to hear them crying, laughing or whining. No big deal. And Im sure most will agree. Does it still get on my nerves, a little, but so do dogs barking incessantly, construction noise, people sharing their life history on their cell phones loudly, coffee cans on ricers, etc. but Im not going to gent bent outta shape about it.

Screaming at the top of their lungs, running and darting in front of adults, tripping folks, being more than 20 feet away from their parents, building castles out of cans in the middle of the aisle...not acceptable.

[Adeptus_Minor]

I will quite literally APPLAUD a parent that disciplines a child that is acting inappropriately, be it in public or not. There's a difference between disciplining with a smack on the butt and outright child abuse however. I think it's ridiculous that society has reached the point where folks cant discipline a child in public.

As for acting up in public, its great that you take care of the issue, but maybe your kids arent the ones that drive us haters insane.

I think the majority of us are talking about those monsters that shouldnt be allowed out of a cage let alone taken to a nice public place where acting out is not appreciated or appropriate.

Walmart for example. You expect to see kids. You expect to hear them crying, laughing or whining. No big deal. And Im sure most will agree. Does it still get on my nerves, a little, but so do dogs barking incessantly, construction noise, people sharing their life history on their cell phones loudly, coffee cans on ricers, etc. but Im not going to gent bent outta shape about it.

Screaming at the top of their lungs, running and darting in front of adults, tripping folks, being more than 20 feet away from their parents, building castles out of cans in the middle of the aisle...not acceptable.


Well said. :dthumb:

[z06boy]

Why don't we go ahead and get political while we're at it. For every one of you all that gets pissed off that the kid is running and screaming in the store, there's another one that will call child services the moment mom or dad tries to discipline said child. Well...which way is it?

BTW, I agree that running wild in a restaurant or grocery store is NOT ok. At the same time though, TRY to remember what it's like being a kid. Some kids are mellow, some are hyper by nature. Now, try to remember just how much fun it was going to the grocery with your mom. My kids have been known to act up in the grocery because they're so bored. We'll IMMEDIATELY stop it. 5 minutes later they're at it again. Punishments will come, but you've got to remember that kids will be kids. They'll never be punished for being kids, but instead disobeying an order to stop acting up. HOWEVER, I can't smack their butts in the store now can I? Remember, that's illegal now. *rolleyes*


Ok since I 'cracked' on you about the last post on this subject I'll give you kudos on this one...good post. :rockwoot:

Oh and I won't be calling anyone if you discipline your child...now if you're going crazy and abusing them...that's another story all together. :lol:

[z06boy]

I will quite literally APPLAUD a parent that disciplines a child that is acting inappropriately, be it in public or not. There's a difference between disciplining with a smack on the butt and outright child abuse however. I think it's ridiculous that society has reached the point where folks cant discipline a child in public.

As for acting up in public, its great that you take care of the issue, but maybe your kids arent the ones that drive us haters insane.

I think the majority of us are talking about those monsters that shouldnt be allowed out of a cage let alone taken to a nice public place where acting out is not appreciated or appropriate.

Walmart for example. You expect to see kids. You expect to hear them crying, laughing or whining. No big deal. And Im sure most will agree. Does it still get on my nerves, a little, but so do dogs barking incessantly, construction noise, people sharing their life history on their cell phones loudly, coffee cans on ricers, etc. but Im not going to gent bent outta shape about it.

Screaming at the top of their lungs, running and darting in front of adults, tripping folks, being more than 20 feet away from their parents, building castles out of cans in the middle of the aisle...not acceptable.

Also good !!

[CrazyKell]

Ok since I 'cracked' on you about the last post on this subject I'll give you kudos on this one...good post. :rockwoot:

Oh and I won't be calling anyone if you discipline your child...now if you're going crazy and abusing them...that's another story all together. :lol:

Same here. I might discipline my child differently, but unless you're being abusive it's not for me to step in. Now if you're abusing a child in public....watch out!

[Smittie61984]

I will quite literally APPLAUD a parent that disciplines a child that is acting inappropriately, be it in public or not. There's a difference between disciplining with a smack on the butt and outright child abuse however. I think it's ridiculous that society has reached the point where folks cant discipline a child in public.
.

Eating yesterday I saw a kid get his but smacked. They kept running around and the mom grabbed the kid and smacked him. The kid whimpered/cried for a little bit but it was music to my ears. The mom also appologized to me and a couple other patrons.

[Clay]

Same here. I might discipline my child differently, but unless you're being abusive it's not for me to step in. Now if you're abusing a child in public....watch out!

How many people now-a-days consider that abuse though? Sadly, a lot do. Also sadly...most of the types everyone is bitching about would be those "we don't believe in spanking" parents. So dare I say, society plays a role in creating these types of kids too that know there will be no serious consequence for their actions.

[CrazyKell]

How many people now-a-days consider that abuse though? Sadly, a lot do. Also sadly...most of the types everyone is bitching about would be those "we don't believe in spanking" parents. So dare I say, society plays a role in creating these types of kids too that know there will be no serious consequence for their actions.


I know. It's a double-edged sword.

Oh and I don't believe in spanking. ;) (kids I mean. I fully approve other kinds.)

[lauralynne]

most of you hit the nail on the head: It's not other people's kids that I hate, it's other people's PARENTING.

My parenting isn't perfect - neither are my children. But I'm actively involved in their lives and hold them responsible for their actions (meaning they have appropriate consequences when they do something wrong). I try to make the consequences as close to "real world" as possible. they'll be out in the real world with natural consequences in fewer years than I care to think about.
At home they misbehave, they push the limits, they test me (to the BRINK and beyond sometimes). But that's their job. Outside our home they're well mannered, pleasant, conversational (you'd be surprised at the number of teenager who aren't able to hold a conversation these days - one of my biggest pet peeves) and I'm complimented on the manners and behavior by most other parents. I'm proud of that.
I wish more parents worked harder at being parents and deprioritized the notion of being friends. And every child's number one lesson should be personal responsibility.
anyway...I could go on and on...but I think we're all on teh same page pretty much.

[lauralynne]

I know. It's a double-edged sword.

Oh and I don't believe in spanking.


Like so many other hot topics, you can choose not to believe in it - just don't judge me for believing in and doing it.

[Tsunami]

Some kids need to be spanked. I was one of those kids :lol:

[defector]

My kids are pretty well behaved, and surely respectful, especially in public. My wife says it's because they are afraid of me. I think she was joking. :lol

[Papa_Complex]

Some kids need to be spanked. I was one of those kids :lol:

And the trend continues.......

[KSGregman]

Some kids need to be spanked. I was one of those kids :lol:

Me too. My Mom swears up and down that I'm responsible for every grey hair on her head. :lmao: :lmao:

[Cass]

The neighbour's knuckle-dragging teenage thug and his friend ripped off two bikes from another neighbour, who was knocking at their door at 11:00pm saying, "I've got a problem with your son. Those are my kids' bikes." A couple of weeks later the same two condom failures broke into the townhouse next door to me and trashed it. Fortunately he was too stupid to deny this, and now seems to be spending his days at a foster home.

The new neighbours, who just moved in on the opposite side of me from the trashed unit, let their kids use the whole neighbourhood as their toybox. I have to watch out for their kids who dart out from between parked cars in the lot, and their stuff which can be found laying in the lot, on the sidewalk, in the middle of the courtyard, in my front yard, where I park my motorcycle...... I suppose that they come by it naturally though, because their parents are slowly annexing the whole courtyard as their patio.

I'd start picking up shit that's laying around in public areas and taking it straight to the dumpster. That's fucking ridiculous.

[Papa_Complex]

I'd start picking up shit that's laying around in public areas and taking it straight to the dumpster. That's fucking ridiculous.

They were just loading up the mommyvan for a weekend away from home :wink: