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Originally Posted by My lil friend  It is never the parents that are working with a child having a tantrum that get on my nerves. Ive walked up to a mom who is trying to use the moment as a training time and encouraged them. Told them that their hard work will come through in the end. Ive given my place in the check out to mothers with little ones that have just had ENOUGH and need to go home.
These are not the moments that bother me. It is unfortunate that for all of the hard work that some parents put into their children,there are some out there that just dont care. It is the mothers who are embarrased because their little one is throwing a fit that my heart goes out to,but for every one of those moms I see, I see 3 that dont care or worse are being just as ugly to their kids in public.
Civility at home and in public are important to humanity. If we are not civil to our own then how can we be civil to people we dont even know or the animals that we are supposed to be caring for. |
I think you are being generous with a 3:1 ratio. I think there are far more parents who don't give a hoot than those that do. I had an encounter at Wally World not too long ago. A
lovely (sarcasm) woman was on the cell phone talking loudly about how wasted she had gotten the night before while one of her kids was literally climbing UP the shelves and her other two were taking the cart and shoving it in to passers-by.
