Baby Fidgette - My parents were about as liberal as they come - but out in public - it was different - and I would have been in big trouble also. Regardless of my age ...if I had been two years old, I would have been marched home and would have been in "big big trouble." And, I would have deserved it also.
I think when we see parents with the attitude "that their children can do anything they want and behave any way they want wherever they want" ----- from this, we know why their children behave the way they do. It really is their parent's fault. It's called "spoiling....." Actually, it's worse than spoiling. It is parents with no respect for other people.
I am sure we all know that children do have "their moments," but these are the times when we need to take on the responsibility of being a parent. Mine generally got a good talking to and were taken home. If they had become sick and didn't feel well, I may have skipped the talking to, but they were still taken home as quickly as possible.
At a funeral once - I saw a complete stranger get up and cross the aisle and offer to take a screaming little child outside for its mother ---who was doing nothing about it. She said, "No" and let her child scream for another 10 minutes before she finally went outside....and I think this was only because so many people were turning around looking at her...
To each his own - but I have no respect for anyone who allows their children to behave in this manner when they are out in public. And at a funeral.....this has to be the most disrespectful thing in the world.
Actually - what we are talking about now - is far far worse than having a little puppy in a store....no comparison ... even though I don't do that either.
Carol Jean |