As far as I know we in the UK don't have the luxury of dedicated dog parks. Wish we did as it would be less stressful


Shirl.

At our local dog park, we have a no children under 10 rule. It would be great if parents followed the rules, but of course a lot of them don't. What type of message does it send to your kids when you ignore the giant sign on the gate and think you are above the rules? I am the Vice President of our local dog park society and it is amazing how many people choose not to follow the rules and complain about the rules on the dog park Facebook. Come on people, if we took our dogs to the kids splash park that is just down the hill from the dog park and let them run loose... Parents would be livid. How is it fair that your children get to ruin my dog's time at the dog park because you can't be bothered to follow the rules? We have the rule for several reasons; the dogs safety (my dogs could be stepped on and killed), the kids safety (dogs can trample or bite kids) and for liability reasons. Why would you put your child in an unsafe situation like a dog park? I don't understand it...

Uncalled for?? Absolutely not. The 4 yr old girl completely fit the dictionary definition of BRAT: "a misbehaved child". This kid did not sit still for one second, she ran from one side of the room to the other, took off her shoes and jumped from one seat to the other, ran past the receptionist into open rooms where nurses were drawing blood, dumped a bag of trail mix on one seat to pick out the candy and pushed half the pile on the floor (OK she can't read the sign that says no food or drink allowed, but could her parents?), tore pages out of magazines, stood on a seat pressing her face open-mouth on the window, threw several tantrums and ran out the front door into the parking lot several times. The only thing that got a rise out of her parents (dad on an ipad and mom texting on phone the whole time) was when she went out in the parking lot.

Yes, she is a brat. Her parents are even bigger brats for allowing this.

This is a clinic for lab work only. I was stuck there for over 2 hrs and luckily the brat was there for a half a hour. The receptionist tried to correct her a few times, and other patients were even more annoyed than me.

I am a parent too, also a grandparent, and auntie to many, and I love kids. I don't expect them to be perfect, but I do think that parents who don't teach them basic social behavior that is appropriate for certain situations really do the kids a disservice.

And I still stand by my statement. Calling a child a brat, whom you've had ONE experience with, is uncalled for. Misbehavior would require her parents actually trying to change the behavior and her ignoring it. Her parents sound like tools. That is not HER fault. She clearly wasn't a brat, just a child doing what she has been taught is okay. Bash her parents all you want, but calling a child names is ridiculous, and a bit childish in itself.

Okay, I have been following this thread and I find that a lot of parents do not pay attention to their kids while in public and as a result the kids do act like brats. I work in an upscale hair salon and I experience this phenomenon almost daily both in the salon and almost everywhere I go, to say it's annoying is an understatement. Seriously some people should not have children, if you don't want to take the time to teach your children how to behave in public then stay home with them. Just the other day in the salon a mother sat in a stylist's chair for a long appointment of color and cut which is not fair to a young child and this mother did not lift her head up from her magazine even once to discipline her unruly child. He disrupted the entire salon on a very busy day running and jumping everywhere, getting under everyone's feet, making so much noise and going into areas of the salon where we keep and mix chemicals, and our break room The mother was absolutely useless in disciplining her child and expected us to supervise her unruly child. Finally I had to ask him to stay out of these areas and he told me he was going to bite me, all the while the mom ignored him. Other clients were annoyed as I heard several say they get a babysitter so they can come and relax in the salon only to be disturbed by someone else's unruly child. While mattress shopping I encountered a terribly unruly child whose mother ignored him running all over the store and jumping from one bed to another, screaming and carrying on, it was just ridiculous. I was trying to lay on mattresses and couldn't because the kid was jumping on them. I don't think it's fair to anyone that is subjected to this behavior and parents should leave if they cannot get control of their children. I can't take my Yorkies to the dog park because of children chasing them, trying to pick them up, yelling in their faces, and the parents not supervising them. I feel like I am being punished because on a daily basis because I cannot go anywhere without having to deal with children not being supervised. I don't blame the children because they are being children but parents need to be responsible for the terrors they are creating. As a child we were never allowed to be disruptive in public, my mom would leave the store or wherever if we acted up and we would be disciplined. We didn't dare misbehave in public because we knew there would be serious consequences for our actions. I do not see parents supervising their children and I see them laugh when they are misbehaving, I saw a kid in Whole Foods sticking his fingers in prepared food and I said something to the mother and she was dismissive and rude, thankfully a manager was nearby and asked her to leave the store if she couldn't watch her child.

Mother Allegedly Beats Up Woman Who Told Her To Quiet Down Her C - Fox 2 News Headlines

I saw this article and thought about some of the comments here. Interesting that if we try to help someone or suggest to someone that their child is unruly this could be the outcome.