Your kids are brats unless they do what I want them to when and where!

[uppityperson]

I am the one with all the manners. "They" are not and neither are "you" for "defending" "them". so there.
:sarcasm: :popcorn: :rofl:

[Pithlet]

1. And kids were perfectly behaved in the 60's/70's/1800's/whenever

Not like the kids today.

[uppityperson]

3. Exactly!

I was a model child. Yours are brats. I had to behave to the standards I remember so yours should be better. poo

[Pithlet]

5. I always walked exactly three steps behind my parents

at all times. I never so much as let out a peep. My mom didn't even have to give me a look. She was so good at parenting that our minds were linked, and we lived as one.

[uppityperson]

6. See! If she could do it, why can't you?

you are bad

[Redstone]

9. Yes, weren't they? Not like those little bastids these days!

"These days." That phrase is always a prelude to an old-fartish rant, isn't it?

Disclaimer: I'm an actual old fart, and that phrase still sets me off.

Redstone

[uppityperson]

12. as opposed to "those days" when kids had to actually walk to school

houses only had 1 phone, maybe, and that was plenty enough to get in touch with someone if you had the need. None of this everybody needin' their own cell phone to continually moniter everyone else. I mean, really. :nopity:



I'm an old uppity fart too, these days. peace

[obxhead]

2. ...

The :popcorn: is good tonight.

[uppityperson]

4. ...

[obxhead]

7. Now that is a nice popcorn machine you have there.

[uppityperson]

8. Thank you. Notice there are no kids crowding around it?

That is because we only allow well behaved kids in my universe.






except mine.





who is exceptionally well behaved.

[Redstone]

10. Thanks, UP. You posted well.

Redstone

[WCGreen]

11. The only thing about kids that gets me going is when

parents take them to places they shouldn't be...

I also don't care for parents who let their kids run wild...

I understand kids are kids, but if there are no boundaries, then there is chaos....

My parents never took me out on a saturday night to a restaurant.... Now, it's standard fair... If I go to a restaurant chock full of kids, I'm talking like six, seven year olds, on a friday or saturday night after nine O'Clock, I turn right around and split...

[friesianrider]

13. Hahaha!

"If I go to a restaurant chock full of kids, I'm talking like six, seven year olds, on a friday or saturday night after nine O'Clock, I turn right around and split..."

Me too! Or, I ask the hostesses to seat us away from the screaming 5 year olds, please :)

[WCGreen]

14. Kids are not little adults and we shouldn't expect them to be...

But, I blame it on the parents...

[Pool Hall Ace]

17. Yeah, hostesses are pretty accommodating about seating you

away from the kiddies if you ask for it.

But if you scan the place and it's wall-to-wall screamers and food-flingers, it's best to just leave.

None of the parents want to share with me how they tune out the ruckus. :cry:

One mother of three monsterboys in my neighborhood fixes herself a White Russian every night, but I would prefer not to imbibe.

[Pithlet]

15. You remind me of my stepdad.

My sister and I were already teens when he and my mom met, thankfully, because he could never stand little kids. Whenever we'd go out to eat as a family, if there were more than one or two kids in the restaurant, we'd have to turn right around and go somewhere else. We were laughing about that on his 50th birthday recently, when my sister and I were over with our kids to celebrate, all aged 4 and under. He's taken becoming a grandpa in stride!

[WCGreen]

18. It's just obonoxious when kids are runnin' all over the place...

One of my earliest memories is of breaking free from my mother and running smack into a waiter carryin' a tray full of glasses....

I'll never forget how awful I felt after that...

Cause my parents sat me down and told me what I did was wrong...

Didn't scream at the waiter like I think would happen today...

[Pithlet]

19. That doesn't automatically happen.

I would never yell at the waiter if my kid ran into them. And obnoxious behavior from parents like that has always happened, because obnoxious people have always been around. I honestly don't object to people complaining about obnoxious, bad parents. It just gets my dander up when it is stated in generalities, as if being obnoxious was an inherent trait in parenthood. It's not. If you were obnoxious before you had kids, you're likely to be obnoxious after you have them, and if you weren't, you probably won't be. And I don't think it's a sudden phenomena that has sprung up in the last ten years.

[DanCa]

16. My dad used to say "children are to be seen and not tolerated."