Super Angry

[Blough]

I used to go to a discovery/play/museum place when I was young, and would see all kinds of bad parenting. Letting their kids mess stuff up, while I'm trying to keep it orderly so we can play, and then just leaving without making their children cleaning it up. I once heard a suggestion from a parent that they should either have more adult supervisors and just let the parents leave (it isn't daycare!) or have a way that parents could just lock their kids in the rooms, and that way they wouldn't have to bother with dealing with their children. What if there is a fire or medical emergency in the room, and the kids can't get out?
Some parents bug me, a lot, and teach their kids that there aren't any consequences to their actions. Just telling a kid they can't do something doesn't mean anything unless you follow through and punish them when they do it, and make sure that they don't do it. If you don't, you are teaching them that they don't have to do what you say, and you are not the authority.

 

[Zante]

I once heard a suggestion from a parent that they should either have more adult supervisors and just let the parents leave (it isn't daycare!) or have a way that parents could just lock their kids in the rooms, and that way they wouldn't have to bother with dealing with their children. 

 
Why did they have kids in the first place if they are such a nuisance for them?

 

[Blough]

Babies are cute, and people don't think about them growing up. They also see parents who have angelic children due to good parenting, and assume that is how all children are.

 

[Blough]

I'm talking about the parent's at the museum, not about the parents of your niece, Tonym.

 

[Akasha72]

some kids have no discipline and they grow up into these teenagers who hang around on street corners terrorising neighbourhoods. Society has changed drasticly and it's not for the better. 
 
We were taken to museums as kids but we were made to hold our parents hands and we were told not to touch. If we ignored the verbal 'no' we got our hands smacked, not hard but enough to teach us that there were consequences if we did not heed the verbal first. We cried a bit, and sulked a bit but we learned to do as we were told. This seems to be lacking now and so we have kids that do as they please and if they hurt themselves .... well the parents can always sue and make some cash 

 

[RainboWBacoN420]

some kids have no discipline and they grow up into these teenagers who hang around on street corners terrorising neighbourhoods. Society has changed drasticly and it's not for the better. 
 
We were taken to museums as kids but we were made to hold our parents hands and we were told not to touch. If we ignored the verbal 'no' we got our hands smacked, not hard but enough to teach us that there were consequences if we did not heed the verbal first. We cried a bit, and sulked a bit but we learned to do as we were told. This seems to be lacking now and so we have kids that do as they please and if they hurt themselves .... well the parents can always sue and make some cash 

I completely agree with this.
 
Honestly, with the things I've seen in my life, it makes me a little afraid to bring children of my own into this world... I'm not sure if it's more worrying to think about them being harmed by problematic people, or them becoming the problem since it seems so easy to influence people into committing crimes and unlawful activities to benefit themselves. It just seems easier to earn money through gang or criminal activities than earning a dollar through an honest days work. I live in the Bay Area near San Francisco, California. And gang violence and drug use have always been heavily influenced among young people of society over many years now. I've seen this on many occasions on people I used to call friends. 
 
But back to the conversation, it's becoming a lot more frequent to see undisciplined children running around everywhere. I work at an outlet mall, I see it everyday where parents just don't care and never bother to teach their children right from wrong. It really saddens me to wonder what these kids will be like as adults.

 

[Akasha72]

we learn by example, so if we were brought up with discipline then we are more likely to bring our own up in the same manner. I know if I'd of had children they would have been a line drawn and if they crossed that line they'd be the same as I was - smacked (not hard enough to do any damage but enough to learn I didn't want another one) and sent to my room with all privileges taken away. Then made to apologise because the embarassment of being stood in front of someone and saying sorry is a lesson in itself.