Never mind fucking fat kids and stop in the name of love, it is incredible to me that an adult can go to a store with a limited budget and not have a thought about what it will cost.
I understand people can be caught out, leave their purse or whatever at home but to be totally unaware- that seems to me to be as if he were trying to get the goods written off as no charge.
Doesn’t matter if the kids were little shits.
Well, duh. Buying children would be like adopting them.
Wouldn’t work. You have to seal deals like that with a handshake.
It seems to me that there’s no evidence that the kids were little shits at all. I don’t think the OP ever came back to tell us why he thinks that the kids should be sent to the gulag for doing something that their dad had given them express permission to do, and the only other people pushing the ‘kids are little shits’ line are the usual suspects who crawl out of their lairs regularly to remind us of how much they hate all children and all parents.
The dad in question was stupid, no doubt, but he isn’t the first and won’t be the last to wildly mis-estimate his grocery bill. I don’t know why or how people do that, but I’m not sure that doing so provides conclusive evidence that these are terrible kids who are going to grow up to be terrible people.
Please tell me that even as a child you knew that really couldn’t happen.
The odds aren’t very high in favor of them becoming responsible, productive members of society if they are being raised by a moron like the dad in question. Even if the dad had given them “permission” to do something, there’s no excuse for ruining all that candy. I was shopping for groceries at five and knew enough about portion control not to do stuff that bad. And would have had the good manners to apologize profusely if I had. I had also learned (regrettably from experience) to make damn sure my parents actually had enough money to pay for stuff before picking it out.
You don’t have to be a parent (or some neurotic infertile that insists on being called a parent even though the only thing that ever logged in her womb was dried out semen and STIs) to raise a child. I have been the guardian for plenty of kids in my family and they have all turned out to be reponsible, productive teenagers and adults.
Let’s just say I thought it was as real as knowing the future. 
When I was a child I thought my teeth were worth a quarter a piece. What’s your point?
I’ve successfully raised both kids and dogs, and there are lots of similarities. Give positive re-enforcement when they are behaving. Be clear and consistent when they are not. Give lots of love. Give them freedom up to the point of their being close to trouble. It works pretty well.
Plays well in Canada too. 
Dad may well not be the primary caretaker. Maybe mom is a lot more on top of things and the kids only spend time with dad occasionally. Give his cluelessness, I’m actually far more inclined to believe that theory.
Honestly, it’s no wonder that people like you think that all kids today are going straight to hell in a handbasket when you have this knee-jerk reaction to automatically assume the worst about all kids and parents. You’re looking at one single incident (which you didn’t even witness, BTW), and somehow you’ve decided that you know all you need to know about these kids and their entire future. Based on them wanting some candy! That’s how low you’re going to set the bar for ‘terrible child heading for life of crime’?
Oh please, no 5 year old has that kind of foresight and understanding of money and value. And if you learned from experience, doesn’t that imply that your parents made exactly this kind of mistake at one point in the past? They must have been terrible parents, no wonder their kid turned out so poorly.
Wow. Just…wow.
Yes, many of the things that work so well in training dogs also work with kids, especially young ones. However, what I was responding to was teaching kids to heel and other such nonsense.
My bolding of course. And I’m commenting solely on the bolded bit btw.
I’m racking my brains here to think of something in my past experience or reading that might even come close to being so fucking stupid and so gratuitously hateful at the same time.
Nup…nothing comes to mind.
:rolleyes:
One of the best training techniques for both dogs and small children is ignoring egregiously bad behavior that’s obviously designed to gain attention. When they behave, you engage; when they misbehave, you ignore.
Just sayin’.
Some puppies suffer brain damage in their early days, just as some children endure the same. Sometimes training techniques don’t work quite so well, and ignoring the bad behavior just encourages more egregious behavior in response.
Our current crop of special needs posters are a case in point!
Just sayin’ 
Wack!?? Man! That’s a fact of life for some people … situations/life can change quickly
I agree. Let them eat cake.
I wonder what the poor people are doing?
It implies I got sick of paying for things out of my own money early on because my parents could not be responsible enough to manage their money. And my parents didn’t raise me, my extended family did, the responsible ones at least, which is why I turned out to be exceptional person I am today that has the intelligence not to worship kids.