Fuck you, seriously. You’re an asshole, and it’s a very good thing you never continued your genetic line. The only comfort I get from your existence is the knowledge that when you die you haven’t left any other little assholes around to carry on your nasty attitude.
And I have absolutely no problem with child free people, but I’ll make an exception for you. I hope you grow old alone, with no family or loved ones to care for your bitter mean ass, and you rot for many years in a nursing home filled with screaming, crying, pants shitting, seniors. And I hope you descend in senility, and become one yourself. And I hope that when you do, you never see anything outside of the depressing four walls of your room ever again, because we certainly wouldn’t want to inconvenience anyone with your less-than-stellar manners.
This is exactly what I would do. 9 times out of 10, pushing the stroller more is what gets my son (10 months) to calm down again and usually drop off to sleep pretty quickly. Only when it reached the shriek level would it be clear that moving around wasn’t sufficient.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but you’re completely justified in that reaction to someone suggesting that children should be taught to maintain a specific level of social courtesy. Why yes, that was quite the logical reaction you just had right there.
OMG, I’m experiencing it now. I’m at the library and there’s a baby nearby who’ making fairly noisy fussing sounds. I’m kinda hearing, kinda not. It happens.
But if that rugrat starts shrieking and thrashing around, he/she is in for a world of hurt.
The bigger problem is the guy sitting next to me with his music on so loud, the sound is deafening me and I can discern subtle hints that this particular Green Day song was influenced by Grieg with bits of Pachabel woven in. Good luck, son, with your ear drums in a few years.
P.S. Does anybody know why the OP was banned and what the username means?
I’m not particularly fond of kids and have very little patience for them, but for the tantrum that you describe, when it’s that over-the-top, often it’s best to let the whirlwind just blow itself out.
If an 8-year-old is kicking and flailing wildly, a parent trying to pick him up will just end up with a fat lip. It may be as annoying as shit for bystanders as its happening, but that kind of fury extinguishes itself by its own might (takes a lot of pent up energy to explode like that). Better just let the powderkeg blow, then when the kid is rational again, kill it.
Okay, okay, I’m kidding. I meant you can discipline him/her later when he/she has calmed down and is rational enough to appreciate and understand why the behavior is unacceptable. During the tantrum however, trying to usher a kid out the door would be like trying to hug the Tazmanian Devil form the Bugs Bunny show.
Pretty much. Some child psychologists will recommend just ignoring it. Even in a public place and even if they can be removed safely. If its being done to get attention, or to get out of a shopping trip your kid doesn’t want to be on - then its possible that the WORSE thing you can do for the kid is to remove them from the place. It may be the best thing for the other shoppers, but its a bad long term decision for them as well, since you don’t want a teenager who thinks he or she can get what she wants by being naughty in public.
He didn’t say children should be taught to maintain a specific level of social courtesy. He said:
And
Ok?
Age discrimination is illegal?! You’ve gotta be fuckin kidding me. Allowing babies to occasionally cry in a store is NOT “Age Discrimination”. Do we let babies vote? Or hold down jobs? Why not? Is that “Age Discrimination”? No, it isn’t. It’s a recognition of the fact that they are, oh yeah, babies.
So, again, Fuck You Captain_C, and DiosaBellissima, I’ve always liked you as a poster, so I’ll assume you missed his first post. But if you didn’t, and you agree with that retarded reasoning, fuck you too.
Here’s the deal I am willing to make, as my wife calls our little bundle of joy a ‘tube-sausage’ next to me.
I will do everything I can do to stop the baby from crying when she starts, but I do take her out to restaurants and will continue to do so. I never take her to the theater though.
Seriously, we all have to like everyone now? I thought we just had to accept different people, not like them. If I have to start liking everyone I may as well kill myself now. The frustration wouldn’t be worth it.
Judging a group of individuals like Captain_C did is bigoted and ignorant, whether the group is children, black people, redheads, whatever. You can do it, sure. And I can think you are a mean, stupid person.
He wasn’t suggesting that children should be taught courtesy, etc. He was suggesting that infants should be held to the same behavioural standards as adults. While the level of venom in miss elizabeth’s response might have been a tad over the top, it was an exceptionally idiotic statement she was responding to.
Why would any parents NEED (your word) to take their babies to Barnes & Noble? Or to restaurants above Chucky Cheese, or on airplanes, for that matter? I’ve even seen “parents” pushing strollers through Las Vegas casinos! WTF?
It may well be a generational difference, but when I was a kid, none of the above would have been even remotely imaginable.
I can answer one of those. I need to take my kids on an airplane (and have done since they were infants) because otherwise they would not be able to see their extended family or their other native country.
I suppose I could have avoided all this by not marrying or procreating with a person native to another continent, but that seems a little far to go to avoid offending people on airplanes.
