# What is up with letting children run wild in public?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-letting-children-run-wild-in-public/570553
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 7, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-letting-children-run-wild-in-public/570553 "2011-02-07T18:41:52Z")
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### Author: ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-letting-children-run-wild-in-public/570553/18 "2011-02-07T19:56:49Z")

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> [@Dante](#):
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> You’ve been here since 2000, you should know better. This is the Dope.
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> I’ll lay odds that it’ll focus on **Lurker** ’s use of water, which by the way, was awesome.

> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> Yup, you got it. “Well, you didn’t have to THROW WATER on them!” “Maybe they both have Asperger’s!” “Maybe the whole family has Asperger’s!”

Well, I am a parent of children the same ages as described in the OP and you won’t get any defense of the parents from me. The only thing that would have been better is if **Lurker** threw water on the parents, too, because, you know, fire spreads quickly and all.

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