Wishes

[gilathief]

Everyone should go here and read this entry, because dude, it is high time someone did something... I could rant on this but I didn't yet and I will try to refrain.

Also, I am terrible with remembering birthdays, so before I forget:
Happy Birthday platyg!!!

Comments

[rolypolypony]

from the comments in the entry: Pick the toddler up and march him out of the store pronto. My shopping can wait; teaching him that the world does not revolve around him cannot.

That's EXACTLY what my grandmother would have done w/ me if I had done that, and that's just what I'd do if ever in such a situation.

[platyg]

Thank you!!!

[word_herder]

I worked in a grocery store for two years and saw more of that shit than I care to remember. I was never angry at the child because I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it was the parent's fault he was acting that way. Oh, the lessons that child is learning from his mother! I guarantee you--he will be just another statistic pretty soon. He'll be diagnosed with ADD or ADHD because he refuses to listen to direction; he'll be prescribed some medication to make him sit still, curbing his ability to function on his own; he'll be an angsty teen who doesn't know how to handle the world; he'll be prescribed more drugs which will make him suicidal. Yeah, his life is going to be just peachy.

[houses7177]

Ugh. How nicely this fits with my rants on politesse and rudeness. Ugh.

[shutterbug12]

I'm not a parent, but I KNOW that those kinds of parents are so completely ridiculous. They're the kind of parents who are really doing a wonderful job of messing up future generations.