where are the parents? let me tell you. i walk up to the mom and say, "excuse me, your son is following my daughter around calling her 'ugly girl'". mom immediately jumps into her best peacock stance and says, "well...your daughter told my son she doesn't like him and THAT IS WHY he is saying that to her". i ask eloise what happened and she tells me the kid was following her around, name-calling, so she told him - "you are mean and i don't like you"- which frankly, is fine with me. the kid's mom is telling me that her dear son only resorted to verbal abuse when he was told he's not liked. she fails to mention that the kid kept riding back to the other side of the park to seek out eloise and name call. i can't stand there and call her son a liar without making the situation worse, so i cut my (daughter's) losses, tell her i'll talk to eloise and that she must to talk to her son.
Gross. People suck. Whatever happened to "it takes a village to raise a child" where other people, strangers even, could correct children in public and the parents would be GLAD??
People used to correct my ass all time when I was growing up...and I usually deserved it. My parents did not hesitate to discipline me if another adult let them know I was out of line. My parents would verify what had happened, apologize to the other adult, make me apologize too, and then give me some form of punishment. I hated it at the time, felt victimized by my "mean" parents, but now I realize they were right!
I know it's a different world and you can't always trust people, kids deserve respect too blah blah....but I feel like there is something lost now, where parents stick up for their asshole children more often than believe another concerned parent who is just trying to do the right thing by their own kid too.
My first thought was 'What a vile child'. But at that young age, he is probably copying what someone else is telling him or someone else in front of him :(
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where are the parents? let me tell you. i walk up to the mom and say, "excuse me, your son is following my daughter around calling her 'ugly girl'". mom immediately jumps into her best peacock stance and says, "well...your daughter told my son she doesn't like him and THAT IS WHY he is saying that to her". i ask eloise what happened and she tells me the kid was following her around, name-calling, so she told him - "you are mean and i don't like you"- which frankly, is fine with me. the kid's mom is telling me that her dear son only resorted to verbal abuse when he was told he's not liked. she fails to mention that the kid kept riding back to the other side of the park to seek out eloise and name call. i can't stand there and call her son a liar without making the situation worse, so i cut my (daughter's) losses, tell her i'll talk to eloise and that she must to talk to her son.
and that's how assholes are raised. :|
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People used to correct my ass all time when I was growing up...and I usually deserved it. My parents did not hesitate to discipline me if another adult let them know I was out of line. My parents would verify what had happened, apologize to the other adult, make me apologize too, and then give me some form of punishment. I hated it at the time, felt victimized by my "mean" parents, but now I realize they were right!
I know it's a different world and you can't always trust people, kids deserve respect too blah blah....but I feel like there is something lost now, where parents stick up for their asshole children more often than believe another concerned parent who is just trying to do the right thing by their own kid too.
I think your daughter is beautiful. Always have.
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holy crap, no kidding.
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