Shouting at someone else's kids

[killiekosmos]

There's nothing wrong with rebuking children in public - better that than letting them and their parents away with unacceptable or dangerous behaviour. I'm not sure that chasing pigeons qualifies? OTOH if they were feeding the blighters.....

 

[buggi]

There's nothing wrong with rebuking children in public - better that than letting them and their parents away with unacceptable or dangerous behaviour. I'm not sure that chasing pigeons qualifies? OTOH if they were feeding the blighters.....

children that are mean to animals become serial killers

 

[snorri]

I was in a shop one day and spotted a child with his arm up to the elbow in a big open topped jar. I wondered if I should mention it to the parent who was closeby and looking elsewhere but decided to keep quiet. Anyway, the child extracted a coloured ball from the jar and put it in his mouth. I thought I really should tell the parent in case the child chokes...just at that the child let out a yell, the coloured ball was actually soap.

 

[buggi]

I was in a shop one day and spotted a child with his arm up to the elbow in a big open topped jar. I wondered if I should mention it to the parent who was closeby and looking elsewhere but decided to keep quiet. Anyway, the child extracted a coloured ball from the jar and put it in his mouth. I thought I really should tell the parent in case the child chokes...just at that the child let out a yell, the coloured ball was actually soap.

 

[Joe24]

children that are mean to animals become serial killers

I used to chase pigeons sometimes, am i going to be a serial killer?
My mum used to tell me not to do it though, but we still chased them abit. Just enough to make the walk fast then fly off. The stupid buggers always came back though, so we did it again.
That must be a sign that they enjoy it abit?

 

[Sittingduck]

Betty has hit the nail on the head... Ignorant parents texting away while their darling offspring run into jeopardy! See this situation all too often - a sign o' the times I'm afraid.

Cathryn, I think you were right to voice your opinion and perhaps the parents might pay more attention to what their kids are upto after this incident.


God I sound old and boring

 

[fossyant]

TBH..I went ape with both sets of my kids cousins a number of years back, winding up our young two, then it got too much - they were early and late tees, messing about with ice..... in a pub...... I just stood up and said.."Oi stop it"... oh and they did.......

 

[Crackle]

I've disciplined other peoples kids, go to Germany, everyone does it there a much better community minded code of acceptable behaviour. Don't think I'd be bothered about them chasing pigeons though. I have in the past told people in the park they shouldn't feed the damn things (pigeons, not children).

 

[badkitty]

As a non-Mum, how wrong is it to shout at someone else's kid?

It's not wrong at all. If the little beasts are doing something so mean or unpleasant that you feel the urge to risk the wrath of their parents, then go for it.

I happily b*llock other peoples kids if I need to. Especially in the lord of the flies arena which is the local soft play centre, where kids run wild. which is great, but occassionally need a little, er guidance, as to how to behave.(ie, not to pummel my kids face into the floor and expect to get away with it) Am amazed I've never had an irate parent after me, but it's probably only a matter of time.

Don't get me wrong though. My kids aren't saints and they've been told off, quite rightly by other adults for committing crimes out of my sight etc. As long as the telling off was fair, I've got no problem with that. Anyway sometimes it helps if someone other than their parent tells them off. How else do they learn that their actions affect others?

 

[Crackle]

There's a sense of Deja vu about that post.

Have you posted this twice Cathryn? Really, let me be the first to admonish you in public for such a stupid error.

 

[badkitty]

Yep - she did it to see if we were paying attention...

Erm, i obviously wasn't...

I blame my badly behaved kids for befuddling my brain.

 

[Crackle]

Just blame the kids full stop. Is it not a well known phenomenon that women's brains shrink after childbirth.

I blame my badly behaved kids for my voices ability to silence a shopping centre crowd within a 100 yards

 

[yello]

Rats with wings.

and only marginally more tolerable than children!

 

[badkitty]

Just blame the kids full stop. Is it not a well known phenomenon that women's brains shrink after childbirth.

Hey! I said it was befuddled, not shrunken! Big difference Crackle my friend.
I'm knackered and in urgent need of some medicinal alcohol.

 

[Ben M]

I'm trying to work out what's wrong with chasing pigeons...