Confession Bear

Question: Are you a parent?

I am. I believe in discipline, which means giving attention to your child for ask that they do- support good behaviour discourage bad behaviour and (without being a violent jerk about it) punishing your child for conducting inappropriate or disruptive acts.

Question: are you a parent also?

No, I'm not a parent, but I have 9 siblings, and know a lot of other big families. I've spent a lot of time around kids and parents, and while I agree with you that kids need discipline, to be encouraged to behave and discouraged from misbehaving, I've also learned from experience to give people the benefit of the doubt, to sympathize, to not jump to conclusions. While you can encourage good behavior in children and discourage bad behavior in them, they're still people, and you can't CONTROL them, and sometimes parents just have to go out in public and have to bring their kids with them. By being out in public, the kids will eventually learn how to behave in public, if you're just patient and kind and understanding. You don't know what their circumstances are, and you know, if it's not easy for you to put up with those kids for five minutes or so, it can't be easy for the people raising them. You have kids, so you should be able to sympathize. Just smile or something. Maybe offer to help. Think about this http://www.kidspot.com.au/to-the-mean-stranger-who-judged-my-parenting-abilities-thank-you/ . I'm not telling you how to be a parent or raise your kids; I'm telling you to be a decent human being and not lecture or criticize other parents. You wouldn't want them to do that to you; obviously you know more about your kids and what's best for them, etc.

You're getting me ALL wrong. I'm talking about the brats who scream and demand for toys and tear shelves and products down if they don't get it, run around name calling absolute strangers in a building because they didn't get their (___), or even the kids who cuss.

Get it now? There's no sympathy for f**k poor parenting like that.

Crying and asking why they couldn't have something is totally normal and expected- the atrocious behaviors above are not.

I'm sorry you were offended by my comment. As I said, that was not my intent. I understand that, of course, you have the right to make whatever meme you want, and I'm sorry you had to deal with an unideal situation, but please don't cuss at me.

Offended? Cussing at you? Too bad you can't see my face and hear my voice, because I thought it was funny you were going so strung up about such a general statement.

If you would like to request that I no longer use vulgarity while talking to you, that's one thing. Pretending that I'm "cussing at you" is another.

Example:
"There's no sympathy for f**k poor parenting like that" is NOT the same as say...
"f**k you, random stranger I do not know! Go blow a donkey and swallow!"

See? You weren't involved aside from reading what I had to say about others... Again MY HUMAN RIGHT to have AND share. c:

Of course. You're right. :P I'm sorry, this isn't going well. I'll shut up now. :X

What? Never. Don't ever suppress your thoughts or feelings. That's just a crime.

In any case, I agree when others get mad at parents because their child is having a perfectly normal hissy fit, that it would be hilarious to have THEM try and baby sit said child for a day.

I just don't appreciate, rude destructive beasts is all. :p

And I can lecture and criticize all I like about others parenting, just like you take upon yourself to lecture me about my memes and my opinion... Which, in case you forgot, is something I'm entirely permitted to have AND share. C:

And I'm sorry if I'm out of line here; I know I don't know the specific circumstances. But you're being kind of general on the internet and you don't know who's going to read this; maybe some parents that could really use encouragement, not discouragement. Your meme seems kind of like just a general complaint and insult to parents with misbehaving kids in public in general. I don't want to criticize you for having to deal with those people, and there are bad parents in the world, I just want to suggest that you're careful what you say and how you say it and who you say it to... I'm sorry. I guess it's hard to say things over the internet when you can't hear facial expressions or hear tone of voice on the other side... :P And I get kinda sensitive on this subject maybe a little too quickly, because I hear people who aren't parents complain about noisy, misbehaving kids and their parents all the time, and I don't think it's fair and I get tired of it. That's part of the reason I wanted to know if you were a parent first. :P

What most people don't understand is that crying and stomping their little feet out of frustration is NORMAL.

The tantrums I'm referring to invoices children demanding things, screaming at their parents, cussing at their parents or strangers even or the little beasts who go on the rampage- destroying store, park or restaurant property. I get an eye full of that SO much more often than not- and there is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for such pathetic parenting or guidance.

No, crying is natural. Not exactly fun, but totally normal. When kids start screaming and demanding things, or worse, cussing- THAT'S atrocious!