WTF?! Disipline your damn kid!!!

[Seshat]

K said she couldn't help it she had too much energy. So, while hubby was in the checkout, I had K come outside with me and do jumping jacks to burn off that energy. One of the other customers leaving the store bitched me out for having her do exercise for a couple of minutes.

Perfect solution!

Or if you'd been at my shopping centre, there's a park across the road. A nice big one, with plenty of room for a kid to go for a good run.

Kids are KIDS, not miniature adults. It's a real pity more people don't understand that.

[LillFilly]

Like those mothers who tell the reporters/police/everyone "My baby didn't do nothing!" ...? Even when there's video evidence.

Sigh. Yeah, don't you LOVE those.

[ThanosIsKing]

Mr. C, you're killing your son!

Right. You may not see him for a while. I brought him into this world, I'll take him out. Make another looks just like him.
[/Cos]

"Physical education major with a child psychology minor. Which means that if you ask me a question about a child's behavior I will tell you to tell the child to take a lap."

[depechemodefan]

Like those mothers who tell the reporters/police/everyone "My baby didn't do nothing!" ...? Even when there's video evidence.

The "best" part is when the mom blames the victim.

[Kristev]

As kids, my brother and I wouldn't have dared that. And it's a crying shame the lobster didn't give that kid a good lesson in marine biology.

[Simbacat]

I don't even want to think about what my mom would have done to me if I had pulled that kind of crap when I was a kid.

[XCashier]

And it's a crying shame the lobster didn't give that kid a good lesson in marine biology.

That would've been quite entertaining to watch, wouldn't it?

[Opalin]

Urgh. I do not envy you on that at all, I'd have been pissed just on the knocking and the "they didn't stop when asked by an employee moment." don't suppose you could have said
"Ma'm by disturbing the lobsters your son has critically altered their taste, as such you need to pay for all of them?"

[rapana1]

I don't believe that when I was a child of ten, the thought of doing something like that would have even entered my head. We had fish when I was younger and I knew that tapping the tank bothered them, so the same would go for other things in glass tanks. I might have been a little weirdo, but I was perfectly sensible.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Ugh, reminds me of an SC's child I've complained about before who I encountered working in the pet store. He was nicknamed either "Damien" or "Rosemary's Baby" for obvious reasons. His parents would dump him in the pet store while they went and shopped. One of his fun things to do was to go to the fish section and bang on the fishtanks with both fists. -.- At times, I had fantasies about grabbing him by the collar and holding his head underneath the water of the fishtanks til the inevitable happened. Then the fish could eat him.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

At times, I had fantasies about grabbing him by the collar and holding his head underneath the water of the fishtanks til the inevitable happened. Then the fish could eat him.

I wouldn't wish that on the poor fish . . . they deserve better than that. You wouldn't want them to get indigestion, would you?

My brother and I didn't do crap like that. Worst we ever saw was the time Mom took us both to K-Mart to get our BTS clothes and my brother decided to fall belly first onto the floor inside the entrance and have a full fledged temper tantrum b/c he wanted toys!!!

Needless to say, it took both of us to pull him up out of the floor, drag him back outside and get him back into t the truck and we took him home to Grandma. Mom and I got back in the truck, went back to K-Mart and got what I needed and she took my brother back another time (by himself.)

That was the last time Mom took us both clothes shopping at the same time. Which was a good thing too b/c it was quite embarrassing to watch a then 7 year old throwing a toddler-style tantrum in public.

[dalesys]

Then the fish could eat him.

What's in that tank?

We've got a special on Pukin' Piranhas.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

What's in that tank?

We've got a special on Pukin' Piranhas.

My laptop doesn't care for Shiraz, thankyouverymuch.

One of my g/f's was the single mom of 2 rambunctious boys (both are grown now and the oldest one is now a Dad.)

When either of her boys misbehaved, she'd not only make them stand on a wall with one leg extended (foot touching the wall) she'd have them recite stanzas.

She didn't believe in Time Out, and she was raised in an abusive home (her Mom would beat her with electrical cords or whatever was handy) and she didn't want to do that to her kids. So using her creative mind (she writes in her spare time, or did years ago) she came up with that form of discipline and it worked pretty well for her.

And to the best of my knowledge, neither of her sons has ever been in trouble with the law either.

[Kitten in the box]

I would have said those lobsters pinch and if they pinch it's YOUR fault! Now leave my lobsters ALONE!!

I've had parents throw me a smoldering glance that would have gotten them locked up for murder if looks could kill for me saying outloud we are NOT babysitters!! They need CONTROL

[Mr. Anubite]

If they're not, it would be Lobster Highlander:

In the end, there can be only one!

I would pay to see that movie!