Baby takes a tumble

[BookstoreEscapee]

I actually did have a life skills-type class in high school. It was an elective, though. We did budgeting and that kind of thing. Though one of the "life skills" we learned was planning a wedding which I have yet to need... (I was the mother of the bride ) Didn't learn about credit cards and stuff though. 'Course, that was almost 15 years ago...

[karma_gypsy]

How many people use Trig or Advanced Calculus in the real world? Classes should be offered on Budgeting, Basic Hygiene, Housecleaning, Healthy Cooking, Car Maintenance, Social Skills and definitely Parenting. Maybe add an extra semester for these classes, but they should be mandatory, seeing how many folks cannot grasp these basic concepts.

I agree as well. Make them elective classes or somethin (some jobs do use Trig and Calculus and all that, but not all of them). Although my school did offer parenting classes to teenage mothers (as well as daycare).

I remember one time awhile ago, (no major SC's involved in this story, sorry) this guy was carrying his little girl on his shoulders, mommy was with them as well. The toddler couldn't have been much older than 2 or 3 or so, still just a little thing. Anyway, they were just getting ready to cash out and I warned him, "be careful of the neon sign, I wouldn't want her that neon sign" because there is a bright neon sign which would be right at eye level for her. She could have simply reached out and touched the sign (and these are neon signs, the kind with electricity and gases flowing through them). Father kinda just rolled his eyes and said something to the tune of "she won't."

Luckily she didn't, but even still, looking directly at the thing would probably hurt her eyes.

[Kitten in the box]

Meh..reminds me of the time I got screamed at by a bitch for trying to catch her baby from falling out of the cart when it was standing up...if the baby's head hit the ground which is basically cement it would be all over for the baby. Instead the lady yells at me and says not to touch her kid and if she falls she falls...then the woman has the balls to ask me If I could help her out... my response "Do it YOURSELF!!" Said woman got pissed and left. Outside I first thought she was eating her baby's face with how close she was....turns out she was screaming in the baby's face....this woman use to work at our store a couple of years before I got there and she already had the crap beat out of her because she had the balls to shove a customer who told her not to hit her baby in the face...customer after she got shoved by the bitch turned around and beat the living shit out of the woman. (I was not yet employeed to see such a beating but I heared the woman had a broken nose, missing teeth, and a black eye.) Anyhoo after I said do it yourself to the woman she was kind enough to turn a complaint into my manager about me who in turn was kind enough to hang up on the woman. That's the last time I have seen her.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

NO you don't hand your child plastic bags to "play" with, etc.

I met one! First day of work, her daugther was forcing her head into a veggie bag! I took it off of her head and gave it to the mother. SHE PUNCHED A HOLE IN IT AND GAVE IT BACK TO HER KID!

[i4wolves]

Some people should be neutered

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Ok, Now those people are the reason that Child Protective Services exists. Honestly I don't hold much hope for that child reaching adulthood if they didn't even check to see if the child broke anything.

There are no words to describe how goddamn ignorant that is.

M

[AFpheonix]

Just as a 's adocate:

You may not use the Trig, but you definitely use the problem solving skills you picked up while learning the Trig, plus the perserverance to get the homework done, plus the organizational skills you had to develop to pass the class.

Sometimes, it's not the subject matter, it's the other stuff you pick up while learning the subject matter. In my job, I regularly use a fair amount of algebra, so in that case, I use the problem solving skills and the actual content from the class, too.

In my high school, we did do a basic budgeting section on how to get a wedding together and budgeting for after getting married.
Also in Econ we learned basic investing and whatnot. Besides, I see basic parenting classes and other "real world" stuff available at community colleges, and honestly, this is a lot of stuff that should be getting taught at home. Granted, not every parent learned the lessons themselves, but a good amount did, and should be teaching it to their kids, too.

[air914]

Wow that's awesome. We didn't have that stuff - maybe we did on how to plan a wedding or something. I haven't seen those "real world" classes at community colleges either -maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

As for geometry & algebra - eh I can't say I really use them. Some people do and that's great but I think that "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" show demonstrates that we don't use half the stuff we learn in 5th grade.....

BTW, the organizational skills, perseverance, and problem solving - yeah I learned that in ALL of my classes.... didn't need an extra math or science thrown in there... I got all that in English

You did make some good points though.

[Gawdzillers]

They probably did to prove a point.
As many people will go to stupid decisions to do that.

[karma_gypsy]

You may not use the Trig, but you definitely use the problem solving skills you picked up while learning the Trig, plus the perserverance to get the homework done, plus the organizational skills you had to develop to pass the class.

Very True . . . although for me, I never knew what the hell I was doing in Trig in the first place, honestly.

And some of those life skills should be taught at home (I was going to say that in my previous post), but this day and age, a lot of parents simply don't have the time to spend with their children to learn those skills. Some things you can and do learn on your own, others, need to be taught to you. Life skills classes would be an equal opportunity for students who just want to learn to survive on their own after high school (and can't forget the career oriented classes as well - always just as important).

[ForestDragon]

I saw something similar years ago while riding on a bus. Some idiot woman had set her child carrier (containing the child, natch) on a seat - I think it was facing forward - while she went up front to fiddle with the fare. Personally, with my tendency to foresee possible disaster, I would have put it on the floor under the seat until I got back, but anyway...

As she was heading back to the seat, the driver had to hit the brakes suddenly, and well, Newton's law of motion was in operation and the carrier flipped off the seat and landed on the floor upside down. Instant squall of pain from the baby and instant irate mother berating the driver. Excuse me, stupidbitch, didn't it occur to you to take precautions since public transportation doesn't have seat belts as a rule? As far as I could tell, the kid seemed to be more scared than hurt (though I imagine it was pretty bruised), since it seemed to settle down after awhile, unlike its idiot mother, who continued to abuse the driver until I got off the bus a stop or two later.

[Becks]

I am deeply appalled and nearly speechless at the lack of parenting skills shown by these people.

Poor babies. They deserve better.

[blas]

I am actually surprised that those retards didn't scream "WE'LL SUE!" when baby fell.

I told a story on here once about a day at Wal-Mart....a deserted baby stroller with a baby screaming bloody murder, face beet red, and two nasty teenage girls (one pregant, one maybe pregnant, maybe just chubby) flirting up a storm with some skeezy guys. Dunno which girl's baby it was, but the poor thing was ditched several feet away, as to not "interfere" with its mother's social life.

There's adoption for a reason, good fricken God, people.........

[B&NGoddess]

just the other day we had a complaint from one customer saying that there was a toddler left alone in the car. it was standing up in the vehicle and crying. manager C went out to check, got the license plate #, and went back in. he was looking for someone maybe in a hurry, buying some coffee or something, but saw this dude calmly waiting in line to check out. he left, tore out of the parking lot without strapping the child in, and nearly hit a pedestrian in the process. i told C he should've called the cops right away.

wtf.

[Ackee]

Lime jello becons

Those people are so ignorant and so stupid it makes me want to cry in despair.
They wind me up so much that I will come to America and kill them myself if they come along and sue your resturant for not having suitable restraints on the chair, it not being stable enough etc.