Parents that refuse to properly raise and discipline their children and THEN allow them to do this in public, take them out into public knowing they will do this...
There is a special place in hell reserved for you.
You probably don't have kids or siblings much younger than you. I have two younger sisters, one almost seven years younger than me and another eight years younger, as well as five cousins the oldest of them being seven years old. So I know what little kids can be like. You can't control their every move no matter how well disciplined they may be, every child is different, and you have to keep in mind that they are CHILDREN they're still learning about how to act and they have bad days just like adults, the difference being that they don't handle it quietly like (most) adults do. When I was a very young I was a hell-child (which is why there is so much age difference between my sisters and I) and I was not under-disciplined or radically spoiled. I threw tantrums in stores, I whined about having to go to the store, I wandered off when something caught my eye; I was a handful. My parents got shitty looks and comments like you posted from strangers all the time. But what were they supposed
to do? Beat me to death? They couldn’t discipline me any more than they did because they were already walking that fine line between discipline and out right abuse. Leave me at home? They couldn’t do that because my mother worked days and my father worked nights, and being in their early twenties making next to nothing hiring a sitter or dropping me off a day care was out of the question.
. So they did their best and tried to ignore the jibes of people who didn’t have kids (or happened to get an easier one) and were thankful for the knowing looks and patience from those who knew exactly what they were going through. And as it so happens I turned out to be incredibly tame once I got older. I’m quiet and always polite to other people and I don’t party or do other wild things that most college students do so they couldn’t have done too bad of a job.
I’m not saying that there aren’t over-indulgent parents out there letting their kids do whatever because we all see them from time to time. All I’m saying is that people should realize that dealing with young children in any capacity is difficult and that kids act like little jerks sometimes, it’s part of being a little kid. I think that we all just need to be a little more understanding of this and a little more patient.
Me and my 3 siblings never were, at least not in public. My mother was a caring and sweet woman she taught us respect when we were very little, no need for beatings or anything like that. She just made us understand, children are smarter that we give them credit for.
I have brothers who cry sometimes in the store. It's not because they aren't raised right, it's because they are little boys. People without children, or without little siblings don't get how hard controlling their every move is. Sometimes you can't stop them from throwing a fit. So what if a baby cries in the store, it's not hurting you. The only thing I don't like is when people bring babies into PG-13 rated movies or higher.
There is a special place in hell reserved for you.