I know I'm not a parent but...

Dar080808

I stopped at a mexican place last night to get take out.  While I was waiting for my order this couple with 2 boys came in.  I would say the boys were about 2 and 4 years old.  The 2 year old was in a stroller and they wheeled him up to a table.  They start giving their orders and totally ignore the 2 boys.  Meanwhile the 2 year old starts smacking the GLASS salt and pepper shakers together and the 4 year old takes off his snow boots and is walking around in his BARE feet (no socks)!  I wanted to walk over there and take the S and P shakers away from the kid but I held myself back thinking these parents can OBVIOUSLY hear him smacking them together and they will take them away.  But no, they don't even turn around and I hear the mom say put them down once.  They saw the bare feet and said nothing for minutes, they heard the smacking of the shakers and did nothing!  Well you can guess what happened next.  The pepper shaker broke and glass flew everywhere!  It was all over the kids stroller, all over his coat, all over the floor.... The boy cut his hands and the older boy cut his feet by walking on it. 

Now I know I'm not a parent but seriously these people need some help!

Mrs.AngelaA

Ugh!!!  I physically took a child off of a huge snow bank (it was rock solid) two weekends ago so he didn't crack his head open or fall into oncoming traffic on Broadway.

The mom said thanks, I said - you should probably be watching your baby a little more closely.

I have never done that before in my life, but something took over that day!

TinaL99

I would have felt the same way you did!  It's unacceptable for any parent to let their kid run around like crazy when they are out in public.  It's too bad that the kids got hurt, but hopefully the parents learned their lesson the hard way.

Two*True

You should see the looks K gives to misbehaving children!  She seriously just looks at them and they stop all their sh!t.  I wonder if it's going to work like that with our child? lol!

MoxyMissi

I'm surprised today's headline isn't "Parents sue Mexican Restaurant for having unsafe salt and pepper shakers".  What kills me is that the parents who don't keep an eye on their kids are usually the same ones who flip out if someone else (another adult, teacher, etc.) DOES discipline their children. 

Tiffgoddess

ugh.. who lets their baby play with glass shakers?!  And who lets their kid walk barefoot in a dirty restaurant?!?  I used to work with a girl that I had gone to functions with outside of work, and she would let her 3 year old go and would totally not watch her.  We would always have to make sure she wasn't doing something to hurt herself because her mother would just drink and not pay attention to her.  It drove me crazy!

fenwaygirl5

Some parents just drive me nuts b/c they don't watch their children or pay attention to them.  It also drives me nuts when they are talking to other adults and ignore their children and hope other people watch them.  I would always tell parents of children in my class once you come to school and pick up your child you are on duty. I would mention this at orientation.  So many times they would come and their child who had been a saint all day decided it was ok to not listen to the teacher anymore b/c Mom or Dad were there.  The parents would not pay any attention to their child and their kid would try to hang upside down on the bar on the playground I would go over to the child and say very nicely, but loudly so the parent would hear, "Now, you know the rules please don't hang upside down I don't want you to fall." The parent wouldn't say thank you or even bat an eye. 

 

Dar080808

ADD = attention deficit disorder IMO is caused by the lack of attention some kids receive.  If you don't spend time with your kid they will probably act out because of it.  I see it all the time in my classroom. 

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you don't have to have a kid to know when you see bad behavior.  i dont get how someone can just let their kid wander around unsupervised.  especially in this day and age when kids are getting kidnapped left and right

 

i would never let my kid wander around like that.  or behave like a monster.

 

oh and i do think there is a huge difference between kids with ad/hd and kids who have never heard "no" a day in their life.   i think in this case correlation does not equal causation.

MelissaSue81

Oh my gosh.. That is horrid.. I was at Kohl's a few days ago (you know the days when it was like 2 degrees out) and there was a little girl in one of those "carts" there that looks like a stroller.. she was older.. like probably 4 years old.. and she had COMPLETELY bare feet.. How the heck did she get from the car to the store? She was too old to be sitting in a cart anyway.. she should have been walking. 

Dar080808

I wasn't saying that these kids are ADD.  I just know that in my line of work the kids that are diagnosed with ADD tend to be kids that get little to no attention at home and seem to seek attention (positive, negative, anything at all) at school because of it.

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Dar080808:

I wasn't saying that these kids are ADD.  I just know that in my line of work the kids that are diagnosed with ADD tend to be kids that get little to no attention at home and seem to seek attention (positive, negative, anything at all) at school because of it.

do you work with a lot of kids who come from bad situations?  (where most of the kids get little/no attention and that may exacerbate their learning disability/behavior?)

or do you think in general that kids who have ad/hd tend to get little/no attention at home? 

i am just curious.  this topic intrigues me, sorry for a gazillion questions.

Dar080808

kristinhart511:

Dar080808:

I wasn't saying that these kids are ADD.  I just know that in my line of work the kids that are diagnosed with ADD tend to be kids that get little to no attention at home and seem to seek attention (positive, negative, anything at all) at school because of it.

do you work with a lot of kids who come from bad situations?  (where most of the kids get little/no attention and that may exacerbate their learning disability/behavior?)

or do you think in general that kids who have ad/hd tend to get little/no attention at home? 

i am just curious.  this topic intrigues me, sorry for a gazillion questions.

 Yes.  Not all my kids are from that background but I find that most of the kids diagnosed with ADD come from bad situations.  Not ALL kids, but more often than not.  For example, I have this one kid that is diagnosed ADD and he is one of 16 kids.  I doubt he gets much attention at home (I've taught 3 of his siblings before him so I know the family) and I think the kid just needs a little TLC.  I mean it's just my opinion but I think he just craves attention in any way he can get it.