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Park Slope parents back ban on ice-cream trucks in Prospect Park to avoid screaming kids
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/slopers_creamy_river_lcaxb1lj4D0SHqo4f2K3GO#ixzz1r0ZN5DzH
They?re all screaming for no ice cream.
Overprotective Park Slope parents have declared war on a treasured rite of spring: an ice cream in the park.
The icy rebuke of the time-honored tradition erupted on the Park Slope Parents online group when one mother described her son?s meltdown in Prospect Park after she put the ixnay on a acksnay.
?Along with the first truly beautiful day of the year, my son and I had our first ruined day at the playground,? the poster named Sarah somberly recounted. ?Two different people came into the actual playground with ice cream/Italian ice push carts. I was able to avoid it for a little while but eventually I left with a crying 4-year-old.?
BRIANNA SONDERS Appreciates snack at park.
BRIANNA SONDERS Appreciates snack at park.
Another angry mother, identified on the site as Dorothy Scanlan, chimed in.
?I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!? the poster wailed. ?I too was at the 9th Street Playground on Monday, and one of the vendors just handed my 4-year-old an ice cream cone. I was furious.?
But not all parents in brownstone Brooklyn?s politically correct bastion are so hot and bothered.
?I think they?re crazy,? laughed Lynette Barenboyn, a stay-at-home mom. ?In Park Slope, everybody has an opinion, and there are a lot of opinions ? especially when it comes to parenting.?
One mom ? who asked to remain anonymous for fear of being ostracized by other parents ? said her friends want an ice-cream ban, but she disagrees.
?People just need to say no,? the mom said while with her son at Prospect Park?s aptly named Harmony Playground. ?I say no to him all the time, and I feel his wrath. But he needs to hear that no.?
The mom, who also pointed out that she doesn?t feed her children kale chips, described the typical Park Slope parent as ?militant.?
Dixie Kissoon, a nanny who also took her charges to Harmony recently, wishes the worked-up moms and dads would just get a life.
?They?re obnoxious,? she said. ?There?s no harm in this.?
But Sarah Schenck says just say no to frozen confections.
Schenck, a mother of two and co-founder of the eco-friendly parentearth.com, said statistics back her up.
?Nobody wants to be a crank, but one in three kids are going to be obese or diabetic by high school,? she said. ?When my kids see other kids get ice cream, they just start begging me. I just don?t think these are the fights we should be having.?
Kenny Sonders, another parent at the playground, said he thinks these are exactly the fights parents should be having. ?It?s part of growing up in Brooklyn.?
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Re: Park Slope parents back ban on ice-cream trucks in Prospect Park to avoid screaming kids
OHMYGAH learn to say no.
Cheese and a biscuit
I needed this laugh.
Mmhmm. I tell my kid no all the time. She gets over it fairly quickly. She knows that if she throws a fit, we're leaving ASAP. No ice cream AND no park? No bueno.
?I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living!? the poster wailed.
I don't have the energy for this.
These two moms can't be serious.
"I shouldn't have to tell my kid 'no' just so someone can have a job"
Your kid is a brat, so you would have another child starve b/c daddy can't make a living? What happens when you drive past a McDonald's?
"I need to police the whole park not let any bad food in to save all the children from being fat"
At least at the park there is a 70% chance the kid will run it off. Ice cream at home is eaten in front of the TV!
I couldn't live in that world.
Same here.
LOL I believe this is called parenting. Every movement he makes can result in an argument. I see it the other way, why should people have to cater to us because my child is unreasonable.
I was so excited to see the Mr. Softee trucks out in Manhattan a couple weeks ago. It means Spring really has arrived.
Word. Although I do have a soft spot for those sort-of-gross-tasting ninja turtle faces with the gumball eyes.
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I can't even. So because you're a permissive heifer who can't say no without feeling like a chode in front of your tyrannical four year old I can't have an ice cream cone now and then?
Shiit, I don't even care about my kids. I WANT ICE CREAM!!!
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Yup. Homeboy can lurk at the park all damn day. It doesn't mean my kid gets to act like a jerk when I tell her no. Life is rough and not getting ice cream from Big Worm isn't the end of the world.
That's where I'd heard this name before. Thanks for the reminder!
Yeah, these parents need to get over it. Seriously.
I'm totally with parents learning how to say no, and this being obnoxious...
but this:
is also completely obnoxious.
I am the 99%.
Yes, that's out of line and I would see what company s/he sells through and contact them to complain about that. But I've never heard of that happening in my life.
I have ne like that, and one that will go on and on and on. If I choose to walk past an ice cream shop then that's my choice, and one I make depending on how the day is going. If the ice cream shop comes right into the playground without warning, that's just *** rude.
wut?
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<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home Dno, my guess it's for free like the windshield washers are free.
they hand the kid an ice cream, then expect the parents to pay up, because in this kind of neighborhood, the expectation is that the parents will pay, not smash the ice cream in the seller's face for doing something as obnoxious as handing a kid an ice cream without asking first.
I am the 99%.
Yeah, they'd be taking a loss from me since I don't carry cash!