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I know I'm not a parent but...
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!
Re: I know I'm not a parent but...
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!
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.
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.
m/c 1/2/08 and 3/12/08
Eve Amelia- Born 2/24/09. 6lb 9.9oz
Natalie Ruth - Born 6/13/11 7lb 6.6oz
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.