Why is this coming up? For some reason, I have felt surrounded by screaming brats this weekend. Thats right, "brats" not the valid screamers! The last straw though; I was just in Target and this kid who was probably 5 or 6 was screaming so loud that you would have thought his legs were being sawed off. Much to my despair, I wound up in the same aisle with the kid and his mom. He was screaming because he wanted a candy bar and his mom was on her G.D. cell phone! As it turns out, we were on the same shopping path, even though I tried to change mine multiple times. The kid screamed the entire time and of course, the mom was on her cell phone the entire time talking about some party and this "jerk on facebook"! After hearing this for the entire 45 minutes I was in Target, they ended up in the same line as me (lucky me!) and what did the mom finally do? She gave in, told the person on the phone to hold on, and yelled at her son to "just go get the damn candy bar!" Awesome. I wonder why he screams....because it works you idiot!!! Pavlovian parenting at its best.
5 comments:
So frickin' awesome. I too hate screaming kids! ARG!
That's right. It's not the kid's fault, it's the mom for her bad parenting. No argument here!
I hate that too. I try to shop during non-peak times to avoid that, but it's pretty much always unavoidable. That is terrible that her mom was on the phone the whole time! Ridiculous. I wish people had to like apply to be parents or something. SOme people just should not have kids.
ahh I totally just posted on something similar then I read this! I didn't want people to think I was a horrible person, but SO true, the parents should be slapped!
Ugh, thats sad. Not sad that you think kids are brats, sad that people parent that way. I wondered why it was such a hard process to adopt our greyhound and yet any fool can create another human. Crazy.
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