Ah, those wonderful, no-class folks, and their kids.

I've come across two small kids that were holy terrors.
One, just plain evil
couldn't be allowed around other childern
started fires
tried to smother babies

the other, was our next door neighbor's kid
around 5 yrs of age
we'd be having a street chat with them and other neighbors
here he'd come, kick me in my ankles
parents did nothing
about the fourth time he did this, I dodged the kick and kinda grabbed him....like a hug
...and secretly pinched the crap outa his side
he started screaming and squirming
kept pinching
I wouldn't let go
I don't know what kinda ailment he had
but that pinch cured him of kicking
or being around me at all
it only took two pinches
 
About a million years ago, I was an enlisted guy in the US Navy. A Lt. Commander asked me to baby sit his kid. They had trouble getting sitters. I was told the kid cried at bed time. He REALLY cried. I had to let him cry himself to sleep. Well, I layed the kid down,- about 2 years old(?), @ 6 PM, for bed. He screamed, and kept on screaming. You can't believe the intensity of sound that came out of that little kid. @ 7 still screaming. @ 8, still screaming. I lost it and ran up to the crib and yelled at him. His screaming drowned me out. @ 9, still screaming. By 10, he fell asleep. No wonder they haven't had a baby sitter in months. Oh, My God, I could not comprehend going through this every nite. Whenever I hear of the shaken baby type cases, I feel for the dads. They lost it. They didn't understand they had to walk away-far away.. This kid wasn't a brat. He had real problems. To cry like that he had to be hurting bad some where.
 
My mom was a "hoot". One time we were flying and this kid, sitting in front of her, started jumping up and down on the seat, turned around, reached out and grabbed her hair, holding on tight. My mom (a strict disciplinarian), simply reached over the seat and grabbed the kid's hair, staring straight into his eyes...holding on tight until the kid let go.

That did it. The rest of the trip was unevently quiet and pleasant.
 
We get noisy screaming kids in public here too but not overly noisy or badly behaved but then my shopping habits are different to what they were in past years and miss them thankfully.

I was in Sainsburys today and there was a child who had a peircing scream as and when but I never saw the child or adults with it as it was coming from another aisle It infuriated me and felt quite murderous at the time but then it stopped thankfully.. so maybe someone stuffed something in it's gob..

There was a TV prog years ago about Tuerettes and the adult victim kept shouting suddenly and unprovoked foul language like "F**K Off! How awful is that!?😨
 
One never knows what goes on behind the scenes, at home, with some families. One time, when I lived in Australia, there were parents grocery shopping with their kids. The kids weren't making a fuss or asking for things, but the parents were physically abusive. It was an awful thing to see. I can't imagine what those children's home life would be like.
 
Liberty said:
My mom was a "hoot". One time we were flying and this kid, sitting in front of her, started jumping up and down on the seat, turned around, reached out and grabbed her hair, holding on tight. My mom (a strict disciplinarian), simply reached over the seat and grabbed the kid's hair, staring straight into his eyes...holding on tight until the kid let go.
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I had this happen to me at the nursing home last Tuesday. Some man grabbed my hair so hard & aggressively I couldn’t even turn around.

My instinct was to punch him ( 1/2 joking ) but I didn’t. I had to wait for an attendant to talk him into letting go.
 
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I do believe that bad behaviour in young children is usually poor parenting or guardianship. Temper tantrums in kids are age old and harking back decades. I recall my eldest Son when he was about three throwing a wobbler at a seaside an amusement park because we wouldnt let him keep going on a certain ride. He stamped his feet waved his arms and went red in the face and screamed.
We had my In laws with us on holiday in a caravan . My Hubby grabbed his hand and we all made it too the caravan and there our Son got a smack on his legs and a good telling off and put to bed. He calmed down and that was that as he realised that Daddy and Mummy and Nanny and Granddad were not push-overs
We had solid ground rules aon behaviour and never vered from this.

Another thing is, is that there is too much leaning towards the ethos in this country of saying that bad behaviour is due to some mental ilnness and the perpetrators gain sympathy and can play on it imo
 
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Gonna correct them..in a mo as Im flitting about on my phone texting a friend abd stabbing away withmy keyboard pen...😂
Nope.not a drop of alcohol has passed my lips tonight..honest.😆
 
toffee said:
I can see judy you never have experienced a bad half hr of screams …..:rolleyes:
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I raised three children and was an in store demonstrator. I heard more than a half hour of screams I also witnessed adults having meltdowns. Yes adults throw tantrums. The only things that bother me about stores are people blocking the aisles and not being able to reach things in those deep upper shelves. I love the people who work in those lunatic asylums.
 
toffee said:
dont get so upset judy -- dont think one minute adults scream -or do they ?
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Hell YES! Some adults can be FAR worse than any kids. The biggest difference is adults drink alcohol, do drugs and THEN get in their car and drive to the stores and bring their brat kids along; who scream and act like their parents cause that’s what they’ve been taught. 🙄

So YES it’s FAR worse.
 

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