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I was at the laundromat this morning washing all of our winter bedding and curtains. This was my first mistake as I should have probably just used my washer and dryer but these are thick heavy quilts and I just wanted to get them done and put on the beds. I took Emilio with me and there were kids running around like madmen all over the laundromat. No one was watching them, they were being loud and obnoxious, and they kept running into people. That really p*sses me off. Like how can you be so oblivious to your kids behaving like animals in a public place. So anyway I tried to ignore it as best I could until I was walking back in from the car and I held the door open and as I was walking through this 6 year old pushes past me and knocked me into the door I was heated. I told him that was rude and he needs to be careful. He apologized so I just let it go. Then as we were about to leave Emilio was walking behind me and the kids bumped into him and he bumped his head on the corner of a counter, like right between his eyes. My poor baby and the kids just stood there and laughed. Who laughs at a 4 year old crying??? And another inch and that sharp corner would have been in his eye!! At that point I had enough and I found the punks parents and told them in not so nice terms that they just hurt my son and she needs to be watching her kids.
I am totally the type of person that has no problem telling a parent when their kids are acting up. I know that sometimes its not my business but if I get pushed into a door and my son now has a big red bump on his head, the mama bear is coming out.
I raise Emilio to know his place, and acting like a maniac in public is not a child's place.
OK, rant over.
O....emmm...geeee. I would be furious! I am the type of person too that would tell their mom, like HEY LADY! Your kids are whack! I cannot stand children that have no manners, even worse, I cannot stand the parents that just stand there and allow that kind of behavior to happen.
Poor Emilio. IM so sorry, but I am so glad it was nothing too serious like IN his eye. Ouch.
And those kids laughing at him...what does THAT say about those parents?!
I hate when people don't watch or discipline their kids!! I'm sorry you were pushed and Emilio was hurt!! Glad you said something not sure if I would have the balls to say something!!
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Im glad you said something. I wish more people would say something to these kind of parents maybe they will get the hint. Hope your DS feels better.
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That stuff makes me so mad!! I see all kinds of parenting styles in my violin studio, and who am I to judge, but the ones that get me mad are the parents who are either oblivious to or simply don't care that their kids are being totally disrespectful. One family DH and I had a while back would take one of their 3 kids into the lesson with DH (the parent is required to be in the lesson) and the other 2 kids, who were 2 and 6 years old, would be left unsupervised in our house. They would terrorize our pets, break our stuff, play with toys and then leave them strewn all over the house and then just leave! I finally got through to them that they had to have all the kids with them, but I was appalled at their behavior. And I hold the parents fully responsible.
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Kids are always going to act up, especially in boring places, and you cant really blame the kids. they only know what they have been taught. its the parents who just sit back and think its perfectly fine for their children to run everywhere and that everyone should work around them, especially where there is potential for the kids to get hurt, it drives me crazy!!!!
Poor Emillio! I'm glad you said something. Too many parents just let their kids do what they please. Then people wonder why society is the way it is. There's NO discipline! I'm a firm believe in there being a difference between a spanking and abuse. If one of those kids had been mine, they would have gotten a swift spanking on the spot!
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I agree Crystal I do not see spanking as a form of abuse and if Emilio were behaving that way he would have gotten spanked! I know the laundromat is not the most interesting place for kids, but I think if a parent knows that then they should have the kids bring stuff to entertain them. E had his MobiGo video game and some books.
I just don't agree with some people's parenting and I tried to let it go but its like come on. Have a little respect for the people around you. Geesh!
Emilio is feeling better but poor kid looks like he has a uni-brow now as there is a line right between his eyebrows. He thinks its funny now lol.
Im glad your DS is alright. It is so stupid that people cant be bothered to watch,thier own child!
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and more reasons why I despise the majority of the population....
More people need to actually be GASP PARENTS to their kids and stop worrying if your kids "like" you... a friend of mine, who has teenage girls, says she knows she is doing the right thing for her kids every time her 13 year old daughter tells her she hates her and that she is ruining her life. Kids need structure and discipline and while I am not advocating locking them away for minor infractions but they do need to be taught what is ok behavior and what it not ok especially when they're in public! Like you said thank God he didnt get hit in the eye by the table corner! But dear Lord it was too close for those parents to sit on their rears and be lazy.
Like you said bring something to entertain them at boring places! When we used to need to use a laundromat Amber was 5 and I would bring her coloring books and crayons with a snack and guess what the entire time we would be there she was perfectly content and quite without terrorizing the other people!
You have every right to feel upset, I feel you 100%. I can not stand out of control kids, but I become more upset at the parents than kids, because it's the parents job to discipline them, some parents seem to not care or have no control.
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I was heated. I told him that was rude and he needs to be careful. He apologized so I just let it go. Then as we were about to leave Emilio was walking behind me and the kids bumped into him and he bumped his head on the corner of a counter, like right between his eyes. My poor baby 
and the kids just stood there and laughed. Who laughs at a 4 year old crying??? And another inch and that sharp corner would have been in his eye!! At that point I had enough and I found the punks parents and told them in not so nice terms that they just hurt my son and she needs to be watching her kids.
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