Spawn from Hell (Kids will be what you let them be)
I just had to share this bit of insight with everyone out there. Now, working with kids, I know very well that kids will do and say and be exactly what you let them be. And you would think parents would have enough sense to realize this...
...but not all of them do. I saw a prime example of this today. I went with Dad to go grocery shopping (since Mom's foot is still healing from her surgery) and I was in the refrigerated foods isle picking up stuff, when a Mom rolls by me with two kids in her "car basket" (you see, when you go to Publix, you can get fancy fun baskets for your kids to ride in while you shop). Anyway, the little girl in the basket says to her Mom, "Get us a cookie mom!" *insert whiney voice and demanding tone* Mom ignores her, so she repeats this louder, at least twice...probably more than that. So what does Mom do? SHE GIVES IN. "Oh sure," she says, "I'll get you one." I'm already thinking, "Are you kidding me? Your kid says "get it" and you do? No please, no thank you, nada!?!" But it gets better. Mom had to get a few things off that aisle before she could get her demanding brat a cookie...
...so the kid starts up again in about 3 more minutes. Mom reassures the kid she'll get she and her brother a cookie, and rolls the cart off to the next aisle...
...probably to get the stupid cookie.
Now come on. People wonder why kids have no manners, no patience, and think the world revolves around them. Some of this IS human nature...but it's something you teach kids NOT to do by reinforcing more acceptable behavior. And no, I don't have kids, but I teach them every day. And they sure know that what I expect out of them as far as manners is totally different than what is expected at home; this is evidenced in how their whole personality changes when Mom or Dad picks them up.
So please, if you have or are going to have kids, teach them manners, and don't let them behave like little brats! And that goes for me too...
...but not all of them do. I saw a prime example of this today. I went with Dad to go grocery shopping (since Mom's foot is still healing from her surgery) and I was in the refrigerated foods isle picking up stuff, when a Mom rolls by me with two kids in her "car basket" (you see, when you go to Publix, you can get fancy fun baskets for your kids to ride in while you shop). Anyway, the little girl in the basket says to her Mom, "Get us a cookie mom!" *insert whiney voice and demanding tone* Mom ignores her, so she repeats this louder, at least twice...probably more than that. So what does Mom do? SHE GIVES IN. "Oh sure," she says, "I'll get you one." I'm already thinking, "Are you kidding me? Your kid says "get it" and you do? No please, no thank you, nada!?!" But it gets better. Mom had to get a few things off that aisle before she could get her demanding brat a cookie...
...so the kid starts up again in about 3 more minutes. Mom reassures the kid she'll get she and her brother a cookie, and rolls the cart off to the next aisle...
...probably to get the stupid cookie.
Now come on. People wonder why kids have no manners, no patience, and think the world revolves around them. Some of this IS human nature...but it's something you teach kids NOT to do by reinforcing more acceptable behavior. And no, I don't have kids, but I teach them every day. And they sure know that what I expect out of them as far as manners is totally different than what is expected at home; this is evidenced in how their whole personality changes when Mom or Dad picks them up.
So please, if you have or are going to have kids, teach them manners, and don't let them behave like little brats! And that goes for me too...
posted by StargazerGirl at 6:46 PM
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