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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When it was explained to him that it was NOT ok to uproot small trees, he continued to do it. At some point, my brother picked him up and escorted him to his mother.
As is the nature of small kids at parties, he managed to escape his mother, and his next victims were the dogs.
My sister's dog at the time was still in gun school . . . Trey LOVED the reaction to the shock collar, and distracted my sister, got a hold of the remote and started shocking Holden. He would press down on the button and not let go. To this day I think my sister is prepared to skin that child alive. My brother ended up grabbing the remote to the shock collar and forcibly handed the kid to his mother, who was oblivious to the whole thing.
The crowning moment was when the kid started whacking the windchimes with a stick, annoying everyone, and one of the windchimes whacked him in the face on the upswing.
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Young Jeffrey Dahmer?
A few comments. If you are going to bring your kids to a social event -- you as a parent are STILL responsible for supervising them.
My brother and his wife will sit around oblivious to what the kids are getting into, meanwhile they would rather fight over whose turn it is to change a kid's diaper because it might cut into their good time.
Another annoying thing is when you have to listen to a parent bargain with a kid to stop acting like a little shit. "Pookie, if you quit beating the dog, we'll get ice cream on the way home." - - Fuck the ice cream. You do not reward a child for acting the way em is expected to act. They are rewarded for acting above and beyond expectations and they are punished when they act inappropriately. I want to smack the parent upside the head every time they cave in to a child just to get them to stop acting like a brat. You're reinforcing the bad behavior, idiot! Bad behavior has negative consequences, not rewards!
And SD, I have to agree with Thurgreed. You may find stay-at-home mothers tedious to associate with, but I'm in the camp that I would much rather have one of the parents at home at least until the child is in school, if possible. My wife and I have sacrificed a lot in terms of income/social life/etc. so that the kids will have someone at home with them and so a consistent message is communicated to them.
Unfortunately, the type of behavior illustrated above comes about
precisely because the parents try to delegate too many parental responsibilites to others. Sorry, end of rant.
Edited to ask. Gun school? Is that a Texas thang?
