Quote From: kat200Madeline and David might want to take a glance at Cops and Jerry Springer because Isabella will more than likely be appearing on them in the future if they don't start disciplining. Parenting starts from birth--you are two years behind! In the meantime, please don't set foot in my classy hometown of Atlanta where we know etiquette.
There is no excuse for bringing kids under the age of about 5-6 to nicer restaurants, theater, graduations, upscale weddings, etc. The paper actually ran a column about a woman who was kicked out of a restaurant by the manager due to her child shrieking. There should be more people like him and more places need rules banning kids under 5. A few weeks ago, I witnessed a little girl being allowed to run around and crawl on the restaurant floor! She also came up to our table often and the parents pretty much ignored her even after I gave them the "Look." There is such a concept called RESPECT. Parents have no right to impose their shrieking children on others and a disability is no excuse. Your kids are still an embarassment to society and need discipline. How else are they going to function in the real world if they are still acting up with the so-called ADD excuse at 20?!
Also, for those of you who have boys, how are you going to feel when you receive a call from the parents of future girlfriends telling you that your son has horrible manners and etiquette? That's something to think about if you want them to find a decent spouse.
Wake up, we don't think it's cute and we are sick of it! To quote Gone With the Wind, my reponse to all of these excuses we hear from parents today: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
I'll be perfectly honest, I cannot stand children and I never want to have them. HOWEVER, some people's children are perfectly well behaved and those children don't really bother me. I'll have you know that my parents were taking me to very expensive restaurants when I was 9 months old, and movie theaters by the age of 2 and people constantly approached my mother to commend what a "well behaved baby" I was. And I know a few other children that are perfectly well behaved in public too. Upbringing is the key.
Conversely, I know plenty of spoiled little brats that I'd take it upon myself to smack if it weren't so frowned upon (I'm sorry to say that one of them is my own Godson). That again falls on the parents. I agree that it isn't "cute" just because they're knee-high to a snowman, and I don't believe everyone else should have to look out for people's children because they're too preoccupied to watch them theirselves, but that doesn't mean you should get pissed off at every parent and child in America. There ARE still responsible parents out there.
Furthermore, I'd like to point out that your comment on mental illness is completely ignorant. I've suffered from serious eating disorders and major depression for almost exactly 50% of my life (in about 2 months it'll be dead on 10 years -I'll be 20 in 1 month) and I'm sure everybody would agree that those are mental illnesses. Still, I'm a functioning member of society staying on the Dean's List at my University, working almost full-time to put myself through school, raising my younger sister on my own, financially supporting a show horse, volunteering for several Democratic campaigns, and I'm a 4-H leader. So I take it very PERSONALLY when you belittle those with mental illness. I know people who are 20+ with ADD who are perfectly normal aside from the fact that they have a little more trouble absorbing information. Mental illness isn't fun. It's not something that people aspire to. And it's beyond an individual's control. You really shouldn't speak about topics you know nothing about. Appearantly people don't posess a lot of social graces in perfect Atlanta now, do they?
