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debbye on Jun 12, 2007

& their parents think they are all saints!

i used to drive a school bus - nuff said! =)

gswd on Jun 12, 2007

Oh but parents are not any better. I used to work at Disney. Just try to tell a parent that there little love child is not tall enough to ride a ride. Go ahead, try. They will come back after buying them cowboy boots. Then come back again after stuffing napkins into the cowboy boots.

They will even pick the kid up by the armpits at bonk their poor little soft heads into the sign (without their feet touching the ground) to try to prove that they are tall enough.

bcarneiro on Jun 12, 2007

I've had a dance academy and one day I decided to start classes for children. It was really difficult. I know some people love to work with children but I know not everyone can actually do it.

They would just do what they wanted to do. Disrespecting the teacher I had in charge. At one time, there were two teacher for 4 children.

We had to cancel them a month later.

MiCCAS on Jun 12, 2007

I'm a kid.. well, teenager but oh well.. I can assure you whilst I'm not "mean", a lot of the kids in my class are!! (gotta feel sorry for the teachers)

sloan on Jun 12, 2007

but every once and a while there will be a super polite and nice kid. It boggles ones mind the differences.

JBVisions on Jun 13, 2007

It's often not the kids that are the problem, it's the parents who let them get away with murder.

I was in a supermarket and there was a woman going round with a child in a push chair. The child wanted everything and kept grabbing stuff off shelves and she'd just take it away and put it back, not saying a word and the child screamed, and screamed and screamed. It was one of those high pitched, ear piercing screams and it went on and on.

You could see everyone in the shop was being driven mad and the mother did nothing. Eventually I'd had enough. Pointed stares from all the other shoppers were having no effect, comments were having no effect and I flipped.

So I walked over, squatted down in front of the pushchair, fixed the child with a steely gaze, and then screamed as loud and as high as I could till I ran out of breath.

Result?

One stunned silent child, one mother who hurriedly finished her shopping and left the store and a standing ovation when I got to the checkouts. :-)

illutic on Jun 13, 2007

@JBVisions: that reminds me somewhat of a commercial we have here. Definetely the best solution to deal with such a situation, at least, that's my opinion :-)

I used to work at a small theme-park in the area, and like gswd says, the parents/teachers aren't any better.
Every year we would have several schools in the park and the kids wouldn't listen, because the teachers (or parents.. dunno actually) that were there just did everything wrong themselves (jumping out when the ride ain't over yet, that sort of stuff) and ofcourse the kids would copy that.
The teachers also look really funny at you when you say they shouldn't do that..

But I must say I sometimes still miss the arguments I had with teachers/parents/grandparents and even the children themselves, because I know I was right everytime :-) Ofcourse they (almost) all threatened to complain about me to my boss, but when I asked he said no-one came (guess they all knew I was right too ;-) ).

zelda013 on Jun 13, 2007

JBVisions : i'm giving you a standing ovation right now. if i were brave enough i would LOVE to do that !! screaming kids drive me crazy (in shops, in the métro, in the damn courtyard of my building when i'm trying to get some work done and the noise is making my ears bleed... sometimes i fantasize about getting a big bucket of cold water and pouring it out the window [evil laugh while rubbing hands together]). i always want to smack their parents and tell them to do their damn jobs... i don't understand why people have children at all, if they're not going to look after them. sheesh.

that said, i used to be a teacher at a circus school for little kids : some of them were completely insane and you had to spend your time running after them, *but* there were also some who were really adorable, really happy to be there and attentive and would do their best to learn what we were teaching them, and that was really gratifying ; i always got really attached to those ones and felt so proud when they learned something new.

but i have to say that my tolerance for children who behave badly in public while parents do nothing has reached sub-zero levels over the years (makes me want to rant too !). so i sympathize completely with Dmonick and that's a job i don't envy you !!

JBVisions on Jun 13, 2007

It wasn't bravery. I was losing my hearing and my sanity.

crunchyfroggie on Jun 13, 2007

LOL, awesome story JBVisions.

zelda013 on Jun 13, 2007

desperate times call for desperate measures...

austingirl on Jun 14, 2007

I understand. (I have 2 grown children.) I cannot stand screaming children who behave badly in public. Just a small heads up on parents who don't do anything...when my kids were in school, at the beginning of each year the school (a public school) would send home a letter asking for permission to administer corporal punishment upon my children. I never gave permission because if I were to administer corporal punishment upon my own children (especially in public) I could be arrested for child abuse. Why is it appropriate for a school to spank my children, but I can be arrested for it? Maybe parents who don't do anything just figure that it is better not to (or at least not in public).

Wile on Jun 14, 2007

I think it's a general behaviour of parents. If parents never say anything to children, then children should think they can bahave this way, without figuring out it's right or wrong. A baby can distinguish right and wrong depending on its parents reaction to his acts.

When my daughter acts badly (never too badly in fact) then I first tell her what she did wrong and why this is no acceptable. If she doesn't understand (or don't want to) I shout or punish (I never spank) but in a reasonnable way, depending on the 'fault'.

If this is done each time, then she understand how to behave and no major problem occurs.

I decided not to spank because if I did it, then this should be telling to her : ok, if you can manage to make a people undestand, then you can heart him ... wrong way ... I prefer show her patience is the best way.

But all that is an each-day work. shouting or punishing once a month or a year just to mark the moment is not a good way ...

ehooton on Jun 14, 2007

If someone came up and screamed in my kids' faces I would be so embarrassed! And then I would be laughing inside at how smart the person was. I have actually done that to my daughter to show her how annoying she was being. It works. Mostly though it's like everyone says. You have to show them constantly what is right and wrong behavior. If my kids scream in a store and won't stop, they are taken outside immediately (within 5 minutes of starting). I'm fortunate that usually my husband and I shop together so one of us can finish shopping and the other can deal with the child.

tamashii on Jun 14, 2007

PVC pipe

It’s just good parenting.

Wile on Jun 14, 2007

you're right tamashii

Dmonick1 on Jun 27, 2007

GO TAMASHII!, also nice job JBvisions

davethegr8 on Jun 27, 2007

@tamashii -

there's usually pvc inside the foam of the sword. You'd just need to take the padding off.