Crying kids in target

[Wheezer]

I'm NOT condoning what he did

hell, I am. I am glad to see someone has the balls to call a spade a spade.

shake your buddy's hand for me.

 

[Kwaipie]

The bottom line here is, you wouldn't have to worry about "dad" rearranging your face, if "dad" had been there, the kid wouldn't have been screaming for 3 minutes. Simple.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: mugs
He got the kid to shut up
He did not harm the kid
What is everyone getting their panties in a wad about?

Mostly because it's a percieved threat. If I had a kid and someone were to get down and SCREAM profanity in my child's face, regardless of the circumstance, I, and obviously many others, would have huge issue with that.

 

[Vonkhan]

Originally posted by: Wheezer

I'm NOT condoning what he did

hell, I am. I am glad to see someone has the balls to call a spade a spade.

shake your buddy's hand for me.

buy him a :beer: from me

 

[ViviTheMage]

:thumbsup:

not even going to read what everyone else said, because I hate kids that do that and the parents that let them.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I wonder if he would have did the same thing if it was a retarded kid in a wheelchair. The two have about the same mindset...what would the difference be?

I bet there'd be a difference. Any understanding of a retarded child would show you that they may have the mindset of a younger child, but there's still parts lacking. I've dealt with younger children before and my younger brother is mentally retarded... trust me, he's worse.

Now like I mentioned, don't get me wrong, it may've been a bit over the top, but was an action necessary? I'd say so. Just because you're a parent does not make you an infallible person, and sometimes they need someone else to keep 'em on the path or at least direct them toward the path as they're very... very far off .

sure there are some rotten parents. i have ran into many myself.

BUT even the best parent is going to have a child that occasionaly has a tantrum. it happens. Any person here who says they have a 2-5 yr old and they never have tantrums in public is a lieing sack of shit.

sometimes talking to my daughter gets her to calm down. IF my wife is with me i take her to the van. IF i am by myself and nothing else is working i ignore it. NOT much else i can do.

I get what i came to the store for and leave.

All I know is that whenever my brothers or I would have a tantrum like that in a public place my mother or father would remove us as quickly as possible and give us something to really cry about. I get much more annoyed by behavior like that from a child when the parent takes no action to stop the behavior.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: dyna

Originally posted by: Citrix
whats so hard to understand about that? my 3 kids 14, 11 and 8 NEVER acted up in the store when they were younger.

Did your wife ever take your kids to the store when you weren't around?

of course and i can tell you that my kids have never had a tantrum in public or at home. if we tell them no they accept that and dont throw a fit.

 

[Flyback]

People will always get their backs up because they don't like being told what to do. At some point, however, if they aren't willing to take on their own parental responsibilities and it becomes everyone else' problem then it is okay to take action yourself. I don't think your friend did anything wrong.

 

[MrPickins]

Everybody was in the wrong in that situation: Mom, kid, and your friend.

Oh, and I'm surprised this happened at Target, from what I hear on these forums the shoppers there are soooo much better than everywhere else. :roll:

 

[pontifex]

so mr. expert child raiser jdogg12, how would you handle that situation? or would your kids already be perfect from birth and you wouldn't ever run into that situation?

 

[Ns1]

8/10

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: pontifex
so mr. expert child raiser jdogg12, how would you handle that situation? or would your kids already be perfect from birth and you wouldn't ever run into that situation?

First of all - you've no need to be a prick.

But for me, my daughter, who is 5, knows that she gets little or no slack to act out in public. She HAS acted up like that in stores before. And guess what i do? I put my shopping cart aside and take her outside and let her know that acting that way is NOT ok. If she persists, then she gets a spank.

At home is the place to ignore their tantrums. In public is where I stomp the mutinous behavior out before it gets out of hand. Throwing a tantrum is to be expected - puting, whing, a little shouting comes with the territory. But she does NOT get away with screaming in public for more than 30 seconds.

 

[RedArmy]

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[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: MrPickins
Everybody was in the wrong in that situation: Mom, kid, and your friend.

Oh and, I'm surprised this happened at Target, from what I hear on these forums the shoppers there are soooo much better than everywhere else. :roll:

:thumbsup:

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: RedArmy
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so wrong but funny.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
I am 5'7" 135lbs, and yes you could whip my ass for yelling at you and your child, but you know what, I know quiet a few large people that will do horrible things for just a little bit of money. And while you decide to hit me a few times, you will be sitting in jail while my friends are vandalizing your car and your home. And when you get out of jail, I have a feeling you are going to be in the hospital very very soon.

OH my god. Way to bash everyone's e-penis display, and then 1-up it with your own. What a joke. :roll:

Assault with a concrete dildo?!?

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Originally posted by: pontifex
so mr. expert child raiser jdogg12, how would you handle that situation? or would your kids already be perfect from birth and you wouldn't ever run into that situation?

First of all - you've no need to be a prick.

But for me, my daughter, who is 5, knows that she gets little or no slack to act out in public. She HAS acted up like that in stores before. And guess what i do? I put my shopping cart aside and take her outside and let her know that acting that way is NOT ok. If she persists, then she gets a spank.

At home is the place to ignore their tantrums. In public is where I stomp the mutinous behavior out before it gets out of hand. Throwing a tantrum is to be expected - puting, whing, a little shouting comes with the territory. But she does NOT get away with screaming in public for more than 30 seconds.

he's always a prick, you just get used to it.

 

[T9D]

I wish more people would do this. Good for your buddy. We have to many inconsiderate A-holes out there (and unfortunatly they have kids that turn into them as well). Maybe not the most appropriate way to handle it but certainly something needed to be done and I'm glad he spoke up.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
I am 5'7" 135lbs, and yes you could whip my ass for yelling at you and your child, but you know what, I know quiet a few large people that will do horrible things for just a little bit of money. And while you decide to hit me a few times, you will be sitting in jail while my friends are vandalizing your car and your home. And when you get out of jail, I have a feeling you are going to be in the hospital very very soon.

OH my god. Way to bash everyone's e-penis display, and then 1-up it with your own. What a joke. :roll:

Assault with a concrete dildo?!?

¿Qué

 

[piasabird]

Maybe stores should start asking parents to take their kids and leave if they are disturbing the peace.

 

[zylander]

Originally posted by: rh71
Hopefully that did the mom and kid a favor. She can use that and tell the kid that's what happens when you scream in public places. In all honesty, I wish people are told off more in public.

Agreed.

Good for your friend.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: TheNewbie
That kid was a little spoiled brat who should've been much better educated by his no good mother, and the mother should have been punished.
However, if a stranger would ever approach to me and/or my child in the manner your buddy did, he would be visiting the dentist afterwards for replacing a couple of lost teeth.
To do something like your friend did, is being stupid, to go a head and brag about it in a forum is being a retard (Get a life buddy).

0/10

this is the same thing i was thinking. but, my kids have never done that in any public place. when they were toddlers and tied to act out in restaurants or stores i would drag them outside and either take them home or make them sit in the car until they realized they werent going anyhere until they stopped. never took more than a couple minutes, and by age 4 they didnt do it at all.

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: piasabird
Maybe stores should start asking parents to take their kids and leave if they are disturbing the peace.

ha! Like that will happen in our "I'm always right and you can't tell me what to do" society

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: sadffffff
No one has the right to discipline a child that isn?t theirs, the most the guy should have done is to ask the parent to take care of it to and keep it down. Telling a little kid off is grounds to get your ass kicked. It boiled down to a supposedly grown man picking on a little kid.

Now if I were in the parents position, it wouldn?t have happened in the first place, obviously. But, say, if the kid got out of hand while I was preoccupied:

1) Guy tells my kid "you better shut the f--k up", right there I would have broke his nose. No excuse to threaten a child, especially when you?re "6'3 230lbs". Grow up, guy.

2) Guy tells me to shut my kid up disrespectfully, like he?s got a steak in it, he would get a "mind your own business". Then after he?s gone, my kid would get "you shouldn?t have been doing that <insert appropriate punishment>, and I should have caught it, but he?s not going to tell me how to raise you. It was none of his business."

3) Guy says "please keep it down", I apologize and deal with the kid.

I would have to look downward at your friend, but let?s not get into who could beat up who, that?s an internet pissing match at its best. Your fried would deserve a pop in the face for doing that to a little kid. And if he was dumb enough to escalate it into an all out brawl, he'd be in plenty of trouble too, for doing that to a child. It?s the parent?s duty to stick up for the kid when there?s that much age, height, weight, and strength difference. Especially when it?s none of his business, you?re in a crummy department store, not a fancy restaurant, or somewhere that your experience is going to be ruined. If a little kid sets him off that easily, he's got something wrong with him anyway, maybe he should stay away from children, the weirdo.

I sooo disagree. If your parenting skills are so bankrupt that your kids are causing enough havoc to actually make a random citizen pissed off enough to say something (bearing in mind how much random BS people will put up with in a public situation) then you and your kid deserve whatever ire you bring upon yourselves.

whos to say that random citizen isnt some whacked out idiot that just cant handle society? what if any small noise from kids makes him explode, justified or not (there is no justifiable reason to get in a kids face instead of the parents unless the parent is not there)? that doesnt equate to its all good and fine to get in a kids face and yell swear words at him to me.

 

[Ns1]

4.2* for your friend