It’s official. Your kids are out of control people.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree. It's like being held hostage -- parents won't say anything and YOU'RE not allowed to say anything to THEIR precious kids, either.

True, but one of the advantages of being/appearing very old is that you can stop giving a damn and start scaring the bratty kids! What are they gonna do really?

+1 I met someone recently at a planning meeting at my home who had needed to bring her 3 1/2 year old. It was informal, he entertained himself with some activities she brought, it was fine ... until it was time to leave. Kid didn't want to go, mom is negotiating. Kid starts throwing things, mom is telling him that's not how we handle toys. Kid head butts me hard in the legs, mom tells him that's not nice. Kid get evil look, whirls around, grabs a completed lego off my shelf, and throws it to the ground. Mom is still negotiating from 6 feet away. Just as he winds up to do a full sweep of the shelf into my face, I grabbed his hands. Mom finally comes to get him saying how hard it is to control kids, excuse, excuse. I'm just thinking - no it's not, just pick him the f0ck up! You are three times his size and handle horses. Good grief!

Saw him again in a couple different settings after this, and he would randomly walk up to adults and hit them or punch them. She seemed to think this was normal. Yikes.

This is a problem in and of itself. This kind of behavior has become normalized and so parents think it's normal since they see other kids doing it too and they see that the parents don't handle the situation so they don't think they have to either. Just excuse after excuse.

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Op again. I don’t even think it’s generational. I’m 43 with a 5 year old and have peers the same age with same kids. One of their kids was walking around hitting people with his shoe while the dad (who is otherwise a lovely person) just laughed. Another person I know close in age to me was the one allowing her 7 year old to flip out about getting a game.

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Well, the teachers who tried to warn y’all were accused of not understanding boys and just generally hating kids. My consolation has been that I have the out of control child for 10 months and the parents have them for years!

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Anonymous wrote:Op again. I don’t even think it’s generational. I’m 43 with a 5 year old and have peers the same age with same kids. One of their kids was walking around hitting people with his shoe while the dad (who is otherwise a lovely person) just laughed. Another person I know close in age to me was the one allowing her 7 year old to flip out about getting a game.

Believe me, your perfect angel does bratty stuff too

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are all young adults now. I agree with you 100%, OP. The lack of parenting I see is scary. I just don’t understand when this happened.

This happened when it stopped being your children misbehaving. There’s always an excuse when it’s your child - maybe you even found their antics charming, never when it’s someone else’s.

I’m 30 and I don’t buy this from older parents... When I was a kid I remember kids doing all sorts of insane sh*t and their parents just shrugging “boys will be boys.”

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Anonymous wrote:Glad I was able to raise my kids in an era when it was still okay to snatch a brat up and threaten to beat the shit out of them if they didn't sit down.

Condolences to all the parents who would be shamed and branded social outcasts for doing such a thing nowadays.

I somehow raised obedient, polite, and happy kids with violence and threats.

I raised obedient, polite and happy kids with never a threat of violence!

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I call BS on this and other “Kids these days...” rants, OP’s handful of anecdotes notwithstanding. But good on you for judging other parents and, indeed, children, about whom you know nothing!

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Anonymous wrote:I call BS on this and other “Kids these days...” rants, OP’s handful of anecdotes notwithstanding. But good on you for judging other parents and, indeed, children, about whom you know nothing!

What could possibly excuse this behavior. And don’t say SN. The majority of children do not have SN.

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Huge eye roll OP. A kid threw Duplos and it's the end of civilization as we know it? Kids are kids, parent your own and stop generalizing catastrophe simply because someone else's kids made you cranky.

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I hear you OP! Children of today are terrible. Not like our generation! Socrates has been saying this forever:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.”

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you OP! Children of today are terrible. Not like our generation! Socrates has been saying this forever:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.”

Last month, another poster debunked that Socrates said this.

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Anonymous wrote:Op again. I don’t even think it’s generational. I’m 43 with a 5 year old and have peers the same age with same kids. One of their kids was walking around hitting people with his shoe while the dad (who is otherwise a lovely person) just laughed. Another person I know close in age to me was the one allowing her 7 year old to flip out about getting a game.

This is what truly bugs me. Ok, your kid is out of control and you don’t seem to be able to fix it- don’t laugh!! It’s not funny!

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Anonymous wrote:Totally agree. It's like being held hostage -- parents won't say anything and YOU'RE not allowed to say anything to THEIR precious kids, either.

Oh, I would and do! Your kid kicks me and my knee jerk reaction is to kick back. I have asked someone to leave my house because her children were so badly behaved.

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Anonymous wrote:I call BS on this and other “Kids these days...” rants, OP’s handful of anecdotes notwithstanding. But good on you for judging other parents and, indeed, children, about whom you know nothing!

NP. I do not give a rat's behind if your child is DN. I f they are disruptibr and out of control, keep them at home!

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It's not the kids that are out of control. It's the parents that are out of control or don't even have control. I actually feel badly for these kids because they have bad parents.