What’s wrong with some parents?
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Anonymous
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"Hi boys, I see you like planting flowers! I do too. Did you know that there are places where these flower can grow well and and places where they can't get the food they need to grow? They like to live where worms live. Can you help me find where the worms are? Then we can plant the flowers there."
Teach the children. And while they replant them, gently suggest that they don't move other people's flowers next time. Or yell at them and call their moms lazy drunks. Your village, your choice. |
Anonymous
If a six year old doesn't know the difference between wild flowers and planted flowers, that's because the parents have failed to teach them the difference. Every toddler loves picking flowers. There are zero six year olds on the planet that haven't given their parents many opportunities to teach them. |
Anonymous
I agree. Although I also think that pulling up ANY flower by the roots is unacceptable, unless it's a buttercup or a dandelion. I know someone who got a fairly hefty fine for cutting armloads of wildflowers by the roadside in Virginia. They're protected. I can imagine these root-pullers growing up with a similar sense of entitlement to my acquaintance. |
Anonymous
| Can you pull leaves off trees? Serious question. Because I do this for my son to feel the different textures…maybe ill stop it. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Oh, vomit, Pollyanna. 
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Anonymous
OMG can’t you tell the different between taking one leaf out of thousands from a healthy tree vs uprooting an entire plant and killing it? |
Anonymous
| A lot of our neighbors have beautiful flowers out front, and I have taught my children not to pick them. But on multiple occasions I have looked out my window and observed parents letting their kids and toddlers pick flowers from my neighbor's gardens. Sometimes they walk way up in the yard to do it. Some people are incredibly entitled and selfish. In OP's situation, it sounds like the parents are just lazy. |
Anonymous
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(Mean mom face) “Kids, those flowers aren’t for picking! Leave them alone and go play!”
Less is more. |
Anonymous
| I really think some parents are truly clueless. Like space cadet clueless. My next door neighbors are really nice, but it’s a free for all with their kids. Numerous times I have had to tel their kids to stay out of my garden and stop picking the flowers when they were playing on my front lawn - while their parents were literally standing right to there. I was talking to the dad once, who had his back to the road (and where his kids were playing) and another neighbor had to bolt into the road to move his toddler out of the way of an oncoming car. This shit happens ALL THE TIME with them. It’s like they have no clue. |
Anonymous
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There's a lot of trolling going on on this thread, obviously.
If I were OP, I would have politely alerted the mothers rather than address/yell at the boys directly. It's really not a stranger's place to reprimand a child when the parent is present. |
Anonymous
Not defending the moms, but you have issues… “worthless”??? I’d rather pull flowers from the garden than be you and abuse people |
Anonymous
My friend who allows flower picking have difficult kids. They are always fighting, complaining, crying and whining. I remember mentioning the flower picking and she shrugged. She truly didn’t care. She was probably just glad to have a little peace and her girls weren’t fighting. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+2. Just yell at the brats. |