What’s wrong with some parents?

[Anonymous]

It pisses me off to no end when I see kids pull plants, flowers, what have you out of the public garden near my house.
I absolutely blame poor parenting and teaching your kids to be disrespectful. So many selfish parents out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"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.

Your utopian suggestion will give those brats s huge laugh as they pull up the flowers and shake the dirt on you or a three year old. Their parents have not taught them to respect anything, not even themselves. Chances are good their parents are drunks. My choice in my village is to get rid of them. Send them back to their trailer parks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They must be the moms who didn’t even blink while their boys threw rocks at ducks the other day. I though about saying something but the moms looked so proud of their boys so it would have been a lost cause. Plus the moms all had matching yeti wine tumblers with vinyl monogram stickers, which I took as a warning to not engage.

People are animals. That’s all you need to know.

[Anonymous]

Annoying, but honestly they shouldn’t be planting flowers on a playground, of course kids will pull them up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with putting flowers in the sandbox?

And why yell at other people's kids? Too coward to approach the moms - in a diplomatic manner if course - and get context (maybe it's permissible in their culture, maybe there's an SN issue) or let them know?

^^ This thinking is exactly why there are so many badly behaved children. I would have told them to stop pulling the flowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was me. My son likes to play. Flowers shcwowers. Go hug a tree.

Stop trolling. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

It wasnt literal silly. I am the parent who lets her kids play snd be a kid. Im not telling you how to parent your kid. More parents should mind their business unless it is directly harming you and yours. What was your kid doing during while tending to others kids?

Can you pull leaves off trees? Serious question. Because I do this for my son to feel the different textures…maybe ill stop it.

Okay, I'll feed the two trolls.

Plants that are growing wild in uncultivated areas (meadows, fields, untended common grounds, woods, etc) are free game. Plants that you are planting and caring for, like in your yard are free game.

Plants (flowers, bushes, landscaping, trees) that are in someone else's yard, in publicly tended areas or in privately landscaped areas are off-limits. If someone else is raising plants or paying someone to landscape or tend to plants, you and your children should not be damaging them. And even though it doesn't seem like taking a leaf or two off of a tree are hurting it, you still should respect that someone else is tending to that tree. You can pull a branch down and your child can feel the leaf and the texture without taking the leaf off.

So teach your children to respect public and private property that does not belong to you, including the plants.

So, for the first troll, if you want to "let your kids play" and pull up plants, keep them at home and let them pull up the plants that you paid for and that you've been taking care of. Don't destroy someone else's landscaping because you don't bother to teach your child proper boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Sorry. You ignore your kid destroying property that doesn’t belong to them, we’ll parent for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Annoying, but honestly they shouldn’t be planting flowers on a playground, of course kids will pull them up.

Weird. We have several kids and they have never pulled a single flower at the park.

Parenting is awesome. More people should try it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Annoying, but honestly they shouldn’t be planting flowers on a playground, of course kids will pull them up.

Weird. We have several kids and they have never pulled a single flower at the park.

Parenting is awesome. More people should try it.

Well said!

[Anonymous]

I’m shocked at how entitled so many people are, and it’s sad they pass it on to the next generation.

Lots of parents thinking little Johnny can do no wrong. Hopefully they make enough to pay for his legal defense when JohnJohn pulls a Brock Turner in 15 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was me. My son likes to play. Flowers shcwowers. Go hug a tree.

Stop trolling. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

It wasnt literal silly. I am the parent who lets her kids play snd be a kid. Im not telling you how to parent your kid. More parents should mind their business unless it is directly harming you and yours. What was your kid doing during while tending to others kids?

Can you pull leaves off trees? Serious question. Because I do this for my son to feel the different textures…maybe ill stop it.

Okay, I'll feed the two trolls.

Plants that are growing wild in uncultivated areas (meadows, fields, untended common grounds, woods, etc) are free game. Plants that you are planting and caring for, like in your yard are free game.

Plants (flowers, bushes, landscaping, trees) that are in someone else's yard, in publicly tended areas or in privately landscaped areas are off-limits. If someone else is raising plants or paying someone to landscape or tend to plants, you and your children should not be damaging them. And even though it doesn't seem like taking a leaf or two off of a tree are hurting it, you still should respect that someone else is tending to that tree. You can pull a branch down and your child can feel the leaf and the texture without taking the leaf off.

So teach your children to respect public and private property that does not belong to you, including the plants.

So, for the first troll, if you want to "let your kids play" and pull up plants, keep them at home and let them pull up the plants that you paid for and that you've been taking care of. Don't destroy someone else's landscaping because you don't bother to teach your child proper boundaries.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was me. My son likes to play. Flowers shcwowers. Go hug a tree.

Stop trolling. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

It wasnt literal silly. I am the parent who lets her kids play snd be a kid. Im not telling you how to parent your kid. More parents should mind their business unless it is directly harming you and yours. What was your kid doing during while tending to others kids?

Can you pull leaves off trees? Serious question. Because I do this for my son to feel the different textures…maybe ill stop it.

Okay, I'll feed the two trolls.

Plants that are growing wild in uncultivated areas (meadows, fields, untended common grounds, woods, etc) are free game. Plants that you are planting and caring for, like in your yard are free game.

Plants (flowers, bushes, landscaping, trees) that are in someone else's yard, in publicly tended areas or in privately landscaped areas are off-limits. If someone else is raising plants or paying someone to landscape or tend to plants, you and your children should not be damaging them. And even though it doesn't seem like taking a leaf or two off of a tree are hurting it, you still should respect that someone else is tending to that tree. You can pull a branch down and your child can feel the leaf and the texture without taking the leaf off.

So teach your children to respect public and private property that does not belong to you, including the plants.

So, for the first troll, if you want to "let your kids play" and pull up plants, keep them at home and let them pull up the plants that you paid for and that you've been taking care of. Don't destroy someone else's landscaping because you don't bother to teach your child proper boundaries.

Well said.

No way. A pack of kids slashing trees in a park is not OK. Killing things needlessly is wrong and that should be taught to children. There is mo need to uproot a plant. Ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was me. My son likes to play. Flowers shcwowers. Go hug a tree.

Stop trolling. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

It wasnt literal silly. I am the parent who lets her kids play snd be a kid. Im not telling you how to parent your kid. More parents should mind their business unless it is directly harming you and yours. What was your kid doing during while tending to others kids?

Can you pull leaves off trees? Serious question. Because I do this for my son to feel the different textures…maybe ill stop it.

Okay, I'll feed the two trolls.

Plants that are growing wild in uncultivated areas (meadows, fields, untended common grounds, woods, etc) are free game. Plants that you are planting and caring for, like in your yard are free game.

Plants (flowers, bushes, landscaping, trees) that are in someone else's yard, in publicly tended areas or in privately landscaped areas are off-limits. If someone else is raising plants or paying someone to landscape or tend to plants, you and your children should not be damaging them. And even though it doesn't seem like taking a leaf or two off of a tree are hurting it, you still should respect that someone else is tending to that tree. You can pull a branch down and your child can feel the leaf and the texture without taking the leaf off.

So teach your children to respect public and private property that does not belong to you, including the plants.

So, for the first troll, if you want to "let your kids play" and pull up plants, keep them at home and let them pull up the plants that you paid for and that you've been taking care of. Don't destroy someone else's landscaping because you don't bother to teach your child proper boundaries.

Well said.

No way. A pack of kids slashing trees in a park is not OK. Killing things needlessly is wrong and that should be taught to children. There is mo need to uproot a plant. Ever.

Who said anything about anyone slashing trees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This is why set backs are important. If your home is on the street flowers will be picked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was me. My son likes to play. Flowers shcwowers. Go hug a tree.

Stop trolling. You’re just embarrassing yourself.

It wasnt literal silly. I am the parent who lets her kids play snd be a kid. Im not telling you how to parent your kid. More parents should mind their business unless it is directly harming you and yours. What was your kid doing during while tending to others kids?

Can you pull leaves off trees? Serious question. Because I do this for my son to feel the different textures…maybe ill stop it.

Okay, I'll feed the two trolls.

Plants that are growing wild in uncultivated areas (meadows, fields, untended common grounds, woods, etc) are free game. Plants that you are planting and caring for, like in your yard are free game.

Plants (flowers, bushes, landscaping, trees) that are in someone else's yard, in publicly tended areas or in privately landscaped areas are off-limits. If someone else is raising plants or paying someone to landscape or tend to plants, you and your children should not be damaging them. And even though it doesn't seem like taking a leaf or two off of a tree are hurting it, you still should respect that someone else is tending to that tree. You can pull a branch down and your child can feel the leaf and the texture without taking the leaf off.

So teach your children to respect public and private property that does not belong to you, including the plants.

So, for the first troll, if you want to "let your kids play" and pull up plants, keep them at home and let them pull up the plants that you paid for and that you've been taking care of. Don't destroy someone else's landscaping because you don't bother to teach your child proper boundaries.

Well said.

I'd add, though, that in many "uncultivated areas," including national parks and forests, picking flowers is not permitted. And I also teach my kid not to pull leaves off of plants because it's not good for the plant. And if that plant belongs to someone else, whether the public or an apartment building or a person, you don't pick it because it's not yours.