Your son was breaking all the cookies on the counter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the employees weren't concerned, why were you OP?

Maybe the employees knew the cookies were stale would be thrown out soon? Maybe they didn't care?

You do realize that Starbucks has plenty of other cookies in stock to replace the smashed ones, right? Its not as if they are some rare product never to be replaced or that they stock a 100 of them out at one time...

I know, seriously. It's not like starbucks is some struggling local startup kind of place. I actually used to work at starbucks, and the volume of food items that we threw out every evening was astounding. There is lots and lots and lots of cushion there.

Neither of you get it. It is about allowing your child to crumble the cookies, not about Starbucks. It would be the same if the child was poking holes in milk bags at the grocery store. It doesn't make it acceptable because the store has more milk bags stored in the back. Is it okay for a child to damage cars at a car dealership because there are lots of other cars on the lot and the dealership can order more? The issue is parents allowing their child to damage property that they haven't bought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents have an obligation to the rest of the public to teach their children to behave, special needs or not. Breaking up the cookies rendered them unsalable and money was lost by the store. Perhaps they should put up a sign that says "if you or your child breaks cookies, you will have to buy them." Similar to the one in gift shops: "Love to look at, delightful to hold, drop and break it and then its sold."

I totally agree with this with an exception - grocery store check out lines. The stores put all that candy at kid level and while I try to make sure my kids keep their hands down, I'm not buying any candy they handle. The stores should know better than to put that there. Yeah, there may be one candy free check out line but I'm going to whatever line is shortest.

All stores have candy free lanes and there is also self-checkout. More importantly, however, is that you, as a parent, should teach your children not to grab the candy. Better still, don't take them grocery shopping with you.

[Anonymous]

It will not happen to me
I do not go to starbucks and do not eat cookies

I know a kindergarten teacher who knew a kid whose parents were getting divoced and this boy could not handle the thought of his parents living in different places so he would break creaons all day

Either way, do not be too quick to judge because your kid will end up doing something strange sometime in their lives

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will not happen to me
I do not go to starbucks and do not eat cookies

I know a kindergarten teacher who knew a kid whose parents were getting divoced and this boy could not handle the thought of his parents living in different places so he would break creaons all day

Either way, do not be too quick to judge because your kid will end up doing something strange sometime in their lives

OP here.

and if for any reason I become blind to my child's missbehavior I do hope a sane soul would call me out on that.

This is not acceptable. They start damaging cookies, than shoplifting and we known where this will end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will not happen to me
I do not go to starbucks and do not eat cookies

I know a kindergarten teacher who knew a kid whose parents were getting divoced and this boy could not handle the thought of his parents living in different places so he would break creaons all day

Either way, do not be too quick to judge because your kid will end up doing something strange sometime in their lives

It isn't about what your kid does, it is about how you as a parents react / respond to what your kid does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the employees weren't concerned, why were you OP?

Maybe the employees knew the cookies were stale would be thrown out soon? Maybe they didn't care?

You do realize that Starbucks has plenty of other cookies in stock to replace the smashed ones, right? Its not as if they are some rare product never to be replaced or that they stock a 100 of them out at one time...

This dialogue is clearly WAY over your head. I certainly hope you have not, nor are planning on splitting your DNA because you sure are dense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will not happen to me
I do not go to starbucks and do not eat cookies

I know a kindergarten teacher who knew a kid whose parents were getting divoced and this boy could not handle the thought of his parents living in different places so he would break creaons all day

Either way, do not be too quick to judge because your kid will end up doing something strange sometime in their lives

OP here.

and if for any reason I become blind to my child's missbehavior I do hope a sane soul would call me out on that.

This is not acceptable. They start damaging cookies, than shoplifting and we known where this will end.

OP, you don't really have such an inflated sense of self-importance that you think your actions saved this child from a life of crime, do you?

If this is real, I feel sorry for your husband.

[Anonymous]

how was the kid able to get his hands on the cookies? Were they display items?
It is the job of the store to lock up all food stuffs and give them only after someon has paid for them
maybe they were 3 days old just for show

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Either way, do not be too quick to judge because your kid will end up doing something strange sometime in their lives

OP here.

and if for any reason I become blind to my child's missbehavior I do hope a sane soul would call me out on that.

This is not acceptable. They start damaging cookies, than shoplifting and we known where this will end.
how old is your child?
Sounds like you are the parent of a criminal delinguent whose life of crime and shiplifting started by damaging cookies!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how was the kid able to get his hands on the cookies? Were they display items?
It is the job of the store to lock up all food stuffs and give them only after someon has paid for them
maybe they were 3 days old just for show

......Yet another poster with limited intellect. The stupidity of people on this thread is truly astonishing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents have an obligation to the rest of the public to teach their children to behave, special needs or not. Breaking up the cookies rendered them unsalable and money was lost by the store. Perhaps they should put up a sign that says "if you or your child breaks cookies, you will have to buy them." Similar to the one in gift shops: "Love to look at, delightful to hold, drop and break it and then its sold."

Exactly. If you allow your child to behave like this in public - or excuse those who do - then don't bitch when even more establishments being to adopt "no kids" policies. This kind of thing is exactly part of the reason why it's getting harder for us with well-behaved children to go out with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will not happen to me
I do not go to starbucks and do not eat cookies

I know a kindergarten teacher who knew a kid whose parents were getting divoced and this boy could not handle the thought of his parents living in different places so he would break creaons all day

Either way, do not be too quick to judge because your kid will end up doing something strange sometime in their lives

It isn't about what your kid does, it is about how you as a parents react / respond to what your kid does.

Thank you for being a poster who gets it! I really don't understand why some posters here don't understand the concept of consideration for others and respect for the property of others, even cookies. It's not that a child won't ever misbehave but that parents need to nurture, guide, correct, and set an example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP should have considered a career in law enforcement. She would have made a great meter reader!

[Anonymous]

M.Y.O.B.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the child was special needs and being "better than normal".

Then he should not be taken out in public, ever. Being special needs is not a license to destroy other people's property.

Let me guess, you are the parent of normal kids?