Teenager at the Kennedy Center behavior with parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for Op.When you pay $150/ticket, you expect nice mannered customers. That is annoying to sit near the loud, kicking family.

+1. And only use YOUR seat space, not other peoples’

This should be added to the constitution

[Anonymous]

I was at Kennedy Center for opening night of Moulin Rouge over the summer and the young adult woman in front of me brought a whole grocery store pie that she was eating with her bare hands. Her young adult male companion was wearing headphones and watching something on his phone. They thankfully left after intermisison. My companion and I were shocked and still laugh about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the teen was special needs.

This would be my assumption. No matter what she looked like or how she spoke.

OK? Then a child with special needs needs to be seated in between the at least two adults accompanying them. No excuse for that not to happen.

Maybe the adults with the child were also special needs.

[Anonymous]

We sent to a very adult-type symphony there and the adolescent girl next to my DH kneed him the whole time. The father (no mother present) looked straight forward the entire time and did nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously?
Perhaps she has ADHD, or on the spectrum
And she fidgets and moves a lot.
Did she sit in your lap or kick someone in the head?
‘Oh baby careful careful your knee is in my lap’
Big smile, whisper ‘sweetie can you please move your leg?’ Big smile, thank you.
Grace and adult ass manners go a long ways
Instead you drag your tail to DCUM to complain about petty behavior.
Glad your kids are perfect, see where they got from.

Stop being defensive about your kid with SN and start being a parent. As in put the kid with SN in between the two adults that she was sitting with. That way the one saying “oh sweetie” and getting knees put on them is YOU AND GRANDMA, not complete strangers who paid for tickets to a show, not ticket to having to parent YOUR child.

I don’t have a kid with special needs, so what now?
If a knee touching you is such a trigger I don’t know what to tell you.

Let your kid touch me in public and I will know what to tell you. Parent your kids. The end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Invisible disability.

It’s visible when it’s bothering people who bought tickets and don’t want to be touched or kicked.

Parent.
Your.
Kids.

Whether they have SN or not, whether they have “invisible disabilities,” visible disabilities, or are just plain old brats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously?
Perhaps she has ADHD, or on the spectrum
And she fidgets and moves a lot.
Did she sit in your lap or kick someone in the head?
‘Oh baby careful careful your knee is in my lap’
Big smile, whisper ‘sweetie can you please move your leg?’ Big smile, thank you.
Grace and adult ass manners go a long ways
Instead you drag your tail to DCUM to complain about petty behavior.
Glad your kids are perfect, see where they got from.

Stop being defensive about your kid with SN and start being a parent. As in put the kid with SN in between the two adults that she was sitting with. That way the one saying “oh sweetie” and getting knees put on them is YOU AND GRANDMA, not complete strangers who paid for tickets to a show, not ticket to having to parent YOUR child.

I don’t have a kid with special needs, so what now?
If a knee touching you is such a trigger I don’t know what to tell you.

Sorry but sitting cross cross apple sauce like a hippy in your $200 seat while poking and prodding the guests on either side of you is very rude and obnoxious.

Get your legs and knees out of other peoples seat space and not past the arm rails. Come on.

Entitled parents and entitled kid, SN or not.

Got it the sensory shows if your kid needs three seats to do yoga in a fancy theater.

What a jerk you sound like. Get a real problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the teen was special needs.

What are you trying to say?

A person is not "needs". Speak properly about human beings.

Inbox me disability.

Like the ASD II that went down the slide two seconds after my four year and rammed her in the back, injuring her.

All the mom, wandering about, had to say was special needs, special needs. Then monitor and parent your kid MORE, not LESS. Or be more selective with where you go.

DP,

I hope your kid is ok. However, you sound like an a**. Is this your first kid? ANY kid can end up accidentally, on purpose, or whatever whopping, hitting, pushing, biting or kicking another kid.
Happens everyday in the world.
The mom you mentioned is probably doing a lot and was trying to say her kid did not intend to your hurt your previous lamb.
Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree the parent should have done something but….
Everytime I read one of these threads where someone says “my 9 year old is behaving better than that teen!” I wonder if they’ve ever met teens.
8-10 year old is the sweet spot. Old enough to understand the rules, young enough to still care what adults think. Teens are a whole different kettle of fish.

+1000000
They don’t get it nor do they care. They live in their own little perfect work in which their biggest problem is a teen’s knee.

[Anonymous]

Went to Frozen the other night with my first grader and was seated next to a family of two adults and two children -- one who looked roughly the right age to be there, maybe around kindergarten, and one who looked maybe 2 years old. The toddler talked out loud intermittently during the first act, and during the second act mom gave him a tablet to watch Cocomelon (sound off -- a small miracle). I was gobsmacked. It's the most outrageous thing I've ever personally seen at the theater. We were near the edge of the row and an usher could clearly see, but did nothing. I don't blame the kid -- he should never have been brought there. There were two parents there! One should have stayed home with him, or, if they really wanted to give it a try, should have left to sit with him outside the theater once it became clear he had reached his limit. A tablet fully playing Cocomelon videos. I'll never get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We sent to a very adult-type symphony there and the adolescent girl next to my DH kneed him the whole time. The father (no mother present) looked straight forward the entire time and did nothing.

BECAUSE SHE WAS WATCHING THE SHOW AND NOT THE KID’S LEGS.
How dumb are you!
Your husband should have said something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at Kennedy Center for opening night of Moulin Rouge over the summer and the young adult woman in front of me brought a whole grocery store pie that she was eating with her bare hands. Her young adult male companion was wearing headphones and watching something on his phone. They thankfully left after intermisison. My companion and I were shocked and still laugh about it.

Wow. Yeah that’s really something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the teen was special needs.

What are you trying to say?

A person is not "needs". Speak properly about human beings.

Inbox me disability.

Like the ASD II that went down the slide two seconds after my four year and rammed her in the back, injuring her.

All the mom, wandering about, had to say was special needs, special needs. Then monitor and parent your kid MORE, not LESS. Or be more selective with where you go.

DP,

I hope your kid is ok. However, you sound like an a**. Is this your first kid? ANY kid can end up accidentally, on purpose, or whatever whopping, hitting, pushing, biting or kicking another kid.
Happens everyday in the world.
The mom you mentioned is probably doing a lot and was trying to say her kid did not intend to your hurt your previous lamb.
Get over yourself.

Get over yourself.

70 pound boys slamming into 4yos on the water slide with no guardians around does not happen routinely anywhere. Nor does biting, kicking, etc other kids. Never had that at home or at school or preschool or camps. No one is going to normalize that.

And when your kid is injuring others and you are awol citing autism is t the correct response.

The dad was certainly awol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously?
Perhaps she has ADHD, or on the spectrum
And she fidgets and moves a lot.
Did she sit in your lap or kick someone in the head?
‘Oh baby careful careful your knee is in my lap’
Big smile, whisper ‘sweetie can you please move your leg?’ Big smile, thank you.
Grace and adult ass manners go a long ways
Instead you drag your tail to DCUM to complain about petty behavior.
Glad your kids are perfect, see where they got from.

Stop being defensive about your kid with SN and start being a parent. As in put the kid with SN in between the two adults that she was sitting with. That way the one saying “oh sweetie” and getting knees put on them is YOU AND GRANDMA, not complete strangers who paid for tickets to a show, not ticket to having to parent YOUR child.

I don’t have a kid with special needs, so what now?
If a knee touching you is such a trigger I don’t know what to tell you.

Sorry but sitting cross cross apple sauce like a hippy in your $200 seat while poking and prodding the guests on either side of you is very rude and obnoxious.

Get your legs and knees out of other peoples seat space and not past the arm rails. Come on.

Entitled parents and entitled kid, SN or not.

Got it the sensory shows if your kid needs three seats to do yoga in a fancy theater.

What a jerk you sound like. Get a real problem.

Go to the sensory show instead. Good advice.

[Anonymous]

I took my 9 year old to Frozen and the ~5 year old boy sitting next to me kept talking out loud & saying he wanted to go home throughout the entire first act. The mom kind of tried to shush him and kind of tried to engage with his questions to get him to be quiet. I was annoyed, but figured there wasn't that much she could do in the moment without drawing more attention. In the second act, she moved him to between her and the person on the other side of her who turned out to be with her. WTF. You didn't move him between adults he knew to begin with???