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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, Brat Parents. So far I have seen nothing but rationalizations, taunts, and excuses. The list so far:

1. High IQ either comes with behavior problems or makes them harder to control. Sorry, unless your kid is named Wolfgang and is currently working on a new piece for the harpsichord, it's no excuse. Stop deluding yourself that this is the cost of mental greatness.  [b]Some smart kids are better at manipulating, sneaking, and getting into trouble than their dim counterparts.  Maybe yours aren't so smart, so you don't understand this concept.  Smart kids get bored with their peers and often times among youth boredom leads to mischief.

2. MYOB. Great, if you keep bad behavior out of the way of others, that's fine. But you don't. Your kid is bad to other kids and is a bad influence on them as well.  [/b]  If you have great control of your kids and they are so well disciplined, this shouldn't be a problem for you.  Sorry to break it to you, but all your child's bad behavior isn't the result of mimicking a bratty child.  Your child is a brat, too.

3. You have the things that upset you as a parent, I have the things that upset me as a parent. To each their own. No, this is not about personal preferences. This is about generally agreed bratty behavior.  [b] Generally agreed on by who?  Why do you assume your personal preferences are "generally agreed on" across the board?  You sound like a brat yourself.

4. Picky parent. If you are so picky about other children, you will lose all your friends because of your unrealistic standards. Yeah, right. Fortunately brats are the minority and the standards are not all that tight. Just too tight for you.  [/b] I didn't see anyone making this argument.  I saw posters asking the whining moms why they are friends with people they clearly can't stand.  If your friend's behavior upsets you so much that it causes you to think about it days later and rant to strangers about it, and you fear how it is going to influence your darling child . . . . time to act like a parent and limit access to those dear friends.

5. Parents have been whining about kids for eons. They aren't any different than in the past. Not a chance. Kids absolutely do things today that they did not do decades ago. I can't believe this point even needs to be defended in an age where kids are sexting each other.  [b]LOL . . . what rock did you climb out from?  Yes, cell phones weren't around in the 1980s, but imagine what DCUM's would have thought of "free love" of the 1960s, living in communes, the drug use of the 1970s, sex parties in high school in the 1980s, games like "the lipstick game" and "poker face" in the 1990s and still some today . . . that is just off the top of my head.  Just because cell phones weren't invented years ago doesn't mean kids are suddenly worse today.  Parents have been saying "Kids these days!" for decades.  Every generation thinks the kids of its generation are just awful.  People thought it about you and your generation . . . and look at you!

6. If your parenting is so good, then why are you worried about my brat acting up in front of your kid? Any good parent knows that we need to keep our kids away from bad influences.  [/b]They why don't you?  If a child is a bad influence on your child, limit access to those bad influences.  Then the problem isn't your problem anymore.  See #2 above.  It may require you to actually parent.

I saw maybe one poster who actually said their kids are badly behaved, they really do use consistent and reasonable discipline, but they are still brats and it's a struggle. I can respect that and have sympathy.  [b] LOL, glad you agree with the one person in this discussion who agrees with you.

But for the rest of you, enough with the crap. Owning up to your situation is the first step to changing it. [/quote]

Sorry hon.  If you can't see the validity of a single point, then you are the problem.  You and your sex parties.[/quote]

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