Just to make a few points. I enjoy kids...they are cute...you know the quiet respectable kind that listen to their parents. However I have a serious problem with out of control, loud, screaming, rude, and inconsiderate children that I seem to come in contact with whenever I venture out.
Long ago April told me about a lovely place she's invented called "Family Island" Its a place. where all those kid loving, wanting to reproduce people and their offspring can go where they will not effect the daily lives of those of us who don't own any loud mouthed rude off spring and wish to avoid them at all costs.
Today while enjoying a lovely Sunday afternoon at the mall with April's brother I got to thinking, why don't parents have more control over their kids. I can not stand the ingorance level of todays parents that continues to increase each day. If you have children it is your duty to teach them manners as well as have control over them in social settings. Allowing children to run around a mall unsupervised is not only irresponsible but it is also extremly annoying to those of us who do not have children yet have to deal with your out of control children during our days off.
I appluad parents who have instilled respect and control over their children. Those children are the quiet ones who stand next to their parents and also say the words excuse me, sorry, and thank you.
After being pushed by a gang of 13 year olds carrying their holister and claires accessories bags as they ran through the mall cackling like a gaggle of mini witches, and feverishly texting the other group of cackling heinias at the other end of the mall, I then had to wait for a six year old who was scared to get on the escalator, who only had one shoe on, dropped her mitten and it was on its way up, and the parent was no where in site I thought I might lose it.
I think that as I grow older I have less and less tollerence or patiience for this type of behavior. I think that malls should dedicate ONE DAY to ADULTS ONLY. where those of us who want to enjoy the day shopping and looking through the overly priced items at all the stores can shop in peace and not be pushed, stopped, or cut in front of by the youth of today with no parental guidence. . . . here "family island" would come in handy
and that is my rant for the day....
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There's a mall in the Denver area that has instituted a curfew of sorts. No unaccompanied minors under the age of 16 after 8pm (think it's 8pm). But alas, no Adult only shopping hours. I recently told this little girl to stop running around the clothes racks, much to the horror of her slightly older brother (he was probably 10 or 11). She ran into the dressing room to find her mom and he sat down on the floor and put his head in his hands after telling me he was trying. Poor little guy. Later the same little girl had gotten away from him again and was stalking me through the store. Sigh...some people's children is now some people's parents...
AMEN SISTER AMEN!!!!
When my brothers and sisters and I were young we would never have thought of acting up in public(at home with each was a different story)...all it took was a look from my parents and we were angels.If I have to listen to one more parent start counting when their kid is misbehaving I think I will lose it. Please people don't inflict your children on the rest of us.
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