Parents, please STOP it! If you’re taking your cranky kid to a doctor’s office for someone else’s appointment (be it your neighbor, spouse, parents, etc); DO NOT just sit on your fat ass and let your kid screams and cries and throwing temper tantrums for the whole frickin’ 40 minutes!
While your spouse/neighbor/parent is being seen by the doctor, take your screaming kid elsewhere. Don’t you have any shame? Other patients are sick too. Somebody with a migraine doesn’t need to listen to your brat crying his lungs out. Other patient who’s being seen for a depression check, doesn’t want to add more depression by listening to your kid screaming.
How could you be so ignorant and just sit there reading PEOPLE magazine and let your brat rolling on the carpet, kicking the chair, and screaming? It’s probably why your kid is misbehaving, because you don’t discipline them. If I were you, I would take him/her to the car. He/she can scream until the face is blue, inside the car, and not bugging everybody else, especially those who don’t feel well.
Same scenarios I’ve seen in a grocery store or restaurant. If your child is tired, hungry, or just plain bratty; maybe you shouldn’t take them to a public places like that. Maybe you should wait until he/she naps or give them some snacks? It’s just mind boggling to see these parents who won’t/don’t do anything while their kids are throwing temper tantrums. Yes, you should not ‘give in’ to them to ‘teach’ them that by doing so he’d get what they want, but do that teaching in your frickin’ home! Or in the car!
I spot a lovely little niche for special tailor-made little straitjackets to get the little bastards in their place and nicely coloured sticky tape to muffle their little mouths.
And probably a nice spanking tool for the parents to actually do something about it?
:D! Someone with a depression might as well find it an enlightening experience: WTF? HOw my life is so much better than the parents of that monster!!!!!!!
I practiced bribery because I so fit into that “shameful” Asian parents stereotype. 😦 Reading your post, I actually admire that parent with such determination to ignore the tantrum. I’d go nuts!
Normally I come prepared with with things like little snacks, but one day the toddler was just so annoying in the check out that I have to give her my lipstick so she’d give me 5 mins of peace.. Some days I’d rather sit through a three hour maths exam rather than go do my groceries with the two kids!!!!! Bad mother alert! ;P
‘ne… seriously, do not admire these people for being able to ignore their kids misbehaving in a doctor’s office. it’s selfish. bribery is okay, i guess. the kids are rewarded for being good? i don’t see anything wrong with that.
go grocery shopping with two little ones is alost impossible; especially if the other one is still in a baby carrier. if you put the carrier in the grocery cart, you won’t have enough room for the stuff you need to buy. if you push the kid in a stroller, then how are you going to push your grocery cart? that’s why, for a while, i always go with hubby or alone (which was lke a luxury). and no, you are not a bad mother.
Where is Mr. Spock with his vulcan nerve pinch when you really need him?
if a vulcan pinch is all the parents need to get up from their lazy butt to take care of the kid; then let’s find mr. spock!
Time out works well for most kids … next time it happens again, maybe you could simply give such misbehaving parents a time out!!
yeah, actually one of my nurses came out and asked the parents, “do you think your son would like to color?” but the mom said, “no, he’s fine.” and she was not even taking her eyes off the magazine. how rude and ignorant.
Hehehe beneran Din itu ortu harus di time out ngadep tembok dgn tangan diangkat ke atas tinggi2!
pake angkat satu kaki gak, san?
lot time not visit niy gw…
bok..kenapa jarang update? busy ya? 😉
sibuk nih, gimana dong…
It’s the parents who need ‘education’. You’d better give them some. (been there, gladly have done that hahaha)
you? lecturing some misbehaving parents? but you look so… nice. mwahuahiuahauhaua :p
Parents in Indonesia is all about ignorance. They practically ignore their children so these children grow up to become spoiled brats.
I’ve encountered so many incidents where I had to glare at these out-of-control brats because their parents don’t know how to discipline them.
Like the time when I was eating at a restaurant and I was sitting in one of those long benches. There was a boy who kept climbing the benches and ran along it, almost hitting me twice. And what did the parents do? Nothing. Just told him to “Be careful”. “Stop that.”, or “Come on, don’t do it”.
The child totally ignored him. What a fucking brat! Even my dog had more manners than him!
wow… the parents actually did pay attention to their kids? that’s a progress. don’t they usually bring an army of baby sitter/nanny and just continuing their chit-chat while the baby sitter’s running around chasing the kid(s)?
If a parents just sitting there not doing anything then that is bad but do you know how utterly frustrating & embarrassing it is for parents when they have no other choice but take their kids to get groceries or if the parent is sick & needs to go to the doctor & their child will not quit screaming? My first daughter was an angel, no fits or anything in public, my second daughter is a different story, she throws fits constantly, even with a clean diaper, full & rested. Should I just no go grocery shopping & let my family starve or stay sick instead of go to the doctor? I can’t always get a sitter & I’m not going to just give my child whatever they want so they don’t bother people. It’s so annoying when people just stand there & shake their heads or start with their rude comments as my toddler is screaming & I’m dealing with my other 3 kids are all asking me something while I’m frazzled just trying to get out of a store. Most people that have had kids understand. It’s generally people who don’t or the people who got lucky & had the angel kids like my first daughter who murmur under their breath & shake their head all self righteously. It is not always something wrong with the parenting. I have had two really good kids, one clingy cry baby & one demon. I had good parents & my brother was horrible & I was well behaved. Give the parents a break, they are having a hard enough time & are embarrassed enough already! If I take my kids out then people like you say this, if I don’t take them, then people will say I never do anything fun with them like my mother in law tells me.