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In reply to the discussion: Adults that spoil kids aggravate me [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)I invited the mom with the little monster because she's alone and I was friendly with her for some time. Her husband left her for another woman, and she's been by herself with her child for about a year. I figured she could enjoy herself. Who knows? Maybemeet somebody? We invited a couple of other singles (men).
I thought she'd leave the kid home - OR - if she had to bring him, she'd pull him away and do time out with him if he began to behave badly. She brought him to our Christmas dinner and party, and she clearly had a blast, giggling whenever her monster did something that was unpleasant (and no, she wasn't drunk). She really, honestly thinks (like a few that responded to my post in a negative way) that other people have a responsibility to take care of her little monster for her, or that they somehow will automatically find his destructiveness and rudeness charming.
It's a great idea having a kids' room. We did that a lot when I was growing up. We'd have a big feast, family and friends One table would be in a different room and it was for the kids. The big table with the wine, etc. was for the adults. We kids had a BLAST! To be perfectly honest, we found the conversation of the adults (work, house repair, music adults liked, etc. etc.) BORING. None of us wanted to sit with the adults, but if one of us misbehaved, we'd be forced to sit at the adults' table. That was pure torture because we knew the rest of the kids would be enjoying themselves in the kids' room.
In this case, there was only 1 child, but he was like 20 kids lol Super ill behaved. The problem, though, was the MOM. She did NOTHING to stop her kid's misbehavior. NOTHING.