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My goodness, I never cease to be amazed at how some parents think their kids are God's answer to the planet. This applies mostly (I'd say almost exclusively) to the parents that have the brattiest kids on the planet.
Yesterday I had to spend some time with one of these kids because the mother felt that her child is so delightful, that surely all adults WANTED to have her child in their midst interrupting everything the adults said, and trying to break everything in the house and filthy it up. The adults wanted to make a run for it. That kid was loud, boisterous, not particularly bright, and (as if all the rest were not enough), NOT fascinating in the least. What the mom felt was grown up behavior on her child's part was merely a tremendous capacity for being obnoxious and unpleasant.
However, this mom was oohing and aahing about her kid (heck, who else was going to ooh and aah for this walking, talking obnoxia?), and trying to elicit our oohs and aahs, which were not forthcoming. I plastered what I refer to as, 'the look of the insane' smile on my face and pretended I was a robot. No oohs and aahs would come from me.
Why do parents (GENERALLY MOMS) inflict this on other adults? These moms behave as if they wanted to be your friend, but then by golly, they're HELL-BENT on you loving their bratty, spoiled kid. I think these moms don't really want to have friends. They just want to have an AUDIENCE for their bratty kids.
Since I'm on a rant about adults that do this, here's a tiny list of these adults that aggravate me. Let me know if any of you out there agree with me on this:
-Parents that include their kids in everything, adult conversations, bring kids to your dinner that youve made very clear is a grown ups dinner, etc.
-Parents that allow their kids to interrupt conversations between them and another adult
-Parents that allow the kids to run and answer the phone every time and waste your time talking trash, when the reason you called is to talk to the adult, not entertain the kid
-Parents that allow their kids to sit and listen to adult conversations
-Parents that bring their kids into the office and dont keep them from bugging the heck out of you
-Parents that stop a whole huge line at the supermarket or anywhere at all because they want their child to talk to the employee taking orders or checking out
-Parents that bring kids to your house and let them make a frikkin mess everywhere and touch every single thing, even BREAK your things.
-Parents that insist on their kids performing for you, and are seeking for you to applaud like a trained seal no matter how horrific the performance was
-Parents that go on for endless hours about their kids accomplishments
-Parents that side with their kids against teachers and, well, just about everybody
-Parents that let their kids behave and run like animals through stores
-Parents that behave as if their kid were God's answer to the world, and insist you acknowledge that
WAKE UP, PARENTS! STOP TRYING TO GET ME TO ADORE YOUR KIDS!
Okay, now that I got that out of my system, all I want to add is that I think treating kids like some sort of perfect beings, or royalty, and putting them first 24/7 is the perfect recipe for creating narcissistic and perhaps sociopathic adults.