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First, let's get one thing perfectly clear: I like kids. I really like kids. I'm going to school to become a school counselor working at the middle school level, largely because I like kids. Anyone who's ever sat at a resturant with me when there's a small child around knows that if there's any possible way for me to spend the dinner making faces or playing with the kid, I'll do it. I don't lose my patience easily with children, and I've got a lot of tolerance for their behavior.
But the parents really piss me off sometimes.
Do not take your child somewhere that it is not appropriate for them to go. SERIOUSLY. A five year old cannot be expected to sit quietly and still for a three hour play or concert, so don't /take/ them if sitting quietly is what is expected from the audience. DO NOT take your six or seven year old to a gory horror movie, and then start yanking on their arm and getting pissed at them when they burst out into loud crying, or try to climb down and hide under the seat, during the film. Keep your child within reach in public places, hold their hands. Attend to what they're doing. And I say this not for my convenience (although it does always seem to be me who gets mobbed by the store-orphans), but for the safety of your child. Stores are not safe places. Not just because all people are not nice people, but because they are filled with heavy but interesting objects on tall shelves. It is not funny when your child knocks down a display of something and the store employees have to try and clean it up with patrons wandering everywhere. And it will not be funny when that same child pulls something down on themselves and breaks their arm, or their head, because they've been taught that it's okay to do things like that. And, for the love of all that is good in the world, do not get defensive and pissed off when some good Samaritan stops your child from doing something inappropriate in public.
Finally, if all else fails, and your child continues to act in an inappropriate manner...REMOVE YOUR CHILD from the area. It is not their fault that, as a seven year old, they are not a model of decorum and maturity. It is YOUR fault, however, if you don't recognize that they're having a pissy day and take them away from it, especially in settings where other people are trying to concentrate on things. You are not doing your child any good by staying. You're not doing yourself any good. And you sure as hell aren't doing the rest of us any good, since after about the first five minutes, we all want to strangle the lot of you.
A Public Service Message For The Holidays
Thank You
But the parents really piss me off sometimes.
Do not take your child somewhere that it is not appropriate for them to go. SERIOUSLY. A five year old cannot be expected to sit quietly and still for a three hour play or concert, so don't /take/ them if sitting quietly is what is expected from the audience. DO NOT take your six or seven year old to a gory horror movie, and then start yanking on their arm and getting pissed at them when they burst out into loud crying, or try to climb down and hide under the seat, during the film. Keep your child within reach in public places, hold their hands. Attend to what they're doing. And I say this not for my convenience (although it does always seem to be me who gets mobbed by the store-orphans), but for the safety of your child. Stores are not safe places. Not just because all people are not nice people, but because they are filled with heavy but interesting objects on tall shelves. It is not funny when your child knocks down a display of something and the store employees have to try and clean it up with patrons wandering everywhere. And it will not be funny when that same child pulls something down on themselves and breaks their arm, or their head, because they've been taught that it's okay to do things like that. And, for the love of all that is good in the world, do not get defensive and pissed off when some good Samaritan stops your child from doing something inappropriate in public.
Finally, if all else fails, and your child continues to act in an inappropriate manner...REMOVE YOUR CHILD from the area. It is not their fault that, as a seven year old, they are not a model of decorum and maturity. It is YOUR fault, however, if you don't recognize that they're having a pissy day and take them away from it, especially in settings where other people are trying to concentrate on things. You are not doing your child any good by staying. You're not doing yourself any good. And you sure as hell aren't doing the rest of us any good, since after about the first five minutes, we all want to strangle the lot of you.
A Public Service Message For The Holidays
Thank You
ArcGIS is /trying/ to give me a heart attack. TRYING.
You stupid program, I just need you to work until noon Thursday. That's it. Just hold it together until then, and /then/ you can have your psychotic little fits where you refuse to acknowledge the license that is right in your directories.
And don't you dare screw up my maps, you twisted code of doom.
You stupid program, I just need you to work until noon Thursday. That's it. Just hold it together until then, and /then/ you can have your psychotic little fits where you refuse to acknowledge the license that is right in your directories.
And don't you dare screw up my maps, you twisted code of doom.
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