Do You Believe Some People Do Not Deserve The PrivlageTo Be Parents?

@all4ucnc (861)
United States
April 17, 2007 10:47am CST
I'm so frustrated right now. . . My kids were NOT easy to come by, my husband and I tried for years, before we wereable to have our son and I had to have shots daily just to stay pregnant... So when my friends told me thier "funny little story" I wanted to choke them, for even though they were laughing I was outraged. Aparently the mom went to her yoga class and the dad was left in charge of the 5yr old daughter and their 2 yr old son. The dad wanted to wax the motorhome, so went outside with his kids and let them play on the battery powered jeep. Well the son is not one to stick around and needs to be watched closely (they think his independance is cute, and he never gets disaplined for taking off). So while mom is gone, dad is waxing the motorhome, sister runs into the house to use the potty, the son goes for a ride on the toy jeep........ Mom comes home "Where is "C"?".... Dad "I don't know, how can I watch him and wax this too?" So she goes in the house and asks the daughter "he outside playing." They go back outside and begin looking for him....While they are calling his name someone on the highway yells "He's up here"... Now they live behind a church, this 2 yr old boy drove the little jeep down the drive way, down thier little street, across the entire church parking lot, hit the highway, and had made it down past a couple houses to the next church were he finally ran off the road and got his jeep stuck in the ditch. So it's not like dad turned his back for a mere second, those toy jeeps don't exactly go all that fast. So my thought is "WHERE ARE YOUR PRIORITIES AT? WHEN YOU ARE LEFT TO WATCH YOUR OWN CHILD FOR 20MIN. SHOULDN'T YOU PUT THE WAXING ON HOLD FOR LITTLE WHILE? The son did not get in trouble and neither did the dad, and now they have a cute little story to tell friends and family....YUCK!!! I want to yank away their privalages of being called mommy and daddy.
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4 responses
17 Apr 07
I think that people have different parenting techniques which result in different kinds of children. Obviously what these parents did was totally irresponsible. However there are other people who wouldn't agree. I think you need to give you children the right balance of independence and disclapine. They need to know what is right, but at the same time need freedom to develop their personalities. It is a real hard job to get the balance right and I spend a lot of time working out if I have got it right. It sounds like you think about it too, and that is what makes you a good parent.
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@all4ucnc (861)
• United States
17 Apr 07
independance is one thing, but letting them play on a busy highway because your too busy doing your own thing... is just wrong, they both should have gotten in trouble. They didn't say anything to the little guy. his mom said "I just gave him a hug, and said you know you scared your mommy"....Not don't you ever run off like that again, or you know better that to play on the road...Nothing. And if my husband had my kids outside and was preoccupied to keep an eye them (though my kids do know better.)and one of them ended up down the highway or in the river we live by, you can better beleive he would be "cut off" for a long time, cuz that would deserve some serious punishment in itself.
@Blazing15 (333)
• United States
17 Apr 07
That's horrible that that happened. I believe the dad should have waited until his wife got back home to wax the motor home. You never know what kind of stuff can happen out there. I don't let my kids leave my site at all. There are way too many weirdos out there. I'm glad that they found him and that he was safe.
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@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Irresponsible parents like the ones you describe should at least take a parenting class. I agree that this is not a funny story to be told at social gatherings. Waxing any vehicle is not worth losing a child.
@angel575 (66)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Now that is just plain ignorant on thier part...he could have easily been kidnapped or killed. I would be ashamed to ever mention that story...It's every parents nightmare. The father need a good swift kick in the butt because what he was doing could have waited.