Parents who do not Parent erk me

I take my son to alot of playgrounds. He usually will walk around and say "hi" to everyone, check out what they're doing and decide who he wants to play with first! It's the funniest thing... I can see him now, a high powered atty or something, scoping out the cocktail hours and focusing in on the best conversations! LOL!! Anyway, yeah, I hate this too! It's happened a few times, both by my child and others. The first time it happens, my response is "We don't hit our friends" and "This is your only warning" and I make him say he's sorry. I try to do this within earshot of the mother... If it happens again, and it's my child being rough, we have a time out - right there in the playground. This usually stops the behavior. If it's another child, I say to my son, within earshot of the mother, "Let's find someone else to play with, someone who is nice and doesn't hit/push/shares (whatever)" And we walk away. I will continue to keep Alex away from the bad child and will continue to tell him to play with "nice children." If it happens a third time, regardless of if it's my son or another child, we leave immediatly. I will say to my son, "We are leaving because you are not playing nice." or "Lets go someplace else where we can find friends who play nice." With other children, my son will not show aggression unless another does first, he's just too sweet and just wants to play. He's always the one on the playground running around, trying to show children how to do something, helping little ones, or something! It's funny, because I always catch HIM telling other children, "You can do it!", "You have to share" or "You did it, good job!" LOL!!

I see this all too often. I cant stand when parents arent paying attention to their child(ren). If a child is hurting my child I do say something to the child and there have been times the parent says something to me. I just tell the parent that their child was hitting or pushing my child and I was just making sure my child was okay and you werent paying attention so I said something. I cant even take my eyes off my children for 2 seconds without feeling quilty. I have 3 soon to be 4 children and I have learned real fast on how to watch them all even when they are all over the playground. I think this was a good rant. Too many parents arent parents at all.

Not long ago I stopped at a shop and when I came out and was passing a car parked in front of mine I noticed it was running. Glancing inside I noticed a toddler and a baby sitting in the car by themselves. Immediately I was concerned, then the person in the car next to it rolled down her window and announced that she was watching the kids. I felt like saying "So are you going to watch the car crash into the building too?" I could not believe the stupidity of the mother or the person "watching" them.

Yes there are a lot of parents like this about where I live, they let their children run wild. I took my daughter who is 3 to a place called big tops which is a fun factory for kids. She was playing quite happily when a girl of about 4 came up to her, she was twice the size of my daughter and she backed her into a corner and started slapping her around. The childs mother saw it all and just sat there and did nothing. My daughter was crying and I went to her and I told the little girl not to do that again and the mother sat glaring at me I was fuming. Their children do wrong yet they look at others as if they are to blame.

When i used to take my Children to the park i seen this situation more thna one time. However i no longer take my children to the park i always take them to my sisters house cause her house is like a park and she dont have any kids LOL but she has toys,slides,climbers that sort of thing. But i dont take my children to the part because another little boy push my son off the slide and broke his leg and the mother of the little boy didnt do anything but laugh which made me very mad and i could have went off but i didnt just because there was children around and my child was hurt however the next day i did go back to the part and i did see her and her child there as well but this time i went by myself and i confronted the mother over it of course her reason was "it was funny hes just being a kid" and of course i could have slaped her around for a little while then ask her if it was funny" LOL but i didnt. As someone else stated its a childs world...That it might be but when it comes to hurting another child(ren) badly its not a child(ren)'s World anymore it becomes a bad sitatuion that no child(ren) should ever have to go threw just to be able to go to the park and have funand freedom.

If I am at the playground and somebody hits my kid and the parent does nothing, I will go and kick that parent's butt. Good rant, they SHOULD be WATCHING their kids, not gossiping with girlfriends, blabbing or texting on a cellphone or anything else that draws their attention away from watching their danged kids.

Yes, I know the feeling very much. I am such an over protective parent that I just can not understand why people don't keep a better eye on their children. Things can happen in an instant to children, and I see parents not even looking at their kids for very long periods of time. It also bothers me when people let their little 4 and 5 year olds play out in front of the house with out watching them. We have a back yard with a 6 foot privacy fence there, and I still look at my child every 30 seconds when he is outside playing.

Children will be children and sometimes the adults tends to forget about the children world. If you are at the park and only if there will be potential harm to another child then any adult which is around at that particular time should try and dissipated it. There are also times when parents only love the children they bear/conceived and when talking to another's child will come across overbearing. So there are two sides to a story. I don't have any children and I love them and when I am talking to them I do it in a motherly tone this will get the child to see that what he/she is doing is wrong. The park is a child's world and adults should always remember this.

Oh I know, this angers me as well! It makes me wonder why people like that even have kids. The whole point is to care and nurture a child, right? Not just ignore the child and have him or her get out of control with their behavior. My two little girls are very well-disciplined and I have actually gotten complimented on how well-behaved my oldest daughter is in school. That fills me with a sense of pride hearing that too.