Sing it, sister
Don't want people insulting your child or your parenting skills? Then use those skills to raise a reasonably well-behaved child. If you're tired of hearing childfree people complain about parents and children, then don't give us any ammunition. We're just as tired of complaining about your (and your children's) selfish and inconsiderate behavior. Remedy that behavior and watch the complaints and snarky comments dwindle to nothing. You can do it, if you really want to. Then again, maybe you'd rather just complain right back at us.
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
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Oh bless you, bless you, and bless you again. I just received a diatribe on my own blog for referring to unattended children in stores as "it" and then was semi-lectured for doing so because I'm childless.
This has inspired me to be somewhat antagonistic in my reply to this woman and in doing so, I began searching the net to discover that there are others like me who are simply fed up.
Thank you for helping me realize that I'm not alone. Bless you!!!
Marybeth
http://spaces.msn.com/members/wellanyway/
You are by no means alone, and thanks for sharing your anecdote and your blog link. Anyone giving you a hard time because of your post, or your referring to children as "it," really should just have a nice cup of hot Ex-Lax cocoa and get over themselves.
Thanks so very much! After years of frustration in nice restauraunts and other adult-oriented venues, I was foolish enough to comment about ill-behaved kids on a public message board. Needless to say, the words hateful, angry, selfish were alll thrown my way post-haste. I started searching the web for cites to refute the illogic and came across this. I'm delighted to see the non-parents starting to stand up for themselves.
GREAT SITE! I am so tried of giving up my time so people who choose to have kids get time off to deal with them. I don't hate kids, but I do hate it when loud and badly behaved kids ruin a nice dinner or movie, or their parents expect me to CONSTANTLY rearrange my life to work around their scheduel. I will happily do this now and then, but it happens a LOT, and the "but my kid will be so sad if I miss their game...can't you rescheduel your evening?" no longer 'guilts' me into rearranging my life. If the kid is sick or something, thats different, but just to make their lives convenient when they choose to make them inconvenient, NO MORE! Its nice to see I am far from alone!
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