On 7/27/2015 8:54 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:14:47 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> When I was in my 20's I had a friend who had a 2 year old. She brought
>> her adorable child to my home one day. The "adorable child" started
>> pulling books out of my bookcase and tearing pages out of them. Her
>> mother blithely ignored her. I yelled at the girl. "STOP THAT!" My
>> friend had the nerve to get angry at me for yelling at her kid. She was
>> destroying my books. Would you have put up with that?
>>
> Is that the only child horror story you can trot out? It's getting
> long in the tooth.
>
>
I've got plenty of them, thanks. I loaned another friend a hardback
book and she let her kid scribble all through it with a pen and crayons.
I met a different friend for lunch one day - I was on my lunch break.
She let her kid dip his fries in ketchup and throw them at me. Rather
than take the fries away from him all she did was say "Gary, quit" over
and over. Of course he didn't. I had to go back to work wearing a
ketchup-stained blouse. I've been seated in a booth in a restaurant and
had kids kicking the back of the seat on the side where I was sitting.
Another instance, a kid throwing food over onto our table. As usual,
the parents seem to think there is nothing wrong with this behavior.

Jill