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Janet

In article >,
says...
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> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:42:22 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
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> >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
>
> And there is little or nothing wrong with the kids' behavior.

I can't believe you wrote that, or believe it.

Janet UK