Good Reads Library
Yet Another Rant On Bad Parenting, Or, This Is What Happens When a Mom Lets a Kid Have a Tantrum In Here, & I Have To Clean Up Afterwards....
Dear Parents of America:
What the hell is wrong with some of you?
Did YOU come from families where your mom and dad thought it was acceptable for you to go into public places and run amok?
Did you go into stores and pull things off the shelves--and if you did did your parents clean up after you?
Did your mom take you to a public building--say a library--and allow you to run up and down the aisles, climb the stairs and jump on the furniture while she sat idly by chit-chatting with her friends?
Did she let you have temper tantrums in public and just STAY in the supermarket, or store or LIBRARY, screaming your little lungs out?
Did she nod her head blithely while you tore all the pages out of a library book--and then sneak it back into the library "mended" with tape? Or smile when you took a crayon and scribbled all over the pretty pictures?
Did she and daddy sit smiling in a restaurant (or at a play, or a museum) while you screamed, because it didn't matter about all those other people sitting there?
Somehow, I doubt it. In fact, I rather expect it would've gotten you a swift potch (swat) on the toches!!!
So pick up the toys your kids pull off the shelves, put the books in the cart, and TAKE THEM OUT when they're having a tantrum!
Look, you have nice kids. I know that. But you're not letting them SHOW what nice kids they are.
It's not being mean to them. It's teaching them manners. Something they'll need when they're older. And believe me, you'll appreciate it as much as rest of us will.
Maybe more so. Especially when they turn into teenagers!
Sincerely yours,
The Library Lady
