Parents Just Don't Understand
All the posts this week will be titled after songs from washed up singers from the recent past.So I'm sitting in this decently nice Italian restaurant in the suburbs. Next to me is a table with 2 women and 2 children. One girl, about 11, and a boy in between 4-6. I'm looking forward to a nice quiet evening filled with Chicken Parmesan and Jack Kerouac, but my table neighbors have a different idea. The kids (who were for some reason wearing cardboard party hats) thought it would be wonderful to run around the restaurant, poking each other, yelling, and acting like little monsters.
I can deal with unruly kids occasionally. Let's say the kid is under 5...he doesn't know any better and a few outbursts are expected. But the 11 year old, has no excuse. I can also deal with some outbursts if you're in a kid friendly environment...Mcdonald's or even Chili's. But this was a nice restaurant, candles and wine and the whole shebang. If you can't control your kids, stick to the drive through at BK.
I know kids will be kids, and maybe i'm speaking out of turn, since I don't have any little bundles of joy myself...but some parents just don't understand how to raise their kids.
There's a story from my younger years of one of the last times I acted up in church. I was probably being a little bastard, no one really remembers what was going on, but my dad carried me out of the church, over his shoulder, while I was screaming "Don't spank me daddy, I'll be good." But my father, wisely, did not cave under my crying and begging. He told me that I know I'm supposed to be good in church, and he asked me to stop and I didn't, and now I deserved a spanking. And if I did it again, it would be worse.
The morale of this story is that my parents knew how to deal with rowdy kids, you hit them til they shut up.
It really pains me when I see a woman such as the woman that was sitting next to me at dinner. It was almost like her children's behavior didn't even phase her anymore. Given proper discipline while grooming these youngin's they will turn out having fear and awe, and overall respect and love for their parents.
Thanks mom & dad, there's no telling how horrible I would be without you.
posted by philthy @ 6:27 PM
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I read a quotation years ago that has stuck with me although I unfortunately forgot the author's name. The basic point he was making was that a baby is a human at the most self-absorbed, intemperate, undisciplined, and irrational mentality, and, if left to his own devices, logically will grow to become a murderer, rapist, thief, etc. It's the parents joy to raise them with loving discipline to avoid this fate.
Watching Will Smith movies is against my morals.
It doesn't help things when you pump kids full of Coke and Ice Cream either.
Dinner Table Etiquette:
1) No reading at the table
2) No TV at the table
3) Eat everything on your plate
4) No leaving the table until the food was eaten, the bible was read, and a closing prayer was offered.
5) Nobody goes anywhere until the table is cleared, the dishes put in the dishwasher, and the table wiped off.
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