Give ‘Em The Chair.
Some parents just need beaten with hammers.
Look, I’m a dad, and I know that kids freaking out in a restaurant can be a) mortifying, and b) totally annoying to the other customers. Fortunately, my kids have historically been really, really good in public. Connor is usually quite content to play with a toy or color, and he’s a great eater. Kyle at this point pretty much just kicks back in the car seat and chews on things.
There was one time that Connor lost it. We were at Applebee’s, and our server was the slowest human I think I’ve ever encountered. He was hungry, he was antsy, and he melted. He recovered about two minutes later when something he could eat finally arrived, but that was a very looooooong two minutes. I know it can be irritating.
But still. To descend to the level of abject cruelty described in the article . . . those people already have issues. It reminds me of the wise statement from “Parenthood”, delivered by Keanu Reeves; paraphrased, it runs, “They’ll make you get a license to drive a car or catch a fish, but they’ll let anybody have a kid.”
June 13th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Thank God the kid didn’t die in the car or he didn’t find the handgun. Those folks are morons and don’t deserve a child.
Stories like these make me wonder if there will ever be a time where babies get chemically castrated or something similar at birth. Then when they are older, they show that they are capable enough to keep a child and the process gets reversed. It would help cut down on teenage pregnancies for one thing.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Hey think about my situation…
I’m not with my baby’s mother. She hasn’t had the best taste in men her entire life (look at ME for example)– if I found out that my daughter’s mom and her boyfriend did that to MY kid?!?
They wouldn’t have to worry about the cops and what their neighbors thought…
Not that my baby’s momma would let that happen–she’s a German beast–but still…
That couple needs to be made public spectacle and humiliated.
June 14th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I’d like to know why these kinds of people never get caught doing this stuff until it’s too late, but when I tell my daughter at the store that she’s going to get punished if she keeps acting up, 15 wannabe social workers descend on me like I’m going to beat her with a baseball bat.
There was some chick here in town a couple of days ago threatened to drop her baby off the balcony if her boyfriend didn’t change his act. Good thing her hands weren’t sweaty or something. There was another chick last year that let her 3-year-old boy run out in the middle of the freeway. There is always some kid getting shaken to death or slammed into the wall around here because they wouldn’t stop crying.
But these same people that would go after me won’t go into the hoods and reach out to any of those people that need the help and that don’t have any decent parenting models of their own to use.
I wish there was licensed parenting, but I guess that’s what we’ve got abortion for. Even though it’s not the kid’s fault that his parents are screwed up and he couldn’t choose better ones, let’s kill him off anyway. I know in the ’90s that the city of Baltimore told people that were receiving welfare they had to get Norplant… not sure how successful that was practically and legally.
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