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GreatAmericanZero
01-09-2009, 02:58 PM
on O&A they were having parents call in and they were telling stories about disciplining their kids in public and strangers coming up to them and judging them. i think some of those stories are hilarious
obviously, i have no kids...but i remember when i was a kid i went to NYC with my friend and his family. My friend had a new born sister that his dad was pushing in a stroller. My friend kept getting in the way of his dad where the dad finally says "move it you bonehead!" some woman, just walking in the street starts yelling at my friends dad, saying "you don't call a child a bonehead! that is horrible of you" and my friends dad just starts going "Fuck you lady, i'll call my kid whatever i want". It makes me laugh so hard that it was all over the term "bonehead" which would be considered a mild insult in 1955. I still laugh whenever i hear that term
anyone ever witness or have experienced no-nothing "budinskis" adding their two cents about what adults should do with their children?
lleeder
01-09-2009, 03:00 PM
Nice thread, bonehead.
IamPixie
01-09-2009, 03:12 PM
I can only think of a time where I was mildly tempted to say something.....
I was waiting for my train in the subway and I saw this lady and her kid coming down the steps. The kid, who must have been about 5 was running down the steps. The mother gets mad at him for running so she hits him hard in the chest and kid is projected backwards, hitting his back, legs, and head on the edges of the steps (because his body is so small). Luckily he was wearing a big knit hat and a down jacket, so he wasn't injured.
Still it seemed like the punishment inflicted more harm than the crime. I didn't say anything cause she looked like she could and would have easily kicked my ass.
RoseBlood
01-09-2009, 05:12 PM
I've had to bite my tongue on a few occasions when I don't agree with how I see a parent reprimanding their child. For me to say anything only puts them on the defensive and they would never take my opinion seriously. If i thought them hearing a speech from me would do any good, i'd say something, but it won't, so i don't.
So bottom line, Unless, the child is in immediate danger, I butt out.
Also, I try to be careful before I'm too quick to pass judgement cause, when you're out in the store, we only see a fraction of the truth. We also don't know if a child has some condition that may cause them to be disruptive.
I'll never forget when I waited tables. There was a mom and her son. The son was about 7 or 8 and playing with an infant toy. I said hello to the boy and smiled and he looked up and yelled "SHUT UP YOU FUCKIN BITCH ARRRGGHHAAHHHHH". The mother was mortified and apologized. Now, should I have scolded the mother for that and made her feel more embarrassed, when obviously there was something wrong with the child?
lleeder
01-09-2009, 05:18 PM
I like that this thread has no parents posting in it.
IamPixie
01-09-2009, 05:20 PM
I like that this thread has no parents posting in it.
shut up, bonehead.
lleeder
01-09-2009, 05:21 PM
shut up, bonehead.
I wasn't talking to you, budinski.
sailor
01-09-2009, 07:59 PM
we went to the next to last game at yankee stadium and i was carrying our son while we were walking to the lot our car was parked in. some random idiot hanging out outside a bodega comes up to me and says "yo, man, it's too cold for the baby. you need to bundle him up." it was 70 degrees out and the kid and i were both sweating.
sailor
01-09-2009, 08:02 PM
shut up, bonehead.
I wasn't talking to you, budinski.
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RoseBlood
01-09-2009, 08:11 PM
please, no humorous replies.
yell at GAZ then for putting a thread with the words "funny stories" in the "That's Life" forum.
sorry GAZ, i'm kinda half kidding.
Very Serious
01-09-2009, 08:13 PM
please, no humorous replies.
Yeah.
sailor
01-09-2009, 08:15 PM
yell at GAZ then for putting a thread with the words "funny stories" in the "That's Life" forum.
sorry GAZ, i'm kinda half kidding.
that was the joke, ma'am. :)
PapaBear
01-09-2009, 08:16 PM
Not really my parenting, but my 2nd ex. When our son was about 2 she was in her mid 20's. She's 4' 11", had a young face, and was wearing braces. People would stop her at the grocery store and comment on how cute her little brother was. When she told them he was her son, they always looked down on her like she was some teen slut.
ecobag2
01-09-2009, 08:25 PM
Nothing yet - but I can't friggin wait. There's, without a doubt, going to be a certain amount of intimidation invovled in my son's upbringing and I think that's what most people shy away from because it's all seen as wrong. The fact is, you need some postive reinforcement but sometimes negative consequences out of love is just the trick.
My son's just over 10 months old and I pull out "big voice guy" sometimes when he's just temper tantruming ... and I know people would call a SWAT team on me if I did that routine in public ( I can sound off pretty good from the diaphragm and I say literally "I'm biiiiiiiig voooooiiiiiice guyyyyyyyyy!!!!). But it's sometimes the perfect thing to just shut him up and then he looks at me.
I smile, he smiles and starts laughing.
Then we wrestle.
Kick that kid's ass in some wrestling.
The nice thing is my wife's M.A. is childhood education - and I swear she studied nothing else in that cirriculum outside of child psych and application to behavior modification - she's pretty well versed on it so I'll have someone to quote theory if some asshole intervenes.
I remember Fezzie talking about this one day. And it angers me no end to hear people with no kids and their opinions about what you're doing with a child when it falls in a grey area.
Some shit's unacceptable. So where's the line on that? Meh. That's where the controversy is I guess.
GreatAmericanZero
01-10-2009, 04:34 AM
yell at GAZ then for putting a thread with the words "funny stories" in the "That's Life" forum.
sorry GAZ, i'm kinda half kidding.
where does it say that?
i just got That's Life: The Forum Life weighing you down? Trouble with relationships? Vent here. We'll all try to help. i'm venting. this board sucks
Farmer Dave
01-10-2009, 04:36 AM
I'm a natural when it comes to fatherhood. No one has ever questioned my parenting skills. I slap them and send them to their mother.
sailor
01-10-2009, 04:43 AM
where does it say that?
i just got That's Life: The Forum Life weighing you down? Trouble with relationships? Vent here. We'll all try to help. i'm venting. this board sucks
it's the sticky from justjon "about this forum" (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=52177) it's not a big deal, but a mod should probably move the thread. this forum is the only refuge on this board where you can talk about serious shit without fear of being ripped apart. like you can post about trouble trying to lose weight without everyone calling you jeff.
Don Stugots
01-10-2009, 04:51 AM
we went to the next to last game at yankee stadium and i was carrying our son while we were walking to the lot our car was parked in. some random idiot hanging out outside a bodega comes up to me and says "yo, man, it's too cold for the baby. you need to bundle him up." it was 70 degrees out and the kid and i were both sweating.
i hate when i see kids in their Tundra-wear and it is not needed. maybe, i want my kid to get a chill. mind your business.
sailor
01-10-2009, 04:55 AM
i hate when i see kids in their Tundra-wear and it is not needed. maybe, i want my kid to get a chill. mind your business.
a few weeks back i was waiting for the bus and one guy told another guy that his kid should have gloves on. even though i wasn't involved i wanted to tell the meddler to fuck off.
Ritalin
01-10-2009, 05:19 AM
I have the opposite problem: My 8 year old nephew is such a flaming asshole that nobody wants to hang out with him or his parents. They just don't see how much they are ruining him by refusing to discipline him at all. They're the types that don't think it's "cool" to be the kind of parents who are always telling their kid no.
How bad is he? Our dog Sputnik died on Memorial Day, and about a month later we went to visit that family, and this kid decided that he didn't like something my wife had done - and he's the kind of kid who takes everything as a slight to him - so he waited until there was a lull in the conversation and he said "hey, why didn't you guys bring Sputnik with you?" and then he smiled and said "oh yeah, that's right".
Right in front of his parents, and they didn't blink an eye.
And everyone is too chicken to tell them that we hate their kid, because that will blow the whole family up. It sucks bad.
Tall_James
01-10-2009, 06:26 AM
The lady next to me gave me shit about letting my daughter on the motorcycle but I told her to mind her own fucking business.
http://img2.moonbuggy.org/imgstore/young-girl-rides-motorcycle.gif
lleeder
01-10-2009, 12:00 PM
One time I saw this kid with his mom and she punched him in the balls. I was like "Hey".
Coach
01-10-2009, 12:34 PM
Well, this happend to my mom.
I was about 9 years old and we were checking into a hotel for the night after my cousin's christening. Needless to say, we are all dressed up. I am wearing the classic blue blazer and khaki pants.
We're standing in the lobby, while my Dad checks us in. Mom suddenly yells "Coach, I told you not to wander off!" and sets off after "me", only I am sitting on a couch behind my mother, blinking at my sister, going what?
Mom catches up to my doppleganger in a similar outfit, grabs him by the collar, and jerks him around angrily. Just one problem..the duplicate me has a 1970's pornstar moustache.(it was 1979)
Turns out..we had checked into a Hotel that was hosting the "Little People of America" Convention. We were pretty much the only normal heighted people staying in the joint.
sailor
01-10-2009, 12:45 PM
Well, this happend to my mom.
I was about 9 years old and we were checking into a hotel for the night after my cousin's christening. Needless to say, we are all dressed up. I am wearing the classic blue blazer and khaki pants.
We're standing in the lobby, while my Dad checks us in. Mom suddenly yells "Coach, I told you not to wander off!" and sets off after "me", only I am sitting on a couch behind my mother, blinking at my sister, going what?
Mom catches up to my doppleganger in a similar outfit, grabs him by the collar, and jerks him around angrily. Just one problem..the duplicate me has a 1970's pornstar moustache.(it was 1979)
Turns out..we had checked into a Hotel that was hosting the "Little People of America" Convention. We were pretty much the only normal heighted people staying in the joint.
sure you weren't just watching 30 rock?
IMSlacker
01-10-2009, 02:02 PM
The only person who has ever given my shit about my parenting skills is my wife.
Fez4PrezN2008
01-10-2009, 02:35 PM
...
Some shit's unacceptable. So where's the line on that? Meh. That's where the controversy is I guess.
There is NO good way to comment on someone else's parenting... Its either cringe and mind your own business or duck around the corner and call DHS.
Once when my daugher was about 4 she ran away from us in the grocery store to the next isle by herself when she knew she wasn't supposed to go away from us. When I went to bring her back and took her by the hand she yells out "Help, somebody's got my arm!" like I was some kind of pedophile abducting her. That wasn't embarassing or anything.
lleeder
01-10-2009, 02:37 PM
we went to the next to last game at yankee stadium and i was carrying our son while we were walking to the lot our car was parked in. some random idiot hanging out outside a bodega comes up to me and says "yo, man, it's too cold for the baby. you need to bundle him up." it was 70 degrees out and the kid and i were both sweating.
yeah but that was just the neighborhood's effect not the weather
ecobag2
01-10-2009, 04:41 PM
There is NO good way to comment on someone else's parenting... Its either cringe and mind your own business or duck around the corner and call DHS.
Once when my daugher was about 4 she ran away from us in the grocery store to the next isle by herself when she knew she wasn't supposed to go away from us. When I went to bring her back and took her by the hand she yells out "Help, somebody's got my arm!" like I was some kind of pedophile abducting her. That wasn't embarassing or anything.
If you see a little kid getting the shit kicked out of him badly - you have to say something.
~Katja~
01-10-2009, 04:55 PM
my most recent story was at jfk airport.
It took me 3h to get there trying to pick up my parents who had be detoured there instead of going to newark.
Lukas slept all the way which was great, but when we got out and entered the airport he was a total pill.
I carried him around and he was just very demanding while I was trying to figure out why my parents still were not out an hour after they supposedly landed.
Turned out their luggage was lost and we had to stand in line for another half hour, and while I was exhausted and he probably was bored he just behaved badly. So at one point I put him in his place by telling him to behave with a rather stern voice.
An old lady looks at me and says" He is probably just tired"
I gave her a dead stare.
Seriously, who was she to know my kid was tired?
Fuck off old lady!
Coach
01-10-2009, 06:49 PM
sure you weren't just watching 30 rock?
Yup, I don't watch it.
joethebartender
01-12-2009, 02:08 AM
I have the opposite problem: My 8 year old nephew is such a flaming asshole that nobody wants to hang out with him or his parents. They just don't see how much they are ruining him by refusing to discipline him at all. They're the types that don't think it's "cool" to be the kind of parents who are always telling their kid no.
How bad is he? Our dog Sputnik died on Memorial Day, and about a month later we went to visit that family, and this kid decided that he didn't like something my wife had done - and he's the kind of kid who takes everything as a slight to him - so he waited until there was a lull in the conversation and he said "hey, why didn't you guys bring Sputnik with you?" and then he smiled and said "oh yeah, that's right".
Right in front of his parents, and they didn't blink an eye.
And everyone is too chicken to tell them that we hate their kid, because that will blow the whole family up. It sucks bad.
I know who's going to have an "accident" on the swings.:wink:
nevnut
01-12-2009, 02:43 AM
When my son was 10 or 11, he was late coming home one day. After being about 2 or 3 hours late, the wife and were starting to get pretty worried and were driving all over town looking for him. When he finally got home both his mother and I lit into him basically yelling at him about how worried we were and to not be late again. The neighbor who always had this "better-than you" attitude walked up and said our yelling was disturbing his peaceful afternoon. I asked him If he preferred we beat our child instead and he never said another word to me again.
Ritalin
01-12-2009, 03:34 AM
I know who's going to have an "accident" on the swings.:wink:
Oh, great idea. I didn't think about that.
Or, perhaps a "rafting" trip.
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