rosexknight:

I once had a mother at Michaels get mad at me because I told her son to stop tearing up some Scrapbook paper we had.

Literally.

The kid was sitting there, tearing sheet of paper after sheet of paper, and I went over and was like “Hey buddy, that’s not yours don’t tear it.” Mid you, the kid was like ya know 4. So my voice was soft but stern. I know how to handle kids.

And the mom (who, by the way, was on the OTHER END of the aisle looking at who knows what with her back turned) marches up to me and grabs her kid as if I was about to shoot him and goes “You don’t have the right to tell my child what to do and what not to do. Don’t come near him!” And then storms out. We got a complaint later about customer harassment.

Another time we had a couple come in with a toddler right? Maybe two years old. And the kid screams the ENTIRE TIME they’re in there. And they’re just shopping like it’s nothing while this child screams his lungs out. My manager goes up to them (which we’re not allowed to do unless we get MANY complaints) and is all “Excuse me, is there anything we can do to help console the child? We’ve gotten complaints from other customers about disturbing them.” And the parents are like “Oh there’s nothing wrong with him. He just likes hearing his voice echo. He does that every time we go in a store.”

Like…

WTF happened to disciplining your child??? This is what leads to spoiled brats like his nephew and my ex boyfriend.

One time I had to slam on the brakes because this 7 yr old got right nito the street. The mother yelled at me for speeding (I was doing 30 which is the limit in neighborhoods) and I told her that she should not let her child play in the middle of the street. She then yelled at me because it’s apparently not my place to help children know about playing safely outside.

Also, a few nights ago, I was delivering a pizza and it was dark and I was going about 20 in a neighborhood because there were MORE children playing in the road at NIGHT and the parents told me to slow down because there was children. I informed them that 30 is the limit and I was going 20 and that they should not yell at people driving when they are letting their children play in the middle of the road at night. They also got mad.

TL;DR Parents think they know exactly what’s best for their children and refuse to let others teach children about how to be safe.