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My youngest ds plays ball on the 5 & 6 year old team. At the beginning of the season he kept telling me about the "mean" boy that stepped on his fingers and pushed him down. After a few weeks of watching them I could tell he was a handful. He is pushing, throwing dirt, kicking or something constantly with his parents( mom, stepdad helps coach, dad, stepmom or girlfriend, grandma, step-grandparents) watching and no one correcting him. Well I had enough, so I was in the dugout trying to keep peace when one kids starts talking about kicking someones butt. I said politely, "we're not talking like that, watch the game and yell for your teammate at bat." This one little boy looked at me and said my son said a bad word. I said no he didn't, I was right in front of him and he said oh yes he did, he said the "a" word. I said NO,he didn't, my son doesn't even know the "a" word. He's only 5 and no one in my family uses those words and if he heard it it would be from him or tv. This is not the first time he has used foul language. Another time at practice a different child said he said a bad word and the parents said it couldn't be true. The child is a great player and he made a home run and ran in the dugout like he was the star saying "I made a homerun!" Ugh, it's really sad that all those people are there for him, but no one really gives a crap about how he is going to turn out.
Oh, and my kids think the "s" word is stupid, the "h" word is hate, and the "d" word is dumb, because I do not let them say those words either. They just don't sound nice coming out of childrens mouths.
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Ugh What a brat!
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Yikes! I can not stand kids like that!!
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It's kids like that, that make you want to keep your kids locked in the house until their 30.
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Wow I agree what a BRAT!!
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There is always at least one... the addage is as timeless as the reality
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Just one question: where is the coach when the abuse is going on?
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Unfortunately, there is always at least one in every group. I point out to my kids how the 'mean' boy doesn't have as many friends. Consider it a great teaching opportunity (I explain that we treat others how we want to be treated ourselves) and be thankful that your children do not behave that way.
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I don't know when it became such a chore to parent your child. When telling your child no became such a bad thing to say/do. It drives my dh and I crazy when we are out and about and see these families, and the children just rule the parents. We ate at Burger King today, my 5yr old wanted a kid's meal, he didn't get it, he dealt with it, ate his lunch and on our way we went. He doesn't hate us for not getting him a kid's meal, he isn't going to remember 10yrs from now this incident. Ugh!
My dh had a customer in the dealership with her almost 3yr old ds and her mother a couple of days ago. He called me (and I could hear this child screaming and carrying on in the background) and said don't you ever complain again about our boys acting up, they are perfect angels compared to the child in here now. He was slapping the mom and g-ma in the face when he didn't get their attention right away, the mom and my dh were trying to talk and the child kept interrupting: mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy,mommy, mommy etc! and while saying this stabbing her in the arm with a pen. My dh said she had small pen prick holes in her arm and pen marks on her t-shirt. I mean come on, you are trying to buy a car and you can't control your kid for any length of time? And buying a car is not a child friendly fun time. He was running around the showroom, trying to hide in the cars, on the test drive screaming to his mom he wants McDonalds, NOW and he wants to sit outside so he can play and she tells him ok, if that's what you want honey. So my dh is driving them back to the dealership and flies right past McD's and he starts crying and complaining, why didn't he stop, I said I wanted to go there. Come on! So the mom says oh honey, we'll go in a little bit. The kid picked up some sort of toy off of a desk and scratched another boy right under the eye (it was bring your child to work day and the other boy was an employee's child). Oh yeah, and he spit towards my dh! I hate to think how this poor little boy (like the so many others like him) is going to grow up and go through school, all because the parents don't feel like parenting. It's sad really. They don't know how to behave because they have not been taught how to behave.
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I totally agree with the last post!
I guess we can't get mad at the children. We must blame the parents.