What's Up With Parents?

[FieryPrincess]

I just spotted an article today about a 5YO who was killed at a rotating restaurant because his head got caught in the mechanism.

This is so horrific, I don't want to apply too much thought into picturing it, but I was reminded of a recent lunch with a friend who had her 3YO in tow. The three was old played under the table and wasn't really reprimanded for anything. How can kids learn to behave if we don't hold them to our standards and expectations?

Barring special needs, a 5YO ought to know how to sit at the table with family. I feel this ought to be even more true when considering how fancy those rotating restaurants are (think like the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio)

I can't figure out if it is because parents are afraid to parent out loud in this day and age for fear of being executed in the court of public opinion via social media, if they don't parent, or if they don't know how to parent anymore.

I didn't start this post intending to bash the parents of the child who just died, but I am curious on a larger scale what is going on? In this day and age, I am considered pretty tough. I'm the mean parent that went and took all the balls away at the Easter breakfast this morning to get them back on their youth-served-Easter-breakfast this morning. I felt like other parents were afraid to go in and tell other parents' kids what to do (as a teacher, I have never suffered from this feeling).

[Dagobert II]

I'm wondering what sort of safety standards apply to spinning restaurants to insure they don't process customers. Of course I don't know that this is a common occurrence either.

[Rick]

I'm guessing that the rotating restaurant's view was awe inspiring and the child may have been standing on the seat and fell in between the moving part and the stationary part.

But having never been in one of those rotating restaurants, I'm just guessing.

[mac]

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I'm guessing that the rotating restaurant's view was awe inspiring and the child may have been standing on the seat and fell in between the moving part and the stationary part.

But having never been in one of those rotating restaurants, I'm just guessing.

it would seem to me that if that's the case, it would've already gotten somebody's foot or knee.....or elbow maybe......mac

[Rick]

I just read a report and it says he got stuck between two tables.

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Are the tables bolted down?

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[ithoughtso]

There're aren't any more "parents" , just people that breed.

[Night Owl]

What is going on with today's parents? Why does a child have to be entertained 24/7? What ever happened with a child sitting in a restaurant quietly, without having to have a video being played to keep them silent. Oh wait I know the answer, parents not being parents. When I was a kid my Dad would have knocked me away from the table if I acted up, but society doesn't allow that anymore. Today kids don't understand the word NO.

[sojourner truth]

My wife and I have this uncanny knack for drawing the kids who scream and yell throughout a meal. We can be sitting all alone in a corner and as soon as we order, here they come right next to us.

The number one product of Killeen Texas is babies.. My wife calls them stepladder kids... You know, one every 9 months so they look like miniature clones of each successive generation.

It has gotten to the point where we do not readily go to dine out any more. The worst places for us are Rosas, and Cracker Barrel. Wal mart is a given for bad behavior. Especially at the checkout where they conveniently place all of the candy bars and small toys. It usually starts out as simple fussing, and then you hear "No...No" coming from the kid, then escalates into concentrated fussing and crying, soon to be followed by uncontrolled screaming. How the parent (there are seldom 2 of them with the kids) just sits there like they are in a soundproof booth.

We were pleasantly surprised when we saw a dad take his baby outside when she started into phase one last week. Doesn't happen very often.

As far as names... Who can tell any more. Like trying to figure out names in an NFL game. My wife always gets a kick whenever she hears Newt Gingrichs name and says "Who the heck names their kid Newt". Why, Mr. and Mrs. Gingrich I guess.

[fchafey]

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My wife and I have this uncanny knack for drawing the kids who scream and yell throughout a meal. We can be sitting all alone in a corner and as soon as we order, here they come right next to us.

The number one product of Killeen Texas is babies.. My wife calls them stepladder kids... You know, one every 9 months so they look like miniature clones of each successive generation.

It has gotten to the point where we do not readily go to dine out any more. The worst places for us are Rosas, and Cracker Barrel. Wal mart is a given for bad behavior. Especially at the checkout where they conveniently place all of the candy bars and small toys. It usually starts out as simple fussing, and then you hear "No...No" coming from the kid, then escalates into concentrated fussing and crying, soon to be followed by uncontrolled screaming. How the parent (there are seldom 2 of them with the kids) just sits there like they are in a soundproof booth.

We were pleasantly surprised when we saw a dad take his baby outside when she started into phase one last week. Doesn't happen very often.

As far as names... Who can tell any more. Like trying to figure out names in an NFL game. My wife always gets a kick whenever she hears Newt Gingrichs name and says "Who the heck names their kid Newt". Why, Mr. and Mrs. Gingrich I guess.

You know his full name is Newton Leroy Gingrich.....and after having heard that, well, never mind…..