I threw a tantrum once when my parents took me to a restaurant. I threw silverware, kicked and screamed in the aisle. They knew how to handle it. My dad told me, "son, you can't always get what you want, and you're not going to here. Besides that, you're 24 years old, and the Hooters waitress is just pretending that she likes you."

theknuckler_33: Walk into a Wal-Mart at any time of the day or night and you will hear a cacophony of screams coming from children scattered around the store. Like sirens they blare unhindered by the apparently deaf parents.

Since this if Fark, I am sure I will be the only one to point out that this is complete bullshiat. I'm not saying it never happens, but this guy is making it seem like it always happens and that is nonsense.

Actually, I don't mind the sound of screaming children in Wal-Mart. It drowns out the moans of the exploited workers there.

A couple years ago at Walmart I was in the checkout line behind a woman whose kid wouldn't stop screaming. The guy in front of them turned around and yelled out, really loud, "Hey, you be quiet". The entire front of the store came to a halt, the kid spent the rest of the time standing next to his mom holding her skirt and sobbing. I wanted to buy that man a beer.

nytmare: Was in an Arby's when a group of teenagers from the local school came in to eat. One of them would let out a scream about every 30 seconds. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" He was literally acting like a 3-year-old begging for attention. His "friends" seemed to ignore his behavior; one of them should have started swatting him on the nose with a newspaper.

You are allowed to hit other people's kids if the parents are not around. The benefit is, a child will always assume he is at fault, and will not tell on you, for fear of reprecussion.

/This also works for rape.

litespeed74: Coming on a Bicycle: This is a Fark
- circumcision
- breastfeeding
* unruly children
- teacher sex
- speed camera
- TSA
- atheism
- tipping
thread. Please post accordingly.

You forgot cyclists hogging the road threads.

Yea, but what if it's a female breast feeding atheist teacher that gets a ticket from a red light camera because she is trying to get home from the airport after the tsa made her miss her flight because she complained about unruly kids on the flight, and her 17 year old male circumcised student is riding his bike and hogging the road because he didn't get a good tip last night when he was working as a waiter in a restaurant?

nytmare: Was in an Arby's when a group of teenagers from the local school came in to eat. One of them would let out a scream about every 30 seconds. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" He was literally acting like a 3-year-old begging for attention. His "friends" seemed to ignore his behavior; one of them should have started swatting him on the nose with a newspaper.

Actually the best way to deal with a teen like this is to walk up and congratulate them on their bravery in not allowing ignorant people to intimidate them. Say that people with tourettes are just like anybody else with a handicap and deserve to live a normal life just as much as somebody who is blind or in a wheelchair. Mention that you have a young child (niece/nephew/etc...) with tourettes and hope that they will feel as comfortable being out in public as the screaming teen you are addressing.

If they do have tourettes then they will likely take it as a compliment. If they don't then you can take comfort in the fact that their friends will tell the story to everybody in school and for the next four years (possibly longer) that kid will be stuck with the nickname Tourettes.

Maybe the author needs to stop dining @ Chucky Cheese since he seems to be always dodging projectiles and screaming children when all he's trying to do is have a quiet meal with friends.

litespeed74: Coming on a Bicycle: This is a Fark
- circumcision
- breastfeeding
* unruly children
- teacher sex
- speed camera
- TSA
- atheism
- tipping
thread. Please post accordingly.

You forgot cyclists hogging the road threads.

Why don't we ever have a 4-wheelers hogging the road thread? They take up the most space to move the fewest people and cargo.

Strangerarranger: /I may have to clean a kitty shiat box every day

Every day?!? I just wait 'til the clumping litter turns the whole thing into a brick. I'm using them as the foundation for a guest house out back.

If we just outlawed heterosexual marrige, none of this would even be an issue.

I sorry there is an easy solution.

Shock collars.

If you're eating at Chili's, Olive Garden, Buca Di Beppo etc. screaming kids is part of the deal, so quit your whining and STFU.

If you're eating at Ruth's Chris or Charlie Trotter's, you should stab the screaming child and his or her parents with your steak knife as many times as it takes to restore peace and quiet.

/have 14 yo and 12 yo daughters and a 5 yo son. we leave them at home with a pizza and the OnDemand remote when we go out to eat. everyone's happier that way.

zabadu: T.M.S.: zabadu: T.M.S.: "When did such total lack of social consideration become our sentence? "

It's not. You just took a rare problem and chose to whine about it as if it were the norm.

"My father informs me I threw a temper tantrum once in public only once. "

Your father was lying.

Uh, no. I only threw one tantrum. It was my last as well.

I don't believe that.

Children throw tantrums. And the is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

The only thing that matters is what the parent does when the meltdown commences.

The idea that a parent could "cure" a toddler forever with one single event is impossible.

Spoken like someone who has never corrected a child.

Believe me, it can be done.

I have two very well behaved children that need correction almost daily.

No, It cannot be done. And anyone who tells you it can is lying.

The idea that a single "treatment" of this magical cure will stop a child from ever misbehaving in public again is absurd. You are not going to completely re-wire a kid's instincts in a single moment.

If it WERE possible there would be hundreds of books on the shelves all competing to show the reader the "one true way to make your child well behaved forever".

There would be coaches that would charge fortunes to "once and forever cure you toddler from following his or her nature".

The reason those things don't exist is because the entire idea is laughable.

People who claim they only misbehaved once in public are really claiming the were raised better than the rest of us.

brigid_fitch: I was sitting outside at Starbucks, trying to read my book, when this heffalump of a woman sat down with her 2 kids a couple of tables over. Well, she sat down--the kids were left to run around the tables, screeching, and knocking shiat over. I asked her to keep her kids quiet because I was trying to read and she said they were playing, it's what kids do. If I didn't like it, I could leave. Like it was MY fault that I was annoyed her her precious snowflakes.

So, I went inside, got a cup of coffee, and sat down with her. "I'm sorry if I came off as biatchy." I pushed the coffee closer to her. "You seem like a really nice lady." And I touched her hand. "Let's start over. I'd love to get to know you better."

Her voice cracked as she screamed for her kids to meet her at the car.

That's farkin' awesome.

So, a few years ago I'm at walmart with my mom and we're buying canned dog food because my parents have mastiffs. We're on the aisle and we can see the fishtanks from where we are, and there's two small children pounding on the fishtanks. Like, slapping on them full handed. I look at this, and the mom isn't doing anything. She's standing there ignoring the chaos next to her.
So after a long, long pause I walked over, leaned down to the kids' level, and said in a very soft whisper "If you keep doing that you'll explode their little hearts."
The kids froze and got shocked looks on their faces. The mom went atomic on me. "YOU CAN'T TALK TO MY KIDS THAT WAY!" I just smiled and carried on.
My mom was still on the aisle with the dogfood. She thanked me.

/yeah, I don't like kids, meh

I have a story too! I just remembered it.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away, when I was a little kid my parents and I went out to dinner at a restaurant in Utah. Now, I was pretty little and the details are a bit hazy, but I think I remember the gist.

In walks this incredibly gorgeous woman. The kind of woman you don't see in a podunk town in Utah. She was farking stunning. Anyway, she walks in and scouts the joint. It's empty, except for us. She leaves, and a minute later she comes back in with a coupla children in tow and a dead-farking-ringer for Chuck Norris.

Now, my mom had a HUUUUUGE crush on Chuck Norris. She was the original Texas Ranger Fangirl. God, she loved Chuck Norris. Anyway, they're seated not to far away from us. Chuck Norris' twin and one child were facing me and my mom, and the stunning woman and another child were facing away from us.

My mom kept drooling but kept it as discreet as she could. But what was odd, was how well behaved those children were. The man was noticing my mom's attention and you could sense the eye-rolling happening in the back of his head.

When we got up to leave, my mom went over, and the man shrank in his seat, and put his hand to head like a visor, as if to say "please lady, just let me eat in peace, ok?"

Expecting to get mauled by a fan, and to their utter shock, my mom simply complimented them on their children's behavior, then turned around and walked away. My mom had a shiat eating grin on her face and winked at me. The guy's jaw (that HAD to have been Chuck Norris) dropped. That HAD to have been him, his body language when my mom approached them had to have meant something.

Anyway, I have no idea what he was doing in podunk Utah at that time (if it still even was him) but I'm 98% sure that it was. My folks and I talked about that all the way home.

wambu: I was at lunch with co-workers and there was a little hellion running around screaming; his parents did nothing. The female co-worker seated next to me, a very reserved, very religious (in a good way) person, quietly moved her foot and the little snot tripped on it, feel and started crying. His mom retrieved him and he sobbed quietly as she carried him away.

Everybody smiled.

/except the kid and his parents -- fark them

Yup, intentionally hurting kids, sounds like a religious person to me.

Years ago my then 5 year old son decided he wanted some treat in the grocery store. When I told him no, he plopped down in the middle of the isle and began crying at the top of his little lungs.
So I plopped down right next to him and began crying at the top of my lungs... About 4-5 seconds was all it took for him to quit crying with a shocked look on his face. After another 2-3 seconds he was begging me to stop. "Dad... people are looking!"

Never happened again.
(Couple times he started to, but as soon I began to sit... he back-peddled as fast as possible)

\ Parenting... how works?

I demand the Cone of Silence!!

My god, there are adults out there these days who have no idea what this is. How sad.

Teufelaffe: overzealous:
That doesn't make you narcissistic, but the bolded line makes you an insufferable douchebag.

And like the parents of screaming kids, I'm okay with that.

Strangerarranger: This is why I chose cats over children. And I don't have to pay for college education.
/I may have to clean a kitty shiat box every day, but that beats having to change a diaper 10 times a day.

I'm with ya on that one. My friends kids are pretty well behaved, but I have a lot less stress with my cats.

/crazy cat guy and I'm not even 30

theknuckler_33: Walk into a Wal-Mart at any time of the day or night and you will hear a cacophony of screams coming from children scattered around the store. Like sirens they blare unhindered by the apparently deaf parents.

Since this if Fark, I am sure I will be the only one to point out that this is complete bullshiat. I'm not saying it never happens, but this guy is making it seem like it always happens and that is nonsense.

No, this is Fark. Every child is a spoiled brat who throws tantrums all day every day everywhere they go, and Your Average Witty Fark User is a hipster who doesn't have kids and thus hates them.

/I pretty much hate about 99% of Fark.
//Farking assholes

Screaming children don't bother me at all because I can function in the real world which does not revolve around me. Life isn't that stressful when you aren't a dysfunctional narcicist. If you need a special environment stay home. You are the one with a problem.

They also tell me to "Drink Responsibly". I'm not going to do that either.

One time in public, I misbehaved. We were at the exit to a grocery store with a double bank of automatic opening doors. Halfway through the exit, I stood there and laughingly told my mom she couldn't get past. She told me to move and I didn't listen. By this time, other customers were backing up behind her. She backed up and rammed me so hard with the card it knocked me through the outer doors. I never did that again.

Easy solution. Any kids under 14 get charged triple the menu price.

litespeed74: Coming on a Bicycle: This is a Fark
- circumcision
- breastfeeding
* unruly children
- teacher sex
- speed camera
- TSA
- atheism
- tipping
thread. Please post accordingly.

You forgot cyclists hogging the road threads.

I stand corrected. Or: appended.

"When did such total lack of social consideration become our sentence? "

It's not. You just took a rare problem and chose to whine about it as if it were the norm.

"My father informs me I threw a temper tantrum once in public only once. "

Your father was lying.

Always good to hear from the good parents out ther,e because I swaer to God, having a kid apparently makes a lot of people deaf.

Was in an Arby's when a group of teenagers from the local school came in to eat. One of them would let out a scream about every 30 seconds. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" He was literally acting like a 3-year-old begging for attention. His "friends" seemed to ignore his behavior; one of them should have started swatting him on the nose with a newspaper.

I have no experience raising children but some of the ones I come across in thrift stores I could very well drop kick.

When my kids misbehave, I throw them out myself....

Kids are bad for business. Period.

/See what I did there?