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Next section will be work related complaints if you don't want to read you can stop here and resume your life!








/rant on

So.. I must ask, WTH is up with today's children? Even worse, WTF is with parents today with young children?! While working at a toy store I've seen a lot of /face palm moments, I have laughed at little kids crying over nothing, groaned over spoiled brats getting their way and shaking my head at the parents afterward. What is going on as of late? Whatever happened to discipline? Usually the remedy for a tantrum spewing brat was a slap in the head in public. WHAT HAPPENED?!

I get so annoyed over hearing a kid cry, groan, scream, or what have you just because they want something. What's worse is that they will not let up until they are acknowledge and by then, they are given a toy to shut them up. Bribery..? Really? Kids are getting to be more crafty, do these people not see this? Does this not click in their brains that this is manipulation? I wish I could just possess the parent for a split second and tell the kid to shut up, and if they keep having a fit and embarrass me I'd take them out of the store and they wouldn't get a single thing.

I have seen children wander into the store and,as of late, I have to tell them they can't come in without a parent/chaperon because due to all the floor/backroom work I'm doing alone, I can't watch them and tell them not to do things. (Plus, this was NEVER a babysitting service. ) The #1 answer I get from these children is, "..... is out there [in the food court in front of our store]." ... Lazy parenting, they let their child run off into a store and walk around, do w/e (I end up having to clean up after them because no one is there to tell them to pick up after themselves) AND risk their child getting hurt or kidnapped. Bri-lli-ant.

== Taking a break in this to say: thank you for creating more needless work for me as if my day wasn't already busy! ==

Example: There were 4 kids that walked into the store on my shift. They kept walking around playing with things and running around. Then they had discovered the cursed puppet rack. While I was helping a customer I noticed 1 of the little boys walking back into our store holding one of the puppets. I told him "Don't take anything out of the store please." So he looks at me for a minute and puts it back. Then I see the little girl with them do the same thing, but this time I catch her. I asked her where were her parents she points out at the table in front of our store window. I peer out the window and see the woman (trust me i want to call her far worse but I'll keep it clean) talking to some guy.. looked like she was flirting. I couldn't believe it. I told the kids they can't come back in here without their mother and they left the store. I'm not sure which is sadder, the fact that I had to kick them out, or the fact that she didn't bother watching her own kids and had to have a stranger discipline them.

Many times I wish I could tell the parent to take the kid out the store when they start to have tantrums or crying incredibly loud. (Not babies, these are kids that are at least 3 up to 5+) How difficult is to tell this kid no and if they start up you are going home? Better yet, why not just slap them in the head or spank them in public? Oh.. wait that's right, there's a line. YES a line, between discipline and abuse, and some people are too brain damaged to know when to draw that line or even see it. Back when I was a child (no I'm not that old! ...at least I don' think so. 21 isn't old!!!!) I didn't know what CPS (Child Protective Services) was. I didn't know it existed. I knew if I was bad I was disciplined for it. Nowadays, if you smack your child in the head in public you don't know who will be watching and they'll haul you off to prison for trying to teach your kid not to be a stupid little spoiled brat. WHY. WHY. WHY!

Changing over a little, I look back now at all the spankings I got and how I am today. I can look back and say, my parents loved me they wanted what was best for me. All they wanted was to put me on the right track. Yeah I cried then and maybe even thought they hated me sometimes, but that was never the case. If only all stories ended that way I guess. Too many variables change the end result.

There are so many questions I wish I could ask, so many opinions I wish I could share in hopes of helping, but in the end I just watch. Recently I keep telling myself "Best thing about all of this is when you walk out of this store they'll still be your problem, and no longer mine." I would grin and go back to working.


The world keeps spinning.





/rant off (for now)





For the ones who read through all that mess, leave a comment if you wish. Thank you once again for taking time out of your day to listen to some BAAAAWWWWWWWing girl speak her peace.


On a nicer note, yay! I now have a replacement desk lamp! Also I'm going to try and get some drawing practice in today. Maybe I'll get over my fear of using copics for the first time! Have a good night everyone, Thank you for your sweetness.