AARRGGG!!! Shut your kid up.?

Question

I can not go anywhere outside of my house without having to put up with someone's misbehaving child. Why should I have to tolerate screaming, yelling, and crying from someone else's kid. We need places that are deemed kid-free. Maybe then I go to the theatre and can watch a damned R rated movie at 11:00 at night without someone's cranky toddler interrupting it. Perhaps even shop without having to tune out the whining kid whose parent won't buy them a toy they want. Control your kids!!

Parents....it is your fault they act this way. Plus, why is there a kid at the movie theater that late. At that point, it is your fault, not thiers that they are crying. They should be in bed.

No more comments about when I have kids. I don't want them and will not have them. My boyfreind is getting a vasectomy. No comments about this either, we ARE getting married, and are old enough to know what we want. 24 and 30.

Answer 1

Try to look at this from my point of view:

(This really happened about a month ago)

I am a stay at home mom of three sweet kids ages 7, 3, and 2 months. My husband works long hours and I'm usually stuck at home all day with the kids because we only have one car. To top it off, baby #3 was a C-section, so I'm just recovering from surgery. One day I decide to drop my husband off at 7am so that I can take the kids out to do something fun for the day, since they've been cooped up all week in the house. We decide to go to the mall. I get into the first store at the mall, and there is a kid's play area. My daughter who is 3 wants to play, he brother who is 7 doesn't. She startes whining, he won't budge. The baby is woken up by his sister's whining, so he starts screaming full blast (hard to fault him, he's only 2 mos old and just got woken up). So I quickly rush everyone to the checkout, and quickly pay. It took us 30 minutes to get to the mall, and in our 10 mins there, I can see this isn't going to work. So as quickly as I can, holding a crying newborn, pushing a stroller, and trying to keep a hand on my 3 yr old, I head for the closest exit. Everyone is staring at me, shooting me dirty looks. One older lady says loudly, "I can't believe she has that poor baby out like that." Other people mutter under their breath because they don't want to hear my children. Guess what, at this moment, I don't either. Did I have any idea that this would happen, no, of course not, or we wouldn't have driven an hour round trip for 10 minutes at the mall. I just wanted to get out of the house for a little while. I'm still in pain from the surgery, and carrying the baby, the shopping bag, and pushing the stroller is not helping, but I don't have anyone to help me right now. We can't afford a sitter, and even if we could, I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving a baby that young, plus he still nurses, making it impossible for me to be away from him.

So what should I do? Sit at home until my kids grow up? The thing about being out in public is that we have to share space with others. When I take my kids out, they might overhear people cussing, or teens making out, plenty of things that I would rather not subject them to, but guess what, unless it's happening in my house, I have no say so over what other people do. Children are people, they are not nusinces, and they have just as much right to be in a public place as anyone else does.

Answer 2

I was quite close to reporting this post for neither being a question nor an answer, but I figured I'd give you a chance, and carefully read your rant until I found "Why should I have to tolerate screaming, yelling, and crying from someone else's kid." We'll ignore the fact you omitted the question-mark, and treat this part of your rant as the question part I should be addressing.

Here is my answer:

Because you haven't YET figured out which places you can go where children are prohibited. You have somehow allowed yourself to incorporate "children should be seen and not heard" as a component of your world-view, and allow this to affect you negatively. Of all the things that could annoy you in your daily life, a fussy-child - especially someone else's fussy-child - should not be on the list.

The next time you are annoyed by an obnoxious child, remind yourself that at the end of the day, you are not going home with that child. That should help you feel better.

Answer 3

Don't forget that you were a child once and from the comments on your question and posts, I bet you were a screamer and a cryer. You will never get away from the noise of children if you live around other people. It is just the way it is. The parents are only at fault because they live or shop near you.
You are a pathedic human being if you think that you have rights to peace and quiet outside of your home. Your home is the ONLY place where you can have it the way you want it.
Control yourself and go home!

Answer 4

Perhaps the "little whining child" IN YOU needs a hug today. Perhaps you shouldn't venture out of your house during your time of P.M.S.
Parents cannot control every single thing their kids do or say. Obviously you have no kids of your own, and if I were you, I wouldn't plan on ever having any. Your capacity to empathize is sorely lacking. Don't you realize that once upon a time YOU were a kid, yourself? (Seems to me you STILL ARE). Kids will always be a part of the world we live in, so if you don't like it, why don't you be the first to fly a rocketship to one of the more-distant uninhabited galaxies and find a suitable planet by yourself to live on.

Answer 5

i agree with you...the screaming misbehaving kids have taken over because the parents let them...i do not even like children any more because of this...i work in a retail store and the things untended children do is awful...the cost the store plenty of money by ruining things..and in restocking. i am all for the kid-free zone and i bet a lot of adults are, too....and another thing i hate is being a moderately priced restaurant and having the kids running around everywhere....who wants to eat when the kids are jostling the table and playing tag in a restaurant??

Answer 6

I can understand the R rated movie part, and places kids shouldn't be, but the store, and out in public? I'd like to see you try to control kids! You obviously don't have kids, or you'd know how hard it is to calm a kid down when he doesn't get his way. I don't let my kids run around out of control, but I'm surely not going to beat them to settle them down in order to make others happy, I do my best to quiet them when they get loud. Do you think parents enjoy screaming, crying kids? Why don't you just stay home if you don't like it? I'm not keeping my kids locked up at home because of miserable b*tches like you. Deal with it!

Answer 7

I do agree that some parents take kids places that are not appropriate. Even those that take their 4 yr old to a PG-13 movie. There is an age restriction for a reason.

Answer 8

Ditto! It may be sweet music to the ears of parents, but, to others, its bloody annoying! Even worse when it happens on an airplane flight. I was on a flight when the mother let the kid scream for 4 hours. No apologies to flight attendants, or passengers! Child-free flights would be great!

Answer 9

I agree that kids should not be in an R-rated movie at 11pm, but there is no question here. However, here is an answer: you sound like a cranky toddler yourself. Put yourself in the parents' shoes. Control yourself!

Answer 10

Look, you need a reality check. Im assuming you are not a parent. If you are, youre a bad one. Were you a perfect child? News flash, no one is perfect, especially children. Maybe there should be places deemed b*tch-free.