Why do parents let their children run like wild animals in the stores?

Question

I was in the grocery store the other day and three little girls ran right by me and one bumped into me and fell. She started crying and told her mother it was my falt she fell. I am tired of parents not teaching their children manners and how to behave in the store and everywhere else. What about you? Do you let your kids run wild?

Answer 1

Kids will be kids and brats will be brats. It all depends on what the parent teaches. These are the trash of the group, next time trip the little .... I have children and they know how to behave in public. NO child is perfect and neither are parents, but there is a line between parent and dead weight.

Answer 2

I feel the same way you do. When I was little, I was never allowed to behave that way. I never even threw a tamtrum in a store because I knew it wasn't going to be tolerated. I'm also not going to tolerate any similar behaviour from my children (when I have them) either.

Also, letting your child run around crazy in a store isn't only annoying for everyone else, but it's also dangerous. Anything could happen to them when your not watching. What if someone snatched them? When I was little, I was someone tried to snatch me while my dad's hand was on my stroller. He had just turned his head to say something to my mom. Now that's bold!

Oh, and for the few people that said things along the line of kids need to play, well there are times and places for them to play. When your in a store, it's not play time and they need to learn this. The earlier the better.

Answer 3

No, I don't let my kids run wild. You have to teach them right from wrong at an early age. Many parents think it is acceptable for children to "just be kids" by behaving like animals instead of kids. It's time for parents to take responsibility for their poor parenting and teach their children good behavior. If a child isn't taught good behavior at home, they can't be expected to exhibit good behavior in public. They should learn that there are consequences for bad behavior by their parents before the judicial system has to teach them that lesson.

Answer 4

I have 3 kids and they know better than to be rude and misbehave in the store. They know time out is waiting at home if they don't. Most parents don't care what their kids are doing as long as they aren't bothering them. They come from the last few generations where they are taught CPS's number before their own name, number and address. Parents are scared to crack down on their kids. Many have no business with kids. I've gotten after many kids running in the store.

Answer 5

My children do not act like that nor would I ever allow it. People that take their children out and allow then to behave in that fashion are ignorant ! My kids stay right by me. They do not yell and scream, and if they dont use their inside voices, I correct them.

I would have told the mother she was a bad parent for having such heathens. If parents wernt so lazy, and spent time with their kids they wouldnt act that way.

Answer 6

It's so confusing to me why people would let their kids run all over the place. Imagine what their house must be like if they just let their kids run wild and crazy all over stores. All I know is that if I had done that when I was a kid, my mom would have killed me!

Answer 7

I will be the first to admit that my children are not perfect. They get hyper and sometimes they TRY to run. The first sign of this they get put in a shopping cart for the rest of the time we are in the store. They know the rules and if they want to break them then they know the consequences.

I am with you though. It drives me crazy when I see a lazy parent just let their kids run wild through a store. It usually leads to misbehaving in my children.

Answer 8

I have two little boys. They occasionally run ahead of me, but not for long. If there was a collision, you can bet I would have them apologizing to whoever they hit.

Occasionally they do step out in front of someone or cut someone off. In that case, they also apologize.

There is only so much a mom can do to keep up with more than one child, especially. What we can do, though, is to teach our children to be responsible and courteous. Right now, my kids are learning it. They don't remember a lot of the time, but they get reminded EVERY time I catch them.

Answer 9

They let them do it because their little princesses and princes can do no wrong, and if they bump into you, how dare you for getting in their way when they were just trying to express themselves and let off energy!

And I bet half the parents on here who say, My child wouldn't dare! I would never allow it! are the same ones whose kids are running amok in the stores.

Answer 10

Don't even get me started. I hate it, I also hate when they let there kid scream and cry none stop. The parents look at you like you better not say or do nothing to their bad little future inmate.