stupid parents that piss you off

[Yuko-san]

No this is not about my family, or your own for that matter.

This is about the stupid mothers and fathers that do nothing about their crying infants.

First off I'll point out that I love kids, don't plan on having any, I see adoption as a better option for myself. But I really hate it when parents flat out ignore their crying children, or those that refuse to discipline their child period.

I saw such a couple of parents today at a Joseph Beth book sellers. My mom was checking out, and I'm standing near the entrance waiting for her, when low and behold and infant starts to cry. At first the parents ignoring it doesn't bug me, as both are looking at a magazine their other older child wanted, making sure it was age appropriate. Then the child continues to cry, and their four other kids start clinging onto the pregnant mother. This is when I get annoyed, as not only are these parents flat out ignoring all 6 children, they're looking at, what I early presumed to be a magazine for their oldest child, is actually a burlesque magazine.

Now I have no problem with a young couple without kids buying such things, or an older couple with adult children buying those things. But a young couple in their 20's with six child buying those things I have a problem with.

All the while their youngest is still crying and the mother suddenly shouts out "oh, i like this move, well have to try it after the next one is born".


I about exploded. These weren't a groomed well kept couple of parents, these where your standard red-necked, hill billy, back water, lazy no good kind of parents. I almost kicked the father in the balls and slapped the mother across the face. I wanted to yell at them "before you become even more loaded with kids then you already are pay attention to the ones you have!" or "Baby's can't talk like older children, they cry for a reason! They can't say feed more or I need to be changed."

Luckily at that point my mom was done and we left, the baby's cry's following us the whole way.

It just makes me mad. Idiots that ignore their children can have as many as they want, but a good, loving couple can't even manage to adopt. I would've liked to have picked the baby up and comforted it, because there was no way it's parent where going to. But then I might have been accused of trying to abduct a child or even worse crap.



I'm in favor of a parent licensing act. I know we all have our, annoying baby crying stories, but sometimes it can be way to much to handle.

[Randolf]

I know what you mean. Holy God, do I know what you mean.

Only, in my case, imagine that instead of the parents simply ignoring their child, one parent asking you and your family to "babysit" said child while the other is in prison. Pregnant. And you take the child, and watch over them, feed them, change them, play with them, teach them to walk and talk and all that nice kid stuff.

Because seriously. They damned near abandoned that child in my home. My mother and aunt worked their asses off taking care of the kid, when the father would only show up twice in 24 hours to either drop it off or pick it up at the two further distances apart, leaving us with very few hours of sleep indeed. Due to my mental condition, it's not good for me to get heavily stressed out, otherwise I can be... unpleasant to be around.

Now imagine they bring us another kid. Two weeks old. Pappy runs off and spends his last dime getting staggering drunk, sometimes vanishing for days on end, only to return in a stinking mess with no valid excuse for why he can't compensate us for our efforts.

Now imagine that by the latter end of this two-year babysitting assignment we are literally without transportation, without any money, unable to get any proper rest for any reasonable length of time, growing more and more impatient and snappish with one another. We ran out of milk and diapers, and no one brings us anymore. The two small children are forced to share our abject poverty, spending the winter virtually naked for lack of clean clothes and hungry for lack of milk. And there are no diapers and neither one is potty trained.

In at least one instance, since we had no car and no money, and pappy didn't show up to bring us anything, we went without *anything* for almost ten days. I didn't eat for almost a week. By the sixth or seventh day, the kids literally stopped playing and just sat on the sofa staring at the wall, too weak to do anything.

Finally he shows up. With nothing. But he passes a message to my uncle to come give us a lift. Oh yeah, and he's coming back again in the morning. With the kids.

At the end of this ordeal, my home is in shambles. Much has been lost or destroyed due to child damage, negligence and abuse during that time. I nearly lost my mind and hurt someone I care about deeply. The mother finally got out of prison only to get pregnant with a third child. Thankfully, once she was out, she kept her brood mostly to herself-- we only see them maybe once a week, if that. Although I wish it were a hell of a lot less. The memories still hurt.

Moral of the story: if you'd like my household to babysit for you, we want $1,000 per kid, per day, and God help you if you don't have a fucking limo to take us to the store when we need it.

You have beautiful children, Mr. Pappy. And you know what? I even grew to love them. How could I not? I spent almost two years with them, for the better part of every day. But I will not live in filth, lose my sanity nor starve to death for your convenience.

[Ace of Spades]

 Just goes to show that some people shouldn't reproduce.