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So-called "parents"
Dec. 6th, 2002 03:04 pmGrrr!
I just got home from the store. While I was in the check-out line, the next checker over (the store manager) got on the PA system to announce a lost girl.
She was holding the girl who couldn't have been more than 4. And doing a pretty good job of comforting the scared kid.
Then the mother showed up (with 3 other kids). She was *angry* at the little girl for getting lost. And I and several other folks nearby could hear her laying a guilt trip on her daughter for *embarrassing* her.
Mind you, I know from *experience* how hard it is to keep track of *two* little girls. But that mother gave off vibes to the effect that she was more upset about having been called to the front of the store to get her daughter than about her daughter having wandered off.
I wasn't the only one giving her *careful* attention as she led her kids off. In fact the lady running my checkstand was most definitely giving her the "evil eye"...
What is it with some parents?
I can understand being frazzled at having to deal with too much at once. But being upset at being *embarrassed* by losing track of the kid? And blaming the *kid* for it?
I just got home from the store. While I was in the check-out line, the next checker over (the store manager) got on the PA system to announce a lost girl.
She was holding the girl who couldn't have been more than 4. And doing a pretty good job of comforting the scared kid.
Then the mother showed up (with 3 other kids). She was *angry* at the little girl for getting lost. And I and several other folks nearby could hear her laying a guilt trip on her daughter for *embarrassing* her.
Mind you, I know from *experience* how hard it is to keep track of *two* little girls. But that mother gave off vibes to the effect that she was more upset about having been called to the front of the store to get her daughter than about her daughter having wandered off.
I wasn't the only one giving her *careful* attention as she led her kids off. In fact the lady running my checkstand was most definitely giving her the "evil eye"...
What is it with some parents?
I can understand being frazzled at having to deal with too much at once. But being upset at being *embarrassed* by losing track of the kid? And blaming the *kid* for it?
