True, you can reason with children over pre school age (before then it's significantly harder) but I believe you compared child rearing to dog training and those are two very different things. Children are not dogs. They defy, they question. And if they're grumpy enough they will make a scene. No matter how well they've been taught there are times when they will do exactly what they want to do.

Which is what the car battery is for.

I read the article you posted and I'm not entirely sure what to think. I avoided shopping with my pre school age children as often as possible. I was fortunate, I have a husband, and a mother who lives close by so getting someone to watch the children while I ran errands wasn't normally an issue, but there are loads of people who aren't so lucky. What exactly are you supposed to do when your 2 year old starts crying on the checkout line with you madly loading a week's worth of groceries onto the conveyor belt and the cashier starts complaining about the noise? Put a gag in their mouth? Maybe the sucker the cashier suggested would have worked, but more likely the kid would have thrown it to the ground and screamed louder. I myself probably would have been so pissed I would have left all the groceries there on the conveyor belt picked up my screaming child and left.

Restaurants and movie theaters are optional activities that you do not have to go to. Errands such as grocery shopping are necessary and sometimes you have to take the rugrats with you.

Do something constructive young man.:p

;) Now where would the fun be in that?

Granted, but you don't have to be a dick when people are annoyed by your screaming brat. I would say that shame and embarrassment are appropriate emotions, but self-righteousness. Puh-lease.

The point of the blog is that these people are ridiculously self-indulgent and delusional - They can't possibly comprehend WHY anyone would say ANYthing when their little precious is just expressing themselves or that their little darling is just doin' what babies do.

I understand that not everyone can get a sitter. The point isn't so much that I can't believe that they took their kid out... For me to assume that no one should bring their child out ever is a bit fascist even beyond my own scope... No, the point is that that person was so self righteously indignant that someone was annoyed by their screaming brat that she actually posted it on Facebook.

I mean - COME ON. NOT EVERYONE LIKES THE SOUND OF YOUR CHILD'S VOICE.


Have a sense of humor, WF!

Sense of humor? Where was the joke?:confused:

yeah my 4 year old can sit through any movie at the cinema and maybe talk like 5 times...this just so happens to come from the parenting she has had thus far. i moved my lips and told her not to talk in the movies because your not allowed. guess what...it worked. it only takes a little effort on your part to make your child behave...otherwise maybe you should try an exorcism or early swimming lessons? lol

You can't laugh at this person's crazy?

http://stfuparents.tumblr.com/post/1...-my-kid-around

i cant because stupidity is sad not funny

I thinks the only people who should be allowed to have babies are couples with super high iqs. having a baby without the required permit would land you in jail and the baby going up for adoption.

it kills two birds with one stone, over population and the kind of bull crap in that post.

agreed but not to your standards...

I have been saying that for years. You and me should team up.


My whole plan was that everyone is sterile from berth and you have to "earn" the right to procreate... At that point, the Man regains his sperm and the Woman her ovaries.

Either that or they always had their sperm/ovaries and they are simply "turned back on."

... In my utopic future.

that would be a tad radical no?

babies are my soup base, dark boys make it spicy.
babies are my soup base, a white one will do nicely.
my secret ingredient is here to stay
so all you little babies... better crawl away!

babies are my soup base, the ribcage is my top hat.
babies are my soup base, I'd like to see you top that!
many people have asked, what's the secret to your soup base.
well young man, it's infants like you, that give it it's taste!

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine; and my reason is, that these children are seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded by our savages, therefore one male will be sufficient to serve four females. That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in the sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.

I have reckoned upon a medium that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, increaseth to 28 pounds.

I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.

Infant's flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful in March, and a little before and after; for we are told by a grave author, an eminent French physician, that fish being a prolific diet, there are more children born in Roman Catholic countries about nine months after Lent than at any other season; therefore, reckoning a year after Lent, the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of popish infants is at least three to one in this kingdom: and therefore it will have one other collateral advantage, by lessening the number of papists among us.

I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, laborers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend or his own family to dine with him. Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants; the mother will have eight shillings net profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.

Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.