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I'm like Linux Lady. I take no BS from bratty kids (I have perfected the Death Glare of which Llyn speaks) and I take even less from their parents. Here are your choices - either you control your hellspawn, or I will do it for you. Somehow I think you would much, MUCH prefer to do it yourself.

One of the funniest things I ever read on CFH (and yes, I do have a sick and twisted sense of humour) was a story about a guy shopping in the supermarket when a kid ran up and BIT him, hard enough to draw blood. So the guy immediately starts yelling OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! and his friend, who twigged straight away what he was doing, joins in. So a crowd gathers around, and the mother appears - the guy says sternly to her "Maam, your child just bit me". The mother stands there with this "so what" look on her face, and the guy says "I'm HIV positive".

Apparently the entire place went instantly silent, and he picked up his stuff and left, hearing the mother start crying as he did so - he might have felt bad if he hadn't been so totally pi$$ed off, but he'd bet that her kid would NEVER bite anyone again...

You know, until this moment, I didn't realize how much anguish my DH saves me.

These incidents have happened to me.

My DH (who has great reflexes, btw), has jumped in front of me when kids are running around. He tells people I am delicate (I am NOT) but it sure does save me some bruises. He has no problem grabbing kids and telling them to settle down. He's even grabbed a kid and dumped him into his father's lap and told him to watch his kid!

As for kids, clothing and food, as soon as I see a child making a mess with food, I usually move away and make sure the parents know that I do NOT want the child anywhere near my clothing and move to have an obstacle between the child and me at all times. I won't even sit beside a child if they are eating. I've had [censored] in my hair far too many times to even chance it anymore.

Use the word NO more when parents try to pawn off their responsibilities to you.

The only kids I will care for now are my nieces and nephews, as they know the ground rules at our house! They are such good kids in comparison to the hordes of awful ones out there. My DH is fond of saying that he has never changed a diaper and never will. We do not go out with or invite over families with young children.

Here are your choices - either you control your hellspawn, or I will do it for you. Somehow I think you would much, MUCH prefer to do it yourself.

I am with you on this. I don't and will not take [censored] from kids or from their parents. I don't give a sh*t what the parents think. I am not going to be abused, spit on, yelled at or ANYTHING by someone's children.

Linux Lady, That is so cool! I have to remember that line for my "mean old lady" act

If a dog runs up to someone and bites, unprovoked, hard enough to draw blood it usually ends up being euthanized...but little kids can get away with it.

I'd consider calling the police, and filing assault charges (against the parents, of course).

Cindy

Human bites are soooo much worse than a dog bite, that is unless the dog mauls you. my nephew got mauled by a dog and the dog was killed on the spot by the police who came when my sister called them. They literally shot it on the spot.

Sometimes I wish we could do that to kids LOL

It seems like with kids it's black and white. Either they are crazy monsters or well-behaved, well-raised, intelligent kids. It alarms me how wide the gap is between the two.

Nice, fast thinking on that guy's part I think that mother got what she deserved. And, hopefully, no one got HIV.

In this day & age, the guy could have been at risk of getting HIV from being bitten by the kid. Would a parent who didn't seem concerned about her kid biting someone even mention it if her kid were infected?

And, isn't it odd that your kid can run up and bite a stranger and no one gets all that worked up about it -the "kids will be kids, after all" and therefore everyone should forget about it thing. But let your DOG nip someone and all of a sudden there is a dangerous animal around and it should be put down?

Frankly, I think that if a stranger's kid ran up and bit me I would grab onto the kid and hold it until the cops had been called and dragged it off to the hospital to be tested for HIV and other communicable diseases, police reports filed, and my wound had been treated, disinfected, and photographed in the ER.
And if the parents didn't pay my medical bills, the a lawsuit would be filed. And yes, I would press charges against the parents and the child.

It was interesting he went to the HIV bit, but it shoudl have shocked the hell out of the parent and maybe, just maybe, taught her a real lesson. Control your kid and don't just let the "kids will be kids" attitude get out of control.

If I woul dhave done that my mom would have beat me sensless in front of all those people and when I got home.

When my nieces or nephews bit me when they were younger I would bite them back harder (not to draw blood but to make a point) and then tell them why they shouldn't do that. It usually got them message through except for one nephew who I had to resort to habinaro hot sauce (he liked spicey, but not THAT spicy food) and a steran lecture with time out and no tv, phone, games, or toys.. only BOOOOOOKS!

Linux Lady rules!