Jackhole Duh Blogger Gets Pissy About "Non Parents"

Duh rambles on about kids throwing tantrums in stores and HOW DARE non parents get upset over this...we've all heard it before...but here is the twist:
The dude he is ranting about had approached him earlier as a fan of his radio show. Later, when he passed by Mr. Famous Duh there was a kid throwing a fit in the aisle. Fan made a comment re: the kid and Mr. Famous Duh got nasty with him and then wrote this lovely little follow up.

Fuck him and add him to the ranks of moron duh bloggers!

http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/09/15/dear-parents-you-need-to-control-your-kids-sincerely-non-parents/

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Beware the comments - they will make you stabby and/or cause extreme eye rolls.

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attention seeking duh
Grocery stores are designed to send children into crying fits.

And here I was thinking that they were designed for adults to buy food in. Silly me. I see now it's merely an exercise in teaching random strangers a fucking stupid lesson and then blogging about it for backrubs and bellypats.

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"Pro life childfree" is just another way of saying parent minus 9 months.

What I have yet to understand is - WHY do these people need to bring their children with them to the store?

Can't one parent mind them at home?

I don't get it. I really don't. And this guy is praising the Super Ninja Moo he encountered, and dissing the 'fan' who complained about her - and he says that he is a "young father".

OK - where were HIS kid(s)?

Oh right - that's the WIFE'S job!

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Deluded Duh
Maybe I know that my wife has to take the twins with her when she goes grocery shopping sometimes, so she could easily be on the receiving end of your sort of bullying. Maybe I took it personally.

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Shopping for ME!
there I was, walking down the aisles of the grocery store looking for the ingredients for a new chili recipe I wanted to try.

I don't see any mention of other things the family would need. Diapers, formula, any other food, CONDOMS, nope - just some ingredients to make something to fill this chump with MOAR hot air then he already has eyes2

I go shopping - OK I go with one of my friends or neighbors. It's easier that way. Before that even happens -lists are made. Next - sales ads are looked up online and stores are chosen for the respective needed items. We often buy in bulk too and split things.

This is ALL carefully planned and executed. The traffic, the CROWDS. Holy shit there was a line for the lottery ticket machine the other day! eyes2

And this is NOT uncommon here either - everyone does a kind of version of this. Hey, I'm going out - wanna ride with? Or, can I pick you up something? Gas is NOT cheap you know! Carpool. Get organized. If the kids must go - why can't BOTH parents go then - so one can mind them?

Dope dealers and half senile Seniors are more organized than this clown eyes2

With all that chili he's eating - I bet he's one of those pigs who farts freely in public too.

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jezebel_daisy
Beware the comments - they will make you stabby and/or cause extreme eye rolls.

You weren't kidding about that. One of the comments said that non-parents can't tell the difference between good and bad parents. Really? This is the same moron who will let their spawn run wild, scream, cause property damage, etc, and they aren't a bad parent because "It's just so hard". I try really hard not to judge, but when I see a kyd acting like a bonobo in the middle of a bath salt induced rage over a candy bar and Moo and Duh are too busy playing Candy Crush or Mafia Wars or whatever shit they are doing instead of watching Bubbles I think I should get the benefit of the doubt that you're not good at being a care giver.... Sorry, had to listen to a bunch of screamers at work today, and I guess this one hit home.

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jezebel_daisy
Fuck him and add him to the ranks of moron duh bloggers!

Madam, I accept your challenge! :jump

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He's a fucking Buzzkill wannabe....

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Buzzkill's fanboy
I heard the kid screaming from a distance; the whole store heard him. It was a temper tantrum, a meltdown, a hissy fit — it happens. Toddlers are notorious for losing their cool at the most inconvenient times. Nobody likes to hear it, but it happens. You’re out running errands with your little guy, everything is fine, and next thing you know he’s in full-on rabid poodle mode.

This is why you leave the ugly little fucks at home in the first place.

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Pull out that large glass sound proof aquarium you carry around and stick your kid in it so nobody can hear him shriek? That’s a possibility, but the logistics don’t always work.

No, but there is that tried-and-true method of Hand, meet Ass

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Slightly more realistically, the peanut gallery probably expects you to drop all of your groceries and immediately run into the parking lot, so as to save them from having to deal with the spectacle. But it’s not always that simple; maybe you don’t have time to shut down the whole operation just because Billy’s gone nuclear.

Yeah, because that's most parents did when I was growing up...my parents certainly would not have let me go nuclear...they would have been too embarrassed. Nowadays, breeders just let the show go on in hopes of sympathetic doe eyes and udder rubs.

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Dumbass Duhdy
I’d met you a few minutes earlier. You told me you were a fan. We spoke for a moment, you seemed nice enough. Then we crossed paths again there by the beans and the screaming toddler. I guess you thought we were friends, you thought you could confide in me your deepest thoughts. You glanced toward the mother and the kid, then at me, rolled your eyes and said in a loud voice: “Man, some people need to learn how to control their f**king kids.” The lady could definitely hear you, but I guess that was your intention. You had this expression like you were expecting a high five. “Yeah, put it here, dude, you really told that young mother and her three year old off! Nice!” Is that how you thought I’d respond? What is it about me that made you think I would react that way? You’re the second stranger in the last few months to say something like that to me about a mom with a tantrum-throwing toddler.

Gee, douchewaffle, maybe these people have a point? Toadlers need to either be controlled at all times while they're out in public, or they need to stay the fuck home until they can act like civilized human beings!

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Tell you what, Matt, I’ll continue to be tolerant and understanding toward parents struggling with kids if y’all will do me the courtesy of no longer rudely demanding to know why I chose not to have kids and stop telling me I’m selfish, immature, and don’t know what “true love” is because I’m not a parent. Also, kindly stop prefacing statements of personal ethics with “As a parent I would/would never…” as if those of us without children are incapable of empathy or morality. kthxbai

Amen, sister! hankyou

I couldn't read the rest of the comments...I'm still in a good mood after my class with that sexy German professor and I don't feel like ruining it by reading that tripe.

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Why live in a fishbowl, when you could be swimming in the ocean?

"She, and all other rabid breeders, are like crabs in a bucket headed to Red Lobster. When they see a smarter crab escaping, they try to pull it back in." - Miss Hannigan

"Yeah, that's what family is about - guilt tripping people into cleaning up someone else's mess." - mrs. chinaski

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He's also one of those fucktard anti-vax morons.

Why the sudden explosion of numbers of dumb ass duh bloggers? Or was I too oblivious all this time?

Yeah, a real breeder circle jerk.

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jezebel_daisy
He's also one of those fucktard anti-vax morons.

Is that town in North Carolina still quarantined due to the measles outbreak? If so, can we send this fuckcicle there?

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Why live in a fishbowl, when you could be swimming in the ocean?

"She, and all other rabid breeders, are like crabs in a bucket headed to Red Lobster. When they see a smarter crab escaping, they try to pull it back in." - Miss Hannigan

"Yeah, that's what family is about - guilt tripping people into cleaning up someone else's mess." - mrs. chinaski

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Oh please.

as a restaurant worker I have the chance to see good and bad parenting every day. Just last night I waited on a nice PNB couple with two kids who demanded to see the manager when the breeders next to them did nothing to stop their spawn from crawling over the booths and jumping up and down in the aisle next to the PNB table. Mom's exact words were "will you please get your manager? The angry glares I'm giving these people aren't working." Dad said "these people are ridiculous. When our kids were smaller and we went out, we'd request a booth and sit on the outside so the kids were contained. They were never able to get up and run aroun like that." Mom chimed in with "and we always brought a toy or coloring book to distract them. And obviously we just took them outside if they acted up." I told them I rarely saw parents take fussy kids outside and they were horrified.

My other recent PNB award goes to a lady whose kid started whining for iced tea when I mentioned we had it. She told the kid "no" and then said "as a parent, it's good for me to practice saying 'no' periodically. She doesn't need the iced tea...she'll be fine. Oh and yesterday I was grocery shopping and mistakenly put my basket down in the middle of an aisle and a kid tripped over it. I immediately apologized to the kid and her mom. PNB mother waved me off and said "she's fine. she wasn't watching where she was going. You have nothing to apologize for."

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felisdomestica
Why the sudden explosion of numbers of dumb ass duh bloggers? Or was I too oblivious all this time?

They think they can make money at it.

They're avoiding the wife and kids.

They got kicked out of their WOW group or Fantasy Football league.

They hope to meet some Dads on the down low.

Wife blocked all the porn sites.

They think they're Gods because they spawned, it's the typed version of Og! Dick Werks!

They're attention whores.

Like malls, stores are NOT the best places for children to be.

You know what, my friends? In this hole time I'm alive, I've never seen a horrific tantrum. It's just weird. Maybe I'm not going to the right supermarket. Or maybe it's my timing. Or maybe there are parents who can control their children. He's an idiot if he's expecting everyone to rub his head and say 'it's hard right?' Keep your child's tantrum's at home 'cause we do not want to witness their behavior issues.

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"Don't you know how to deal with children?!"
"I don't like animals who act on instinct."
I think you're on to something Akihiko.

Yyyeah.

This story is just as believable as the WalMart pink headband boy one.

I'm calling :BS

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milenascarlet
You know what, my friends? In this hole time I'm alive, I've never seen a horrific tantrum. It's just weird. Maybe I'm not going to the right supermarket. Or maybe it's my timing. Or maybe there are parents who can control their children. He's an idiot if he's expecting everyone to rub his head and say 'it's hard right?' Keep your child's tantrum's at home 'cause we do not want to witness their behavior issues.

I've not seen many full on meltdowns, aside from my half brother, who is autistic. But my dad and his moo had the good sense not to take him to places that would be overstimulating and cause him to scream and throw himself on the floor.

What I see more often is just kids whining and whinging or if there are multiple kyds about, running around the store and getting in everyone's way, and you do get screaming baybees a lot.

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Zzelda
What I have yet to understand is - WHY do these people need to bring their children with them to the store?

Can't one parent mind them at home?

I don't get it. I really don't. And this guy is praising the Super Ninja Moo he encountered, and dissing the 'fan' who complained about her - and he says that he is a "young father".

OK - where were HIS kid(s)?

Oh right - that's the WIFE'S job!

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Deluded Duh
Maybe I know that my wife has to take the twins with her when she goes grocery shopping sometimes, so she could easily be on the receiving end of your sort of bullying. Maybe I took it personally.

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Shopping for ME!
there I was, walking down the aisles of the grocery store looking for the ingredients for a new chili recipe I wanted to try.

I don't see any mention of other things the family would need. Diapers, formula, any other food, CONDOMS, nope - just some ingredients to make something to fill this chump with MOAR hot air then he already has eyes2

I go shopping - OK I go with one of my friends or neighbors. It's easier that way. Before that even happens -lists are made. Next - sales ads are looked up online and stores are chosen for the respective needed items. We often buy in bulk too and split things.

This is ALL carefully planned and executed. The traffic, the CROWDS. Holy shit there was a line for the lottery ticket machine the other day! eyes2

And this is NOT uncommon here either - everyone does a kind of version of this. Hey, I'm going out - wanna ride with? Or, can I pick you up something? Gas is NOT cheap you know! Carpool. Get organized. If the kids must go - why can't BOTH parents go then - so one can mind them?

Dope dealers and half senile Seniors are more organized than this clown eyes2

With all that chili he's eating - I bet he's one of those pigs who farts freely in public too.

Personally, this free farting pig tries to wait until there's a kid in line with my ass.

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Passive Aggressive
Master Of Anti-brat
Excuses!

As an aside, here's a good grocery shopping tip for the early birds...

Get to the market as frickin' early as you can, preferably as soon as they open, and preferably on a weekday.

6am on a Tuesday, you will so NO brats. This is what I do. AND, you get the benefits of all the mark-downs from yesterday's items that are still good!

Used to go way late at night, but that's now pointless, as they let them stay up until the wee hours.

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craftyzits
Personally, this free farting pig tries to wait until there's a kid in line with my ass.

This is completely acceptable, in fact - praise worthy! wink

Dear Duh,

We non parents have hearing. We would rather not have that hearing assaulted by your fuck trophies. As soon as you learn that your time in public will be a lot easier to handle. In the mean time feel free to get off the internet and prove that you can raise your spawn.




The idiots in duh's comment section seem to forget that spawning is a choice. I really wish it wasn't so tactless to remind them of that.

Just found a thread on Cafemoo about this. Most of the comments are praising the duh.

Yes, moos are that stupid.

"This is when the aforementioned fan loudly said, “Man, some people need to learn how to control their f**king kids.” Matt surmised that the guy looked about 19 or 20 and, with that kind of attitude, was obviously not a parent. It was also obvious that the mama heard the rude comment, so Matt said what any totally awesome, ballsy, knight-in-shining-dad-armor would:

Man, some people need to learn how to shut their mouths, watch their language, and mind their own business."

Lets dissect:

Yes, people need to control their fucking kids. And I'm happy the "mama" heard it. She should have been beating his ass.

We can see that if we have any kind of common sense in a social setting, we are automatically non-parents, thank you for the compliment.

Just because you open your mouth to save people from their own idiotic behavior does not make you a hero, just an enabler and a kiss ass.

Now the fun part..

My responses to his stupid comment to the fan
- no, people need parenting skills before they leave the house.
- I'm an adult so I don't have to watch my mouth. You may be a daddy, but you aren't my daddy.
- I can say whatever I damn well fucking please.
- and the moment that that brat's shrieking struck my temporal lobe was the very nanosecond it became MY BUSINESS. don't provide stimuli in public if you don't want there to be a response.

I'm sure the fan wouldn't have even known this individual was there if her child had been well behaved. All too often they blame the individuals who respond to their miserable public displays and don't take the time to notice that their actions are what CAUSED the response in the first place. Parents are not holy and they do not get a free pass.

**** and did anyone else notice how the fan was immediately labeled child-free without that even being specified?

Ah, yet another duh blogger to snark on. Here we go.

“I don’t owe you an explanation, but I thought I’d offer one anyway. I do this more for your sake than mine. You see, maybe, as you later suggested, I was in a bad mood. Maybe I could have been a bit more polite about it. Maybe I’m more sensitive to it now that I have kids. Maybe I’m just sick of hearing these comments about parents. Maybe I know that my wife has to take the twins with her when she goes grocery shopping sometimes, so she could easily be on the receiving end of your sort of bullying. Maybe I took it personally.”

Or maybe you’re just a shit parent, and that’s why you take it so personally. Maybe, on some subconscious level, you know you totally fail as a parent. Or y’know, maybe you’re just a douche rocket looking to start a fight. ‘Cause that’s what masculine manly men like yourself do.
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Bullying? Come on. As someone who was bullied as a kid – by adult authority figures no less, what this guy did here was nowhere near bullying. Way to attention whore, ass clown.

“Whatever the case, there I was, walking down the aisles of the grocery store looking for the ingredients for a new chili recipe I wanted to try. I heard the kid screaming from a distance; the whole store heard him. It was a temper tantrum, a meltdown, a hissy fit — it happens. Toddlers are notorious for losing their cool at the most inconvenient times. Nobody likes to hear it, but it happens. You’re out running errands with your little guy, everything is fine, and next thing you know he’s in full-on rabid poodle mode. It’s humiliating and emotionally draining, but what can you do? Pull out that large glass sound proof aquarium you carry around and stick your kid in it so nobody can hear him shriek? That’s a possibility, but the logistics don’t always work. Slightly more realistically, the peanut gallery probably expects you to drop all of your groceries and immediately run into the parking lot, so as to save them from having to deal with the spectacle. But it’s not always that simple; maybe you don’t have time to shut down the whole operation just because Billy’s gone nuclear.”

Well, taking your kid out of the store is a good idea. Or into the bathroom. Or wherever else he can scream his lil’ lungs out without shattering the eardrums of the other customers. Oh, and something you should consider. Some people are extremely sensitive to loud noises.

“It wasn’t that simple for the mother of this kid. I finally came across her in the beans aisle. She had a cart full of groceries, a kid riding along, and another one walking beside her. Well, he wasn’t really walking so much as convulsing and thrashing about like he’d invented some bizarre, angry interpretive dance. He was upset about something, from what I gathered it had to do with a certain lucky cereal he wished to acquire, but which his mother refused to purchase. I felt his pain, poor guy. My mom never bought me sugary cereal either — “breakfast candy,” she called it. She used to get us Cheerio’s — “breakfast cardboard,” I called it.”

Baaaawwww. Duhddy never got his sugary breakfast cereal when he was a sprog, which damaged his pweshus self-esteem. So now he probably spoils the shit out of his own kids because ZOMG his meanie head pnb parents made him eat Cheerios!
Hey, it’s possible, isn’t it? He comes off as a whiny asshole with a huge victim complex so no doubt he blames everything that went wrong in his life on his parents or anyone else.

“I felt the woman’s pain even more. She could bribe her kid into silence, but she was sticking to her guns. Good for her, I thought. Sure, if she’d only meet his ransom demands, my bean purchasing experience would be a bit more pleasurable, but I was rooting for her nonetheless. Not everyone felt the same way, apparently.”

Well, clearly she wasn’t trying hard enough. What should of happened was this.
She should have picked Junior up from the floor and said in a firm voice, “No, Bratley. You are not getting that cereal. And if you continue to make a scene, we’re going home and I’m taking all your toys out of your room and there will be no TV.” Then followed through with that threat if he still acted up. Of course, a hard swat across the butt would have helped, too.

“I’d met you a few minutes earlier. You told me you were a fan. We spoke for a moment, you seemed nice enough. Then we crossed paths again there by the beans and the screaming toddler. I guess you thought we were friends, you thought you could confide in me your deepest thoughts. You glanced toward the mother and the kid, then at me, rolled your eyes and said in a loud voice: “Man, some people need to learn how to control their f**king kids.” The lady could definitely hear you, but I guess that was your intention. You had this expression like you were expecting a high five. “Yeah, put it here, dude, you really told that young mother and her three year old off! Nice!” Is that how you thought I’d respond? What is it about me that made you think I would react that way? You’re the second stranger in the last few months to say something like that to me about a mom with a tantrum-throwing toddler.”

And he won’t be the last. Get used to it, pal. Even other parents are getting sick of bad behaviour from brats. Bad behaviour that is due to shitty parents not doing what they’re supposed to do.
Lol. Notice he’s all like, “I guess you thought we were friends, you thought you could confide in me your deepest thoughts.” Yeah, okay, man. You’re totally not exaggerating. I mean, you didn’t just make shit up just to get attention. Nope not at all.
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“Yeah, I didn’t respond the way you anticipated. Instead, I offered my own helpful suggestion: “Man, some people need to learn how to shut their mouths, watch their language, and mind their own business.” You looked at me like I hurt your feelings, then you muttered some choice words under your breath — as cowards are wont to do — and walked away. Later that day you sent me an email, threatening to tell everyone that I’m “abusive” and “crappy” to my listeners.”

Oh, that did not fucking happen. Sorry duhd, but we can smell the bullshit from here.
:BS

“Well, now I’m one step ahead of you. Now, everyone knows about my shameful “abuse.” Let them decide who’s the bully: the guy who vulgarly insults a woman while she’s dealing with a difficult child, or the guy who tells the guy who insulted the woman to shut up and go away?”

Yeah, you give ‘em hell, duh! You so tough ‘n shit! I just know that if a couple of gang bangers hijacked your car, you’d be the big man and fight them off. You totally wouldn’t turn tail and run leaving your wife and kids to fend for themselves.
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“After you left, injury was quickly added to insult when her kid bumped into a display and knocked a bunch of stuff onto the ground. I started to help pick it all up, but she said she wanted her son to do it because he’s the one who made the mess. Touché, madam. Nicely played. A lot of people would buckle under the pressure of having sonny going psycho in aisle 7, while, seemingly, the whole world stops to gawk and scrutinize, but this lady stayed cool and composed. It was an inspiring performance, and it’s too bad you missed the point because your feeble mind can only calculate the equation this way: misbehaving child = BAD PARENT.”

Okay, now I’m really starting to think that he’s either exaggerating or it didn’t happen. Look how he makes himself out to be the hero. Wow, your life must be really fulfilling if you have to go so far as to make up stories like that.

“I’m no math major, but that calculus makes no sense. A kid going berserk at a grocery store doesn’t indicate the quality of his parents, anymore than a guy getting pneumonia after he spends six hours naked in the snow indicates the quality of his doctor. Grocery stores are designed to send children into crying fits. All of the sugary food, the bright packaging, the toys, the candy — it’s a minefield. The occasional meltdown is unavoidable, the real test is how you deal with it. This mother handled it like a pro. She was like mom-ninja; she was calm and poised, but stern and in command.”

Bet you don’t say that about your wife.

“See, I figure there are two types of people who mock and criticize parents whose children throw tantrums in public. The first is — from what I gathered based on your age (you looked about 19? 20, perhaps?) and what you said in your follow up email — your type: the non-parent who thinks, if they ever have kids, they’ll discover the secret formula that will prevent their hypothetical son or daughter from ever crying in front of other people. Then they promptly scrutinize and chastise real parents for not having this fake, imaginary, impossible, non existent formula. This sort of non-parent doesn’t realize that, unless they plan on using a muzzle and a straightjacket, there is nothing they can do to tantrum-proof their toddler.”

Sounds like you know from experience, and I’m not talking about your supposed run-in with grocery store guy. It also sounds like you still think that way. No doubt you criticize other parents, comparing your spayshal lil’ sneuxphlakes to their average kids.

“Fine. Ignorant non-parents, who don’t know what they’re talking about, imposing ridiculous standards on actual parents because it makes them feel superior. I get it. I don’t like it, but I get it. As bad as you people are, you’re not nearly as horrible as the second type: actual parents with grown children who judge other parents, as if they haven’t been in the exact same situation many times. I had an older guy complain to me recently about babies that cry during church. He said: “Back when our children were babies, you didn’t have this problem.” Interesting. Apparently babies didn’t cry in the 50′s. The whole “crying baby” thing is a new fad, it would seem. These folks who had kids a long time ago seem to have a rather selective memory when it comes to their own days of parenting young kids. They also tend to dismiss the fact that modern parenting presents unique challenges, some of which didn’t apply several decades ago. I always love the older folks who lecture about how THEIR kids weren’t as “attached to electronics” as kids are nowadays. That’s probably true, but mainly because, well, YOU DIDN’T HAVE ELECTRONICS. You had a toaster and a black and white TV with 2 channels, both of which were pretty easy to regulate. But, sure, congratulations for not letting your kids use things that didn’t exist. On that note, I have a strict “no time machines or hover-boards” policy in my home. It is stringently enforced. I’m thinking of writing a parenting book: “How to Stop Your Child From Becoming Dependent Upon Technology That Isn’t Invented Yet”

Yes, modern parenting certainly does have its own unique challenges. And you’ll find that out when 15-year-old Junior stays out all hours of the night and when he does come home he’s either drunk or stoned, is failing out of school because he doesn’t go, lies to you about everything, takes the famblee van for a joy ride, steals from you and smacks you around. And just you wait for the day when the cops show up at your house, or worse, his drug dealer friends. Trust me, you’ll definitely prefer the cops.

“Anyway, listen, I don’t think you, of all people, should be telling other folks what they “need to learn.” If you just shut up and paid attention, you’d realize that YOU could learn plenty from mothers like the one we both encountered yesterday. I know I have lots and lots to learn as a young parent, which is why I’m always prepared for a more experienced parent to take me to school and teach me a thing or two, even if they don’t know they’re doing it. Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do. You shouldn’t scrutinize parents when you aren’t one, for the same reason I wouldn’t sit and heckle an architect while he draws up the blueprint for a new skyscraper. I know that buildings generally aren’t supposed to fall down, but I don’t have the slightest clue as to how to design one that won’t, so I’ll just keep my worthless architectural opinions to myself.”

Uh, wait a minute! Hold the phone! Let’s rewind to the previous paragraph, shall we?

“As bad as you people are, you’re not nearly as horrible as the second type: actual parents with grown children who judge other parents, as if they haven’t been in the exact same situation”

And yet in the very next paragraph he says he’s okay with experienced parents “taking him to school and teaching him a thing or two.” So, which one is it? Do you want older parents to shut up or give you advice?

“That’s a strategy you might consider adopting.
In any event, it was nice meeting you.”

I’ll bet you anything he’s not as famous as he likes to think he is.

Honestly, I don't think that misbehaving child = bad parent. I think misbehaving child + parent who does jack shit about it = bad parent. And guess what! I'm not the only one Duhdy.

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redheadedharlot
As an aside, here's a good grocery shopping tip for the early birds...

Get to the market as frickin' early as you can, preferably as soon as they open, and preferably on a weekday.

6am on a Tuesday, you will so NO brats. This is what I do. AND, you get the benefits of all the mark-downs from yesterday's items that are still good!

Used to go way late at night, but that's now pointless, as they let them stay up until the wee hours.

Since my mother pinned a kid to a magazine rack with her wheelchair we have started shopping only at 6:30am. It's wonderful. The floors have all been buffed and shined over night so she roles like a champ, there are literally only ten other people milling around the whole place and NO KIDS! It's like a dream come true.