I take kids over adults anyday.

This morning I'm standing in the line at the staff canteen and a woman comes up behind me with her daughter, about 2years old and her mother. Cute little girl, I thought. Anyway, little girl decides she doesn't want to stand, she wants mommy to lift her up and mommy is not having it. Little girl starts to cry and whine. Her mom is ignoring her, fine, crying kids don't bug me at all. Poor little kid gets even more miserable and starts to cry even more, still not a bother to me, kids cry alllll the time.

I was quite fine until this woman comes up and starts to taunt the child, I suppose in an effort to get her to stop crying. But lord, she is the one I wanted to turn around and slap and tell her how annoying she is and she should stop the stupidity this minute! Here she is telling the child "puppy a come, puppy a come", I suppose the kids is afraid of puppies, so she starts to cry even more. The mother, quite sensible so far, says 'now she going to want to come up even more' i could hear the frustration in her voice. The same blasted woman, clearly could not get the hint and continues 'i gonna call Ms.____ make she come beat you" and she goes on and on and on until the poor mother just takes up the child and walks away. Age is clearly no indication of wisdom, unfortunately.

Some adults can just be so blasted stupid and counterproductive. Its like hearing kids crying and hearing their parents say, 'if you don't shut up i going to beat you' or they beat them in order to try and get them to shut up, or shout at them, tell them even worse things. Wow, great! that worked right? Take up a book or something. If your kid is difficult, go ask someone how to deal with them. Our culture treats kids as though they are second class citizens. Maybe if we treated them more like people instead of thing we own, maybe they would be just a little bit better to handle...just maybe...