How thick can you get ?!

Posted on 2006/09/01 06:57:15 (September 2006).

Sorry, folks, for being so brief. I hope for a return to normality soon.

There is one thing I must tell you though. It happened yesterday in the weights room. It shows you how thick they are. I was greeting everyone, and particularly a member of the staff whose wife and little girl were also present. The girl was acting like a little pest, bothering her father while he was briefing a newcomer. I said, in a teasing tone : "what an impertinent little girl" !* You should have seen their faces. Father, mother and daughter stared at me aghast. I could read sheer incomprehension in their eyes. Not the faintest hint of a smile. I felt very lonely...

* Mais quelle petite impertinente !

AH, here you open a tin of worms (as John would say). I have had many discussions with Marta and other friends on how spoiled and badly educated are MOST of today's kids. When I was a kid if I was a bit too lively (read annoying half of the walking world in the vicinity including animals and bugs), I would have probably walked home myself with a sound slap in my face!

Today everything is granted, "poor kid you have to understand him/her", "they have needs", "we tried everytihg"... I have heard these stories a GAZZILLION TIMES....

Well, it's BOLLOCKS!

If you can't educate them there is no shame in saying that, being a parent must be terribly hard, but on the other side if the kid is annying other people (in this case even CLIENTS), then how about doing something for that?

I am with you all the way on this thing, you should have told the instructor that the training hall is not a kid's parking spot and that since you PAY his wage too, then it would be better if the daughter would behave as it is convenient for social interaction and not as if she was in a pigstye (being a pig of course).

AH I said it!!!

Posted by Lox at 2006/09/01 10:00:43.

You are both right, guys.

Bringing up children is very hard - they are individuals with freedom - but they have to know limits. I know teaching mine not to interrupt other people talking is a difficult task, but I am at least trying!

Posted by Nigel at 2006/09/01 16:29:10.

Keep at it! They will get it in the end, kids are kids but they are also intelligent and it's just a matter of being patient maybe... But then again I am the LAST on earth to be able to comment on this matter...

Posted by Lox at 2006/09/01 16:40:32.

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