Feral children and their do-nothing parents

Send em to the Vatican.

chin_grin wrote: »

Squeeze lemon juice in their eyes when the parents aren't looking.

A noble idea.

Personally though, I only usually carry a limited amount of lemon juice around, except on Pancake Tuesday when all bets are off.

For parents who are getting benefits from their children and sending children out thieving have a 3 strikes deal.

Child gets caught doing something wrong, benefits cut by 20% for a year, second time, another 20% and the year ban is extended to a year and a half. 3rd child benefits are taken away either for good or for two/three years.

It would encourage shitty parents to do something. Though there will be problems with good parents who need benefits and children who are just shit but overall it would probably go a long way towards cutting down kids being sent out robbing and the like.

southsiderosie wrote: »

Here's the thing I don't get about the whole ASBO phenomenon: Why is the government stuck with the administrative cost of these kinds of programs because parents won't discipline their kids? Honestly, I never used to be a fan of corporal punishment, but I've seen a few kids who could use a good slap and a ride home in the back of a police car, rather than hundreds of dollars worth of administrative oversight because they are a little bollix.

Ah, I don't think a good slap is the way to go. It's not the little shits' fault they have crappy parents. While a rare percentage of kids are just bad eggs, the major problem is parents who have taught their kids that they are the centre of the world and that their needs, wants and gratification come first.

I say punish the parents. I remember the hand wringing a few years back when the UK (I think) starting punishing the parents of truant kids. The hand wringing was hilarious. I.e. "I try to make him/her go but I can't force them to stay there." If that's the case you either A- have lost control and need to regain it sharpish or B - need to get the kid some help for their behaviour/emotional problems. To my mind, it's that simple. With very few exceptions, I find this looking to blame others for what your kids do/passing the responsibility a really lazy excuse.

A lot of the time though the kids causing problems are not very big ones. Just constant little annoyances, I've ran some out of my garden before - they decided to have a picnic in my front lawn and were stamping their rubbish into my flower bed. Hardly guard calling stuff, but bloody annoying. Same with them banging the door during the day, I work nights so sleep during the day, I don't want my cars washed, I don't want to see your play and I don't care if someone called you a name. Feck off out of my garden. We could have had a nasty accident in our garden there a few days ago because of a very young child out unsupervised. And as for their road sense :eek: it's madness.

This whole "kids will be kids" mentality - yeah YOUR kids, they're not mine.

THEN to add insult to injury some parents decided to have an estate cleaning day and dropped notes into all of the houses saying "We ALL have to live in the estate, so we ALL should clean it" in bright red letters. The day I have kids and let them leave rubbish all over the estate is the day I'll go and clean it up. If you want a tidy estate, watch your filthy children and what they are doing.

In order to get tubes untied/vasectomy reversed potential parents would have to raise 3 guide dogs and a baby orangutan first.
If they can handle that they can handle a child.

Pherekydes wrote: »

Either your kids are "demon spawn " or you're a child -beating monster. Who'd be a parent these days?

Not really. I'm not sure if you're being flippant but there's a perfectly useful middle ground* in between.












*Just don't put a swing on it or teh gayz will get you.

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Throw acid in their little faces

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Some kids do need a bit of a slap or a kick up the hole, as long as they dont have the sh!t kicked out of them its ok imo.

You're getting soft man.

Whispered wrote: »

A lot of the time though the kids causing problems are not very big ones. Just constant little annoyances, I've ran some out of my garden before - they decided to have a picnic in my front lawn and were stamping their rubbish into my flower bed. Hardly guard calling stuff, but bloody annoying. Same with them banging the door during the day, I work nights so sleep during the day, I don't want my cars washed, I don't want to see your play and I don't care if someone called you a name. Feck off out of my garden. We could have had a nasty accident in our garden there a few days ago because of a very young child out unsupervised. And as for their road sense :eek: it's madness.

This whole "kids will be kids" mentality - yeah YOUR kids, they're not mine.

THEN to add insult to injury some parents decided to have an estate cleaning day and dropped notes into all of the houses saying "We ALL have to live in the estate, so we ALL should clean it" in bright red letters. The day I have kids and let them leave rubbish all over the estate is the day I'll go and clean it up. If you want a tidy estate, watch your filthy children and what they are doing.

You just sound like a grumpy fecker.

Nothing wrong with that though.


Could you have seen this coming? Estate agents have a tendency to advertise the age profile of an estate, so if there's a few families with young kids, they'll play that up to other families thinking of buying. Eventually you reach a critical mass of screaming hordes. Obviously they'll sell to older people, and people without kids as well and tell them whatever they want to hear, so you need to ask your questions sneakily.

My parents and siblings are off on holiday with friends and their young family. The kids are mental. And the parents are worse. Everything their kids want they get and their kids always come first. Spoiled feckers they are. I'm glad I'm not with them.