kids will be kids...or are we as parents just stupid?
as my daughter and i were walking out of her school today, this kid was spinning in circles with he backpack in the air. totally oblivious to the world around him. he happened to smack another little girl in the eye with the back pack. he smacked her pretty good, and she started crying. the twit mother was standing right next to this kid, she laughed and said "kids will be kids". the mother of the little girl who was hit, wasn't to pleasant about it, but we were in a hurry and left, and i really don't know what happened after that.
but it got me thinking...."kids will be kids". i see it so often on here, i hear it so often in real life. what is that? is it like a defense mechanism? we have to blame our own kids for our poor parenting?
it's right up there with "at some point your kids are going to do what they want". so, that means we shouldn't teach them now? i just don't get it. no wonder our youth is so screwed up....just look at the parents.
yes, kids will be kids. but that is why we are here. not to make lame excuses for them, but to guide them.
i still cannot believe that mother just stood there and laughed at that crying little girl. what a shit head parent. she's lucky it wasn't my kid, honestly.
just my thought of the day.
i save animals.....because they have proven to me they are better than people.
Yeah if that were my kids the other mom would have been paying for a doctors visit. Thats just negligent to be standing there watching your child do something like that and then act like she did. I would have been pissed.
So the boy was spinning and hit the girl or was the boy spinning and the girl didn't see him and walked in his "circle" area. I guess I am confused.
Kids will be kids...yes. However I firmly believe that it is our JOB as parents to guide and teach our children how to behave properly, especially when in public. Personally I think the mother should have made him stop, and act proper, but that'sjust MPO. I do believe some parents use the "kids will be kids" as a cope out to parenting, though.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
---Umberto Eco
I would have put an end to that right away but had I missed it or whatever I would have been embarrassed. I would have apologized and asked the little girl if she were ok. I would have made sure that there was no damage.
Kids WILL be kids and they will do goofy things, how we handle them and how they fix those things is what makes the difference. Saying kids will be kids is not taking responsibility and fixing the situation. What they learn from those mistakes is what is important!
i never said it wasn't. the point was, he was at school, with a lot of other people around, school had just let out....both parent and kid should have been respectful of the other people around.
Quoting Idiosyncratic:
well, a kid spinning around in circles is not exactly unusual kid behavior....
i save animals.....because they have proven to me they are better than people.
I've been in the situation where my son was doing the same thing spinning his backpack around I told him to stop because he might hit someone then he had to do it one more time and did hit someone I used this as a teaching moment . I said see you hit ____ now tell him sorry and put your backpack on your line" he didn't hit the boy hard but felt bad about it and learned not to do that any more
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on Feb. 9, 2010 at 5:16 PM