Abusive Parents

[leftcoaster]

"I've spent alot of money to bring you here, so you WILL have a good time."

LOL. I'm just waiting to hear someone say, "This is the happiest place on Earth, so smile, dammit!" :roll:

Pleae post it when you do. I don't expect it'll take that long. :D

[kimpossible33]

(Sigh) Baby sign language is the modern pacifier. Heh heh.

If a baby is really uncomfortable or in pain and you pop a soother in their mouth, the'll spit it out and keep crying. But the rest of the time that they don't, they just want something to suck on, in which case I think pacifiers are kind of a way of telling your baby they can scream, fake, cry, or whatever to get what they want. (Maybe I'm exaggerating but that's just my opinion.)

I think it would be intersting to see the dolls on IASW screaming instead of hearing that dumb song over and over. It's like Chucky, the live performance.

[SToursBarbie]

I just wanted to add that if you see a child being abused physically and you don't report it. It is just as bad as if you are doing it by letting it continue. Kids cannot defend themselves so sometimes it takes another adult to step in and help them out.

As for the child screaming issue... I have two children with Aspergers and I am sorry if my kids get on your nerves on the slow rides. Their ideal of enjoying a ride is to scream when they get excited. Every child is different and every child needs different parenting so for one person to tell another how to handle there child in certain situations is just ridiculous.

SToursbarbie

[TheManator]

I pray my son doesn't get that way when he gets older (only 11 months now) when we head out on Disney trips. Is putting tape over a child's mouth still considered child abuse?

[Yfoog]

Admittedly being on an airplane is a special case, but everywhere else -- restaurant, movie, concert, whatever -- there's a simple solution for the parent: pick up the crying child and head out the nearest exit! It's called "being considerate"! Yes, the parent will miss the end of the show, but it's better than the rest of the theater missing it.

So true....I worked at a movie theatre to help pay for college. I couldn't count the amount of times we had to ask a parent to please leave the auditorium with their crying child so as to not disturb the rest of the guests. Some times we'd bribe the whole party with free passes just to leave. However, we just laughed at people who complained about crying infants during a "rated G" film.
For nice restaurants and movie theatres there is one solution that is guaranteed to work. It's called a babysitter.

[manderson6309]

The only problem is that when you let security know about the issue they take forever to get to the location.

Exactly my pain. When we have a group of teens trying to smoke weed on our ride, or we have a parent who is intoxicated, we send them into the ride so that they are temporarily detained while we call security over. However, our rides are approx. 2-4 minutes long in Fantasyland Classics, so if security decides to take their precious little time, we can only 'trick' the guests into riding the ride over and over again so many times...

As for abusive parents. It hurts my heart so much to look at a little girl standing ready to hop onto Pinocchio's Daring Journey and I can see clear bruises up and down her arms and legs and she has a black eye. I guarantee taht if I were to ask the parent what happened, they'd respond with a generic abusive parent/spouse response: "She fell down the stairs!" "Car Accident!" "blah blah blah" "exuse exuse" "lies lies lies!!!"

[abc]

^just a friendly warning, you musn't let any drunk person ride a disney attraction or vehicle, and if you were to call security while having them ride to have them detained, you will likely get in trouble.

[Main Streeter]

I've always had intoxicated guests escorted out of the park - asap. Security shows up fairly quickly once they hear the term "drunk."

[manderson6309]

^just a friendly warning, you musn't let any drunk person ride a disney attraction or vehicle.

I usually don't realize they are drunk until I have already dispatched the car and smelled it as they pass. Detaining them in the car: never actually happens. And we can't confront them if they are intoxicated, so how do we kick them off the ride? Isn't that a catch 22? BTW...i usually just call the lead and tell them where they are heading afterwards! We can usually see them and watch their direction.

[Show Support]

I'm sure all of you at one point have seen those parents with their kids on a leash, yes? My opinion is, if you cant control your kid without a restraint of some kind, you have no business taking them to a place like Disneyland!! Am i right?