Parenting at its finest

[Captain Josh]

Whoo-Boy, I got to see some of this today up-close and personal.

So I'm Parade Crusading at the end of fireworks trying to make every last crazy in the park keep to the right, when this psycho lady (PL, from now on...) comes up to the fellow CM next to me and starts the conniption from hell.

I had no idea what was going on, but man, there it was happening right next to me, and the PL has like 2-3 kids with her, and she's tossing out enough F-bombs and such to cause a war in a small country.

Next thing I know, our lead magically comes up and tells the CM to take a powder to diffuse the situation. After PL leaves, one of her kids stays behind and apologizes to the CM. How sweet, but I feel bad for that kid.

...On the way backstage I see the same lady yelling at security....

[Papa Smurf]

usually as their children are wandering off to pee in the Rivers of America.

When I was in Liberty Sq. Ops it always amazed me when people let their kids pee off the 2nd (or in some cases the 3rd) deck of the riverboat. Gravity and poor parenting at its finest.... ewww

[LegoDan]

today was loaded with stupid parents.

In Miniland USA there was a kid on the other side of a barrier trying to get to a sunken ship and the parent was standing there watching him, i said "hey get out of there you can't be in there," and the parent kinda mumbled a "yeah, get out of there."

I'd like to smack them, our model builders spend hours designing and building to make things look perfect. and parents let their kids f*ck with it. "Ooh lets see if we can rip this pig's head off, it'll be fun!"

[SoarWhoreCoCo]

I was working dock position at Jungle Cruise cold night a WDW JC. A family of 10 got on a boat and left their stoller with all their coats bundled on top of it in the queue. Imagine my suprise when the bundle moved as I approached it...I called our dock lead over and said something was moving under the coats. we moved the coats and found a sleeping five year old asleep under the coats and shivering. We called security and the child was taken to City Hall Immediately (Also found out later that Orange county sheriff and DCF had been summoned by Guest Relations too) when the boat arrived in the dock 10 minutes later the family got off and left the boat and started to head up the ramp B4 they remembered they had forgotten something....They were concerned the stroller was gone because their cameras were on it, when I inquired if they were at all concerned about the freezing sleeping child in it too..they realized they were in deep poop! However in our guests finest moment accused us of kidnapping their child..about that time Gurst relations manager, security manager and Sherrif arrived to tkae the family backstage to city hall. The skippers backstage turned their back to the family as they walked by an booed them. Never got the finale. But Im sure DCF had a few questions.

[Mommytomjm]

OH MY GOSH!!!! As a mother (and an adoptive one who had to fight for the right to be one at that) I am truly horrified at not only the stories I read here, but also the ones I witness every weekend on my own.....

One of my favorites is parents who hit their kids in public....now, I persoanlly don't beleive in spanking, but it is one method of parenting) I just don't want to have to explain to my sweet girl (who is pointing at the kid saying boo-boo, boo-boo over and over) that some mommies and daddies hit their kids and no, mommy and daddy would never hit her, argh......

IF you have to spank your kid, please take them into a private area first!

[PirateJohn]

Worst I've seen is a father that called his four-year-old daughter "bitch" right out in the open. I coulda smacked him.

[Ho-say]

Worst I've seen is a father that called his four-year-old daughter "bitch" right out in the open. I coulda smacked him.

I wouldn't care if it was right out in the open or in the privacy of their hotel room. Children do not deserve to be berated like that. That's when you wish another guest would say something to them, so you can sit back and smile and still not get into trouble :D:

[SRT_GB]

I can't believe this thread has gotten so many posts since I've been gone!

I heard a guy in Fantasia the other day threaten to spank his daughter. I saw him follow her into one of our window displays and I seriously thought he was going to do it. Turned out she was just going after a ball that had rolled into that area and I assume he was following her to make sure she didn't do anything in the window display.

Same day, same store, I finally saw it happen: in the 5 seconds I had my back turned to the cashwrap a kid was pulling down on our queue ropes and the stanchion fell down, missing him by 6 inches. Parents and grandparents were just watching while he was pulling down on the rope and saw the stanchion tipping. Fortunately they blamed the boy and not us. Otherwise I would have been fuming.

[Yfoog]

Last Sunday I finally made it to the park to enjoy the 50th B-day celebration. While entering the queue for Matterhorn (right) a cast memeber was desperately trying to hold on to a screaming boy, about 4 or 5 years of age. It seems the youth chickened out at the last minute and refused to enter the bobsled. The parents weren't about to be denied their fun and continued on into the mountain, leaving their freaked out son on the loading platform. Amazing.

[CerasiJ]

Oh My God! I have read this whole thread and I really, honestly, can't believe that some people are so STUPID. Hitting your children... calling them names? Good Lord! I would NEVER do that to my children! And certainly would't leave them in the hands of STRANGERS! When I am with my two neices, those girls do not leave my side!

Although, the other night my family & I sat down and watched our Disneyland home movie and my mom did have to buy a leash for my (at the time) 3-year-old brother, who was a bit of a terror, and if I recall correctly, punched Brier Bear outside of Splash Mountain in the err... umm... "special area"? Heh heh... :D: