Stupid Guest Tricks

Mayonnaise wrote:It also doesn't work if the kids are too close in age. My brother was 2 and 1/2 years younger than me, but the same size (because I was small, not because he was big,) and thus never listened to a word I said. The first and last time my parents ever left me in charge of him, (I was 13 and he was 10) I had to lock myself in my room and call them to come back, because he invited a friend over without permission, and they physically overpowered me when I told him he had to send his friend home. After that we had babysitters for another three years until HE was old enough to not need one, because I couldn't "handle the responsibility." It wasn't till I went off to college and he got bigger than mom that they realized I wasn't just crying wolf all the time.

There's no way I could have made him stay near our parents in a park. I'd be headfirst in a flowerbed, and he'd be in the wind before you could say boo.

More on Topic: we were both "leash kids." The wrist strap kinds. I actually remember mine... the wrist strap was rainbow and the leash part was one of those red translucent plastic/gell curly cords. I was one of those babies that always wanted down, and would never stay in the stroller, so I'm sure it was great for my parents. I don't recall ever really being bothered by it... and by kindergarten it was a thing of the past.

8^)

DisneyMom wrote:Wrist strap lasted exactly 2 seconds on first kid, he would just take it off. Never even tried with second kid. Did have a double stroller up til eldest was about 3, never used it for him after that, just an umbrella stroller for younger one....

My younger brother was a brat who tortured me,about the same age difference as you and yours. We never had sitters after about 2nd grade,
I guess because we were too busy clobbering each other and left the house alone

felinefan wrote:I'm the middle of five kids, and we had to look out for each other--my older brother and sister kept an eye on us three younger ones, whenever mom and dad were doing something. Today, kids seem to be so self-absorbed that a system like that would be a recipe for disaster.

I have this old collection of Reader's Digest humor, and one of the anecdotes was this American woman had a friend in Australia, and she sent this lady in Australia a playpen, because she had a couple of active toddlers. The Aussie lady wrote her friend "The playpen is an absolute godsend. I can sit in it and read all day and the children can't get near me." :D:

Captain C wrote:When did this turn into a thread about leashes?
Oh, and I can totally vouch for queenie82's comment. I want to hear about more stupid Homer Simpson-like parents. D'OH!

mechurchlady wrote:SGT is full of people with ADD, SID and other disorders. We are known for the our record of 8 posts on topic.

niteowl wrote:I agree with all of your other points, but I must disagree with this one. I have taken a number of small children to busy places such as Disney over a period of several decades. You wouldn't believe how quickly a young one can take off when they spot something attractive, and how difficult it is to track them down and retrieve them in a crowded place. Okay, perhaps a parent might overdo it with "kid on a leash, in a stroller, holding a parents hand" as you reported. In my experience, kids with a harness and leash are much more comfortable than having their arms up in the air all day, holding onto an adult's hand. Try to picture yourself being that size, and think about what would be most comfortable for you.

turkeyham wrote:The most unsafest thing I have seen a SG do is: letting their young kids climb on the matal railings and try to climb over the area where the log goes down for splash Mountain. I told a security officer and he kept on telling this lady to get her kid down several times. Security got ticked off after a few times and radio for help. The lady and the family were escourted away from the ride. The railings are not to be climbed, they are there for a reason. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

mechurchlady wrote: I think the dumbest guest recently was at Long Beach at the aquarium and the parents letting kids bang on the glass and the parents holding the kids on the edge of tanks so the kids can see the animals. I live in earthquake prone area and for me I see people on ladders and wonder what would happen if we had the Small One. Parents are at DLR and other area parks but do not realize how easy it is to drop a kid or worse have an earthquake hit and they end up with a hurt kid.