Stellar Parenting at Disney

[Syndrome]

Well, technically it was on a Disney cruise, although I've seen plenty of stellar parenting at WDW too, particularly late at night when the poor kids need to get to bed and the parents are obsessed with forcing them to "enjoy" every last minute of the trip.

Near the aft elevators on the Wonder, a dad was crouched down and literally screaming in the face of his three year old boy. Every other word was F-this and F-that, as in, "See what you f-ing did? What do you f-ing want to do now? Do you want to f-ing wait for your mother? You f-ing expect me to stand here and wait for her?"

Granted, three year olds can be hell on wheels. But I am a doctor of psychology, and under no theory (nor practical experience) can I come up with a benefit of screaming obscenities in a child's face as a legitimate long-term disciplinary tactic.

The worst thing of all was that the child wasn't crying. He was just standing there like a deer in headlights...somehow I suspect there were no tears because this is an everyday occurence with Daddy Dearest.

[BRWombat]

Syndrome, I chuckled just now at your sig -- "You! Out of the gene pool!" -- because of how appropriate it would be to yell that at the dad in your story... and also because, honest to God, there is a man at my church whose name is "Gene Pool." Now there's some, um, creative naming by his parents, to say the least.

[Pooh Bear Fan]

By the end of our vacation week, my tongue hurt. I was biting it so often that I thought it would bleed.

Hello, if your child goes to bed at 8pm after getting up at 7, how do think he will handle staying up until midnight?

Small children need their nap and they need their bedtime. It is time for parents to be parents and wake up. :mad:

[KatzOhki]

One could make a dirty joke referencing Syndrome's signature, and BRWombat's friend Gene Pool...... >_>


hehehe :twisted:

seriously tho, yeah kids up late, why do they get HYPER when it's LATE...?

[darph nader]

By the end of our vacation week, my tongue hurt. I was biting it so often that I thought it would bleed.

Hello, if your child goes to bed at 8pm after getting up at 7, how do think he will handle staying up until midnight?

Small children need their nap and they need their bedtime. It is time for parents to be parents and wake up. :mad:

Hell,us old folks could use a nap ourselves.

Granted parents pay beau coup buck for a Disney cruise, but shit,the kids don't know that.

[Taryn]

Want to hear about some GREAT parenting? Yesterday, I was walking over to the Coral Reef to take care of the restrooms. As I was walking, I noticed a woman, maybe 30 feet off, lying on a bench, and kind of jiggling a stroller next to her, that had a howling baby inside of it. I personally would have taken the baby out at that point and tried to comfort it, but I figured, "Hey, it's that lady's kid, maybe he's colicy or something. She'll do whats best for her situation."

So, when I come out of the Coral Reef some 25 minutes later (woman are slooooobs) I saw a rather large crowd of people, including several CMs, surrounding the woman. Someone else was holding her child. A woman near me saw me looking over curiously, so she filled me in: The woman had stuffed the baby IN THE BOTTOM OF THE STROLLER. You know, the net underneath for you to put a purse or a diaper bag in? Yeah, she threw the kid down there.

When a woman approached her, she said "He won't shut up even if you take him out; he's fine" The woman, not believing her, took the kid out and he stopped crying instantly. And he was wedged in there, with his head all shoved into the corner. His cheek was completely red and lined from lying on the net. The woman found a CM who apparently called security, and they almost took the kid away. They didn't. I kind of think they should have...

[Ansem]

...honest to God, there is a man at my church whose name is "Gene Pool." Now there's some, um, creative naming by his parents, to say the least.

A little off topic, I know. If you get a kick out of the name Gene Pool, you'll love one of my mom's professors in college: Harry Balls.

[hobie16]

A little off topic, I know. If you get a kick out of the name Gene Pool, you'll love one of my mom's professors in college: Harry Balls.

I had a DI in Army basic training named Joseph Blowe.

[drabbuh_evad]

I had a DI in Army basic training named Joseph Blowe.

... and I went to high school with a fellow named Richard Wrash. :D:

[APtink]

Taryn, that's too sad. Especially since she purposely put the child there. If that's how she treats the baby in public, I'd hate to see how she treats it in private...yikes!


I saw a good one at the Animal Kingdom a few months ago. I was pushing my stroller behind a double stroller. All of the sudden the sleeping child in the stroller in front of me fell out of the stroller and the person pushing it ran right over the child and kept going. (The child remained sleeping, by the way.) The rest of my party stayed with the child as I ran up to the lady and asked her if she's missing something. When she finally realized yes, I told her he fell out AND you ran over him. It didn't even phase her. She showed no concern what so ever. What is wrong with some people?! She picked him up and headed in line for a show. Never even checked him out.