So my first addition to this is going to be somewhat like a rant, I’d like to fill it with nice things like bunnies and rainbows, but here we are.
So I was sitting at a local cafe that I frequent a bit as the food is pretty good, the coffee is better than average and the staff always have a nice smile to go with their mediocre service, I’m easily pleased, but I digress. Anyway, I was enjoying my manly soy latte and eggs benedict with a casual read of the newspaper and in walks a man and his lad, possibly 7-8 years old, the lad, not the man. The waitress greets them at the door and gets ready to seat them, the boy is carrying a digital camera and points it at the waitress, she inquires “are you going to take my picture?” the little boy replies loudly and in a somewhat retarded voice (I’m not sure if he was,or what the PC term for retardation is these days,but I’m going for this.), “No, I’m videoing you!” she laughs a bit and asks politely to please stop she doesn’t want to be videoed, he laughs his little mongo laugh and still keeps videoing her, she asks again and he still laughs and keeps at it, meanwhile dad who clearly has passed down the retard gene looks on with a dumb laugh and twinkle in his eye as his special little guy manages to do two things at once without falling over or spontaneously combusting. The waitress steers them to a table, hands them their menus and bails as quick as she can.
Now I know what your thinking, it was only a little kid playing with his new shiny camera wanting to have some fun, and it’s not like he was filming her in her underwear retrieving the paper from the front lawn and putting it on Youtube for the world to see. The problem is he was asked several times to stop and he didn’t, and his father, who obviously didn’t want to break poor Timmy’s spirit by scolding him publicly,either that or was too distracted by shiny things and lights to do anything about it, but look like the reason IQ tests should be taken to breed.
After a while I’m only assuming his mother strolls in and sits with them, she greets wee timmy and starts a conversation with dad. They weren’t that far away that I couldn’t help but hear parts of their conversation, it was mostly typical ramble that most folks do over breakfast, the noticeable part was wee shining beacon of family bliss was commenting on everything they said adding his two cents, they look partly annoyed, but never said a word, which in turn made the young lad turn it up a few decibels each time he spoke, loud enough that it made everyone in the cafe, staff included look over each time another barrage of useless dribble came out of timmy’s mouth, still mum and dad ignored him.
Now I don’t expect them to beat him with his own recently yanked off arm, but ffs, please have some manners and have the young lad turn it down a notch or just don’t bring him into public until he is trained.I had a fairly strict upbringing where if you spoke out of turn or acted badly you were given a beating, It wasn’t really the best way to deal with it, nor would I ever enforce such things.
I see it a lot, parents just letting their kids run wild in public, breaking stuff, screaming stupidly loud and being rude to everyone they encounter, I don’t blame the kids, they aren’t to know that behaving like a poo throwing monkey isn’t the way to act in public if their brain dead parents are either too stupid or don’t care enough to do anything about it.
Is it really that hard to teach your child manners and social skills? I am a parent and have also helped raise step kids, friends kids and younger siblings, it’s not that hard, kids mostly appreciate boundaries and order.
So that’s all I’m going to say on that matter, in the end it did turn into a rant, I promise next time I’ll post something less ranty, maybe a story about coke and hookers 
Brett
