We could not believe what we heard

Sad huh. It makes me sick how some parents or even grandparents treat children now adays. I was with my son, my mother, my sister her two girls (age 4 and 8) and my grandmother at Olive Garden the day before yesterday and there was a woman with two children and from what we heard her mother and sister were with them and it seemed as the mom of the kids was having problems with the father and she was crying and we didn't hear all of is but all the sudden the grandma was yelling at one of the little boys (he couldn't of been much older then like 7) telling him "Look what you are doing to your mother!!! You are giving her an anxiety attack!! I am going to call the cops and tell them to take you away!!" It was horrible.. Then just got the server to get in on it and asked the server to call the cops..... But the server didn't want any part of it so he just said to the kid"you better listen to them". But it was so sad. To say that to a young child?? I mean come on now! I wanted to b**ch slap that woman.

It seems we both had an experience at Walmart today. I was having a coffee in the McDonald's and this woman,an comes in with her two kids, a little girl probably about 5 and a boy about 8. For openers she is in a foul mood. they go and get their condiments and stuff, they sit beside me and there are about 6 little cups of ketchup , a dozen straws, a handful of napkins, the mother leaves the kids alone to go and get their order, The son decides that 6 ketchups are not enough so he takes his sister over to the dispenser and gets 6 more. 3 each, still not enough he goes back and gets 5 and trys to carry them all back at one time , and of course drops them, he stands there and screams at the top of his lungs Mom I drooped the ketchup, no answer, so he stomps on it and tells his sister to clean it up. I said no you made the mess you clean it up, he turned to me and said "no you clean it up". The mother comes back over and tracks through the ketchup and swears at the kids , the boy turns and looks at me and said it was her fault, pointing at me.The lady looks at me and said have you been talking to my kids. I said yes, he dropped them and stepped on them and tried to make his sister clean it up. I told him that he made the mess he should clean it up. Her answer, "My son is not being raised to clean up a McDonald's", snd she went and got a clerk to clean up the mess her son made. Now there is a message for you and for her dear little son.

You are so right. If we thought everyone who looked different and dressed differently as scary, who knows what people might think of us.

Some people just lack common decency. Theycould even be a bit on the ignorant side as well. There is no excuse except for their own stupidity. What goes around comes around. I feel sorry for the kid that will grow up thinking that type of behavior is normal.

How rude of the parents. Teaching their son to be judgmental. You should not judge a person by the way they look because it not right. People are made differently and by that God loves us equally. They may be imperfect in our eyes but God love and sees them perfectly. Learn How to love your neighbor as you love yourself.

I am sorry for hear that and I think that we cannot judge someone just from exterior. We should educate our children by correct way!

Ya I think her fear was right bcz in past few months we have encountered some very drastic incidents that obviously make us to think like that. Every person in this world is quite afraid bcz we never know what can happen at the next moment of our life. Our life is very unpredictable and full of uncertain risks.

Certainly interesting reading the responses in this discussion. Seems most would agree that it is wrong to teach children to be 'judgemental and non-trusting' of strangers. I guess I have a bit different view. I do not think it is good for the child to be non-judgmental and trusting of strangers. It is also interesting how everyone wants to come down on the lady for judging another person. If you never do the same thing, then you may have a point. There is a point where everyone here will do the same thing. Consider that you are walking out of Wal-mart with your small child and you meet up with one or more of these people who are physically in the way, and second of all seem to want to talk to you:a man wearing a dress two men, one wearing a dress and the two of them are kissing a homeless man with scruffy face, messy long hair and plenty of body odor a woman dressed like a street lady making passes at men leaving the store. Now I hope you were kind and sweet and pleasant to all of these people. If not, what are you teaching your children? Don't judge these people. If you scooted by them, eyes down, mouth closed and walked quickly to your car - you are absolutely judging them and they know it. Look what you taught your child.

I don't understand people that are like that. I'm sure they probably weren't raised that way! I'm the type that would of loudly said "well that wasn't very nice"! The nerve of some people. I feel bad for the guy she was talking about.

u r absolutely right to say so

Yes, that behavior is inexcusable. We should not judge people by how they look. That just isn't fair.

I would never tell my kids that. Just a couple of weekends ago we were at the park and there was a mentally handicapped kid there and he threw sand at the kids and at first I did get mad because he looked like he like 12 so I thought he was just being a bratty kid then I realized what was wrong with him and my daughter got mad and wanted to get mad at him and I explained to her his situation and that it's probably not his fault he is that way and she shouldn't be mean in any kind of way just because they may seem different. After that she understood but I would never let my kids think bad things like that about someone who had no control over it.

Wow that's kind of disturbing to hear. I am the opposite and I am trying to teach my kids the importance of not talking to strangers, but to embrace people for their differences. My 5 year old has a habit of saying "that man looks weird" and "that lady is really fat" and stuff like that and I am really trying to break him of that, I dont know where it started from but it upsets me. I wouldn't want to offend anyone. Hope the handicapped man in your story didn't hear the woman saying that. :(

I agree with everyone here, it is sad that children are being taught so young to be judgemental and non trusting of other adults who are different than they are. I realize that our world is not the safest place, but you can't always judge a book by its cover, that is what my mom always taught me. My son is 12 and he seems to be a pretty good judge of character. If he sees someone that gives him a little scare, he just comes over and puts his arm through mine and we walk out a united front, or that is how I would put it. I have told him that it hurts peoples feelings when you say something about them outloud, and he has always remembered that. I wish more people were that way, too.

Thats sad and we as parents should not make our kids scared of people. yes, your right about making our children aware of strangers and not to talk to them but like you memtioned,scary people. thats not fair to the child or the person to which they are refering too. im glad your daughter is not like that and can pick up on when others do wrong things.

OMG! The lady didn't tell her child that person is a murderer or treat to him like scum! She was PROTECTING her child from a potential threat. He looked odd, I have and still do the same thing, I protect my children. We give sandwiches out at the local park to the homeless. I still have my children close in hand and have told them many times, stay close to me and don't wonder off. It's not about judging the homeless, it’s not even about them at all. It’s about me doing my job as a mother and insuring my children are not in any danger. To me it’s being judgmental by assuming this woman was doing the wrong thing here and it’s really sad. I reckon the police are just judgmental for teaching Stranger Danger? Good grief!

I cannot believe what some people will say. I am a firm believer in the "boomerang effect". What goes around will come around. Her time is coming and when it happens she will remember what she said.

Its like she is trying to make her child scared of people who are different. It is basically prejudice and sadly there are a lot of people out there who are prejudice and there is nothing we can do about it

A child of that age should have had ahold of one of his parent's hand anyway.....but you are right...that is a very judgemental thing for her to say.... While it is a very scary world out here.....there are much better ways to "teach" a child to be aware of their surroundings.... I wonder how someone would have "judged" her??? Just a thought....I bet she would be highly offended....yet, thought nothing about doing it to someone else....disgusting!!

I agree, but this is very common isnt it. People in a whole are so quick to judge another person even before thinking. It is sad that now that little boy thinks that that is what scary looks like instead of the real thing, and he will probualy grow up with trust issues.