I must be in backwards land

Working in retail, i see this often. Parents who either don't care, or actually even condone the rude actions of their children and i just don't get it. If i acted the way some of these kids did i would have been taken to the car to sit with my dad while my mother finished her shopping (and more than likely would have gotten a smack on the bottom on the way through the parking lot). Though i do see many instances of good parenting as well. Just the other day i was working, and a little girl knocked a jar of pasta sauce on the floor and it broke, after she had already been reprimanded and told to keep her hands to her self. When it happened the father knelt down and sternly told her that this is why she was asked not to touch things, and then made her walk over to me and apologize for the mess she made. I felt bad because the little girl was almost in tears when she did this, but after she apologized to me for making a mess that i would have to clean up, i thanked her for her apology, and told her accidents happen, but this is why we have to be careful and listen to our parents when they say not to touch things. The father then went on to offer to pay for the jar of sauce (which also surprised me, as most people don't), but t is not my stores policy to accept/require that. Not often do i get customers like that, but the few i do get restore my faith in the fact there are still proper, polite people in the world!

There's a third option, and in this case I think it's probably the one that applies: people just don't give a (expletive deleted) when it comes to common courtesy and proper manners. God forbid we raise our kids to respect others and not behave like unruly little heathens when they're out in public. You'd think that parenting is synonymous with child abuse or something.

Wow, if the aliens look just like us, do they eat the same food?