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Vent: I can't stand rude children!
I know that all children can be rude from time to time. I have been watching my friend's son for the past 2 days and I'm seriously annoyed.
He is almost 3 years old and he demands everything. "Get me drink." "Put Buzz and Woody on." Etc. My daughter is 2 weeks younger than him and I've taught her to say please and thank you and she knows that it's expected of her. That's not to say she doesn't need to be reminded from time to time, but 8 out of 10 times she say it on her own.
On a different note, my daughter has been potty trained for a few months now, but has been going #2 on the potty for at least 8 months. Changing an almost 3 year old's poopy diaper is beyond disgusting. I know boys can take longer/potty train later, but I'm really hoping to encourage my son(s) to potty train ASAP after this experience!
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Re: Vent: I can't stand rude children!
Sorry!
Social skills are definitely TAUGHT so I can understand why you would be annoyed. Kids don't learn "please" or "thank you" or how to greet a new person by osmosis - they learn from their parents. Obviously your friend isn't actively teaching him which is sad. I'm a school counselor and I have high schoolers who obviously have never been taught any social skills. So at 3 hopefully things can be salvaged and he will eventually be a polite kid.
As for the diapers - I agree. I am going to start potty training my DD in about 2 weeks (I am going out of town next week and didn't want to deal with it on the 10 hour drive). I'm so ready not to change her poopy diapers. I can't imagine a 3 year old version!
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In the past 2 weeks I've held the door open for two teenage boys (separate occasions). They just walked right on past me through the door. No thank you, no nod of the head, no tip of the hat.... NOTHING!!
It makes me so angry. I think my 18 month old says "Day-Doo" for thank you more often than they do!!
I completely understand!
Manners are a HUGE thing for me! DS may not pronounce it right, but he knows when it's appropriate to say thank you. He says "Ay-boo" but I think is just cuter anyways.
Though its not the little dude's fault, it's his parents who haven't taught him. Hopefully if you keep prompting him to use these manners, then he'll start to see its expected of him. At least when he's around you.
OMG YES.
My son's almost 2, and if he doesn't say please, he doesn't get anything! He also has to say thanks (even though it sounds like ass LOL!) or it gets taken back until he does. Manners are non-negotiable!
He has also started potty training... Accidents or not, my three year old won't be in diapers! That's just slacker parenting there honestly. Changing a diaper may be easier than changing his entire outfit, but it's part of the process and isn't doing him any favors! I feel bad for the little guy
I completely know what you mean. My DH and I babysat for some friends. I can't think of any other way to describe it as thier 2.5 yo daughter was 'wild.' They never fed her at the table so she had no clue what to do when she got there and some how she had learned sarcasm. So whenever someone scolded her she would sarcastically say 'I love you, too'
It was a learning lesson for us
This is one of the reasons I have stopped babysitting my friends kids.. It drives me nuts..
Ugh, Reed was at the pool the other day and swam over to a little boy that had to have been 3 years old. Reed said "hi, I'm Reed, what's your name?" and the little boy had this evil look in his eye and looked at him and said "you suck". I was appalled. I told him that was rude and he was not allowed to speak to us that way and then I told Reed he wasn't going to play with him. His mother was no where to be found either. She was way up on the pool deck not paying a bit of attention to her little monster.
DS has been poop trained since 18 mos and fully potty trained since 21 mos (nighttime trained by the time he turned 2) so I tend to judge more than I should when I see big kids with diapers hanging out of their pants. I don't really care, it's their parents loss and they are the ones that have to deal with that nastiness and I don't want to talk a big talk about it since DS #2 seems to be catching on a lot slower than DS #1.