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Screaming Kids
Well I don't like kids screaming at all just the other day I was a the bookstore looking at the mangas when I has to squat down to find a book when I heard breathing.
I turned to see a kid about four or five looking at me so I got up and moved to another section thinking he wanted to see what I was looking at then it happen again but this time he was so close to me as if he was going to do something and he did. In a high pitch scream that everyone in the store can hear, he yelled right at my ear making me fall over. As I was trying to get up the kid screamed again this time in my other ear. I told him to quite it but he didn't he kept screaming and screaming until his mom showed up. The kids mom told him to stop yelling as she grabbed him, the kid didn't stop and he was wiggling like a worm and hitting his mom on the arm. Finally the owner came over and asked the mother to take her child out of the store right now. The mother said yes and had to drag her kid out of the store as they did the kid knocked over books and other stuff as well. My ears were ringing for a while until I can hear again but I felt sorry for the mom knowing her kid was acting weird for some reason that is so embarraseing not just the mom but her kid as well. Has this ever happen to you when your at a public place a kid screams his or her head off and you want to do something but you might get into trouble if you do and how do solve it? |
oh yeah this has happened plenty of times... then again the kid was a member of my family and so there was only one thing to do! DUCT TAPE!
I'm just kidding, if it's not your kid or a family member there's really nothing you can do but move away (or in some cases run for your life) and hope the kid loses you or loses interest. It sounds to me like the kid you described was nothing but a brat who was overly tired or annoyed. Or sometimes if you're lucky (like me) you can look straight into the kid's eyes and hope to scare the screaming out of them without even touching them. (because if you touch them then the parent will start screaming and that's worse then the kid.) Something about eye contact just shakes the screaming loose in some kids. Other than that I have no idea! Hope you have some luck with my tips though. |
Surprisingly I have more trouble with the adults at my work than the kids. Although, I did have a little girl run up to me yesterday and ask me if I could tell her sister to leave her alone. That was weird. I'm not a babysitter.
And I also had some girls come in who were around 10, and one of them asked me if I could give them $20 so she and her friends could go do something. I had a hard time not laughing at her...I mean, would I be working in retail if I had money to spare? Kids can be really cute and funny sometimes. That sucks for your poor ears. The kid probably wanted attention or something and knows that screaming will get him attention if he can't get it any other way. I'm not sure how to get kids to stop screaming once they've started, but if you talk to them when they want attention, sometimes it keeps them from doing it in the first place. |
Hehe, I can't scream myself, but I do hate screaming. >.>;
I'm sorry about your ears. xD Screaming is just a way of getting attention in my opinion. It's doing something un-necessary to get attention. xP |
That type of thing happened to me at a store I used to work at. There was some tot in a cart that was screaming it's head off for an hour. @[email protected] I dove into the back bargain aisle to do markdowns hopping the child would stop. After an hour I was this close to telling the parents to remove the noisemaker. >.< Right about then the parents came over to were the child could see them and stopped. o.0
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wow.. O_O that was weird! I have never had such an experience with kids, even though I work at a store where you'd think children would cry and yell a lot.. I guess I've been lucky.
I hate it when moms drag their kids to a store with them, especially when they're wildly running around, screaming and dropping stuff.. D: if they know that maybe they should search for somebody to guard them for some time -.- I know you can't always find a place to leave your kids but anyway.. If I'm ever going to be a mom, I will try to avoid bringing kids along to a store with me. |
I've never had that happen to me. I don't know exactly what I'd do.
I can tell you what I'd do if the kid was someone in my family. I'd smack him on the butt. I understand that kids are kids and all, but I don't find that type of behavior acceptable, no matter how old you are. |
What a little shithead. If some kid did that to me I'd duct tape their mouth shut.
That kids got issues. Or his mom's got issues with raising him correctly. =/ |
It bugs me that parents are afraid of disciplining their kids these days. They act out in public places because that's the only way they know to get their parents to pay them any attention. If their parents spent time with them at home without giving in to their every want, maybe they wouldn't be like that. I know for a fact that my future kids won't dare to embarrass me in a store like that. My mom would kick my ass if I let them turn out as such. >.>
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Did it ever occur that the child may be autistic? What you described sounds like he may be at least slightly, especially the part where a small child was hitting his mother...
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Ok either autistic or extremely spoiled and undisciplined.
I dunno I've seen some pretty rotten kids out there [ I babysit a lot] Especially the ones with the mom that believed in "positive re-enforcement" That's about the biggest load I've heard in my life. She never once disciplined her kids, so of course babysitting them was such a chore because they wouldn't listen to a word I said. At all and she'd get mad if I gave them crap. Like I was giving they little boy a bath, and he took a bucket of water and dumped it all over me. I called him a brat and took him out, and his mom screamed at me for calling her kid a brat and docked my pay. =/ Yea she was actually there when I was babysitting her kids because she doesn't believe the idea of individual playtime. She is CONSTANTLY around her kids and playing with them. So she can't just say here's some toys kids, mommy's gonna go work. No, she has to hire a babysitter =/ She had hired a nanny before, and she'd actually said eff this and walked out XD Some parents are just nuts and get really stupid new age ideas in their heads that don't work at all. Positive reenforcement my ass. I'm sorry but kids need discipline. My mom was huge on that and I think I turned out pretty well. Really I think all kids in their life time have pulled some tantrum in a store before. But the mom's have to not be afraid to discipline them right there. Like if my kid was hitting me, I'd be like stop hitting me or we're never EVER coming to the mall ever again. I wouldn't just take it. And if you make threats like that, and actually stick to them, they'll know you mean it and will probably stop it. Like when I was little I was pulling shit in the grocery store, and my mom's like STOP IT OR WE'LL GO HOME RIGHT NOW And I didn't think she would so I kept it up so she gave the cart to a cartboy, and took me home >< Really, I just really hate parents that let their kids control them. They just shouldn't be parents. |
At least you guys were nice to teh kids orhold yourself into not doing nothing to the kid but, I used tohang out at a Game Room just to play DDR and I would usually see my friends play and wait my turn, one day there was this kid running between the screen & the Dance Pad space and my friend went and screamed at the kid "Don't ya dare do it again or you'll be in big trouble!" (The thing is that they kind of like get their faces into the screen or interrups the concentration of the people who are playing at the moment.) Well, Imagine what happened; The kid went again and when he was at the middle, my friend hold the head of the kid and pushed him so hard that the kid ended up at the soccer machine and hitting his head against it.
Even though I felt bad for the kid, I wasn't able to hold it and start laughing like everyone else and the mother came like confused into what happened and the kid was wailing and crying and pointing at my friend but, what the mother understood was that he fell due to the machine so, she grab the kid and walked out of the Game Room. |
That kid just got what he deserved that's all.
If he wants to be a little shit then he's got to expect people to lash out at him. It's a good life's lesson. =] |
Screaming children annoy me.
DISCIPLINE IS NEEDED. |
Urgh, I hate screaming kids...
One time in Walmart this girl was screaming as if she was being murdered. Like, literally, too. Not yelling. SCREAMING as loudly as she could. There was nothing wrong with her. If there was, someone would have noticed. There were tons of people near by. And her parent[s] just kept on shopping! I wasn't in the same aisle as them, but I didn't hear a single person telling her to be quiet. I just heard five or more minutes of "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!111" Everyone near by was very obviously annoyed. People were muttering about it. I'm not for child abuse or anything. Believe me. But if that had been MY child, I would have slapped her right across the face and given her a good yelling at. That is NOT how civilized people communicate what they want. But on the flip side, what's just as bad are the parents that yell at their children when they haven't done anything. Generally, you can tell when a kid is doing something just because they don't know any better, or because they want to be a defiant asshole. I've seen little kids innocently wander a foot away from their parents, only to be screamed at. "ANTHONY YOU GET BACK HERE OR I'LL SPANK YOU!" "DON'T YOU PICK THAT UP!!!!" It's like... jeez, cut the kid a break, he's four. >.O It'd be fine if the kid was running around like a monkey and picking up uncovered food with snot-covered hands. Then yelling is in order. But if the kid takes three steps and picks up a little toy, who really cares? Some mothers can just be overbearing bitches. Some of them also, you may notice, yell at their kids, but also don't care. "DON'T PICK THAT UP! *goes back to talking on the phone while making no physical effort to restrain or corral their child*" You can always tell those ones are just doing it to make a show in public so they don't "look bad" or something. But yeah, screaming bloody murder at your little girl for picking up a toy really makes you look great. >.O Eh, sorry. I see too many horribly raised children in stores. So I'm ranting a bit. |
I must have saint-like patience or something- whenever I hear a child screaming in public, I go see what's wrong. o.O
Like once, I was shopping with my cousins and sister, and we heard this little boy wailing, and my cousins were all 'That's so freaking annoying' and my sister said she'd like to smack the kid to make him shut up. I just rolled my eyes at them and went looking for him. He was hiding under a crib because he'd gotten separated from his mother, and all the strangers were scaring him. So I took his hand and walked him through the store towards the front desk, until we found his mother looking for him in the toy aisles. What ticks me off is that this boy was crying for a good five minutes at least before I found him, and not one other person could be bothered to see what was wrong. Who knows how long he'd be stuck under there if I hadn't gone looking for him? He was three if he was a day; he wouldn't know how to find the help desk, even if he understood an announcement telling him to meet his mother there. I've done a lot of babysitting, especially with younger children, and I've noticed that, usually, children - not babies - cry for one of four reasons: they're hungry, they're hurt, they're scared, or they want attention. Maybe I'm just strange, but I try to provide whatever the child needs, within reason. When I was small, I was neglected a lot, and I can't stand to hear a child cry and not try to make it stop. |
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But the thing is, in stores, most of the time when little kids are screaming it's because they wanted a toy and their mother said no. And they think that if they scream enough their mother will get embarrassed and get them the toy just to shut them up. |
To be fair at a certain age small children are developmentally incapable of controlling their impulses. But the parent should be considerate and remove them from the premises.
In a place like a grocery store though, that is a tough spot to try to hand down discipline because you need to go and you can't always go when the kid is in a nice mood. |
Personally, I dislike children immensely. But to do that to a perfect stranger? Honey, he was probably autistic. He had no idea that it's not something that polite society accepts. Autistic children often do things that seem to normal people like intentional provocations. But chances are he didn't realize what he was doing...
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Kids will only act like that if you let them unless they have a mental disorder of some sort. The only time either of my children have cried in a public place was when they were hungry as infants.
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Ignoring spoiled brats doesn't help. Gossy is right in that they should be removed from the store, or just brought up right to begin with. My problem is that I'm the only person I know who makes an effort to see what's wrong. Just because a child is screaming in the toy store doesn't mean he's throwing a fit over a toy he wants. I think that if people are going to complain about it, they should at least try to find the cause of it. But that's just me, and I think we've already established that I'm strange. |
WTF? YES! DX exact same thing happened to me but the kid was like 4 and was like looking at me m like O.o wtf? so i moved but he little girl kept following me and im thinking what the hell does she want but again she kept following me and i picked up Tsubasa and i opened to like this battle scene and she screamed in my right ear...
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I think it's horrible when kids do that.. I've seen a kid sit down in the middle of a store isle and just start screaming her freakin' head off. She wanted a certain kind of cracker or cookie or something and her mum wouldn't get it. She wanted something else. The mum got the kid to shush and move on, but enh. It was loud and annoying while it lasted. It's horrible when kids are like that.. I don't know who I want to slap in the face and yell at. The parent, or the child? |
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