Had A Kid Scream "her Cake Made Me Puke"...
Decorating By anasazi17 Updated 17 Jul 2010 , 2:04pm by cutthecake
Oh I hate that. Ha, I know a woman who won't put presents out because her son will just open them at will!! She was like. "How do you keep them from opening their presents before Xmas?" Seriously? Uhhh, the same way I keep them from climbing all over someone else furniture....it's called discipline. You may want to try it sometime.
"Well, for each present he unwraps before Christmas, take it back to the store for a refund. Not only will your child learn there are consequences to his actions, but you can also afford a new outfit or two with the money you've just saved."
Makes me a bit afraid of having kids...not that my kids would get away with that kind of behavior, but that I would have to potentially deal with OTHER children acting that way. Oi.
There's one of the reasons I stopped teaching. I really dislike bratty kids and no longer have the patience I once had. Not to mention, I equally dislike the bratty parents.
I work better with an oven.
I laughed OUT LOUD! The first thing that came to mind was Hansel and Gretel--you don't have chocolate shingles and a biscuit door do you??? Still laughing! 
Maybe his mother was a rival baker, trying to ruin your reputation...just a thought.
Maybe his mother was a rival baker, trying to ruin your reputation...just a thought.
Interesting thought, but I honestly think you're giving that familiy too much credit. Nope, it's just another out of control child who has never been taught manners or been told NO. My guess is the one who performed the biological function of birth (NO she is NOT a mother..) would laugh and see nothing wrong with the whole thing.
OH MY! How old was this kid??? YOU handled it far better than I would've!! I woud be asking for forgiveness when I said my prayers that night for what I would have wanted to do to that kid!!! 
The McDonalds thing - didn't the lady put the coffee BETWEEN her legs while driving? Not smart!! 
I've been subbing the past few years and am truly amazed at the lack of respect even among 2nd graders! And, how parents take no responsibility and accuse teachers of not liking their kids. Used to be when I was a kid the teacher was right and if you got in trouble at school, you got in trouble also when you got home!! 
(And by trouble I mean a whipping)
There's one of the reasons I stopped teaching. I really dislike bratty kids and no longer have the patience I once had. Not to mention, I equally dislike the bratty parents.
I work better with an oven.
This is why my mom stopped teaching, too. The kids just had no respect any more.
Amen!! Kids these days are so disrespectful. Mine would have gotten in sooooo much trouble not just with me but their dad! I have to hand it to you, you handled the situation with class and dignity. I don't know if I would have done the same!
It's unfortunate but my niece in law has a "bratty" child like that. The mother just lets her run wild and get into just about anything. When the little girl is at our house, she knows better than to get into stuff. My husband won't put up with it. And, when the little girl screams "NO", the mother will sit there and do NOTHING!! But, my husband picks her up and puts her in a time out in the corner and manages to control the situation. But, the mother doesn't seem to mind when other family members try to discipline the child. Only one occasion, when the little girl did something and the mother got mad. It wasn't long before they left. lol 
Oh, well.... you may be family but good riddance for that night!!!! You're child was being a BRAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This topic has me stirred up! There is a mom who brings her son in for ice cream--First of all he's plenty old NOT to be talking baby talk-number one thing that bugs me. Secondly, he interupts me when I'm taking care of other customers who were there before he walked through the door.
Does mom do anything? Say anything?? NOPE
The last straw came the other day when mom ordered ice cream for the both of them. Son was DEMANDING.. in a very loud baby-talk voice a WARGE CWONE! Mom kept saying.. no a small.. well WARGE I WANT WARRRGEEEE was said over and over and finally I had had enough. I said LOOK!! You don't seem to understand your choices--it's a SMALL cone or NO cone.
He stopped, blinked, looked at his mother and back at me.
Mom said, "she's right"
So I made 2 small cones, mom thanked me. MOM THANKED ME for putting an end to it. Am I going to have to put 'behavior services" on my sign as well???
This topic has me stirred up! There is a mom who brings her son in for ice cream--First of all he's plenty old NOT to be talking baby talk-number one thing that bugs me. Secondly, he interupts me when I'm taking care of other customers who were there before he walked through the door.
Does mom do anything? Say anything?? NOPE
The last straw came the other day when mom ordered ice cream for the both of them. Son was DEMANDING.. in a very loud baby-talk voice a WARGE CWONE! Mom kept saying.. no a small.. well WARGE I WANT WARRRGEEEE was said over and over and finally I had had enough. I said LOOK!! You don't seem to understand your choices--it's a SMALL cone or NO cone.
He stopped, blinked, looked at his mother and back at me.
Mom said, "she's right"
So I made 2 small cones, mom thanked me. MOM THANKED ME for putting an end to it. Am I going to have to put 'behavior services" on my sign as well???
Put up a sign that says, "$5 charge to your order every time I put your kid back in his place."
auntbee,
I used to sub on all grade levels, but I got fed up fast. I'm from the old school of discipline, and can't relate to that new age feel-good crap about "not stifling" the little darlings. I stopped subbing in the high schools; then I wouldn't go to the middle schools; then I wouldn't go to the 5th grade classrooms. By the time I decided to stop subbing, I would only go into Kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The kids--and certainly not ALL of them--are getting worse and worse. But you mostly remember the demons.
And don't get me started on the "cluster" desk arrangement, which means that the kids are facing north, south, east and west, so only one fourth of the kids are actually facing the teacher at any given time. But I digress.
I feel sooooo sorry for parents nowadays. If they discipline their kids - the parents get a call from child services. If they don't discipline - the kids act like animals. I tend to glare at parents more so than the children if I see a bratty little animal child but more and more I feel sorry for the parents that they can't whack their kids with a wooden spoon like the good ol days
I don't feel sorry for the parents at all. They created those little monsters. Discipline must begin at a very early age. If the parents drop the ball when the kids are toddlers, they're doomed to raise brats.
I agree, cutthecake!! I raised 2 children, and can count on one hand the number of times I smacked both of them--combined!! They both got swats on the behind for running to the street while we were in the yard. Yep, they'd been warned several times.
Discipline is consistency, and EXAMPLE. If mom acts like a moron while driving in traffic or is rude to every cashier or waiter that is only doing their job, what does that teach the child? If a parent constantly makes snide comments about authority, what is a child to think? Our children learn WAYYY more from watching our behavior than they ever learn from us squawking at them about this or that.
I don't feel sorry for the parents at all. They created those little monsters. Discipline must begin at a very early age. If the parents drop the ball when the kids are toddlers, they're doomed to raise brats.
Exactly!!!!! It is absolutely the parents fault! I actually feel bad for the kids sometimes.(even though I want paddle their behind!) The parents are only hurting them more by letting them think that kind of behavior is acceptable. What happens when they get older? They cant hold a job, they have no respect for authority, and who knows what else!
What really bugs me is when someone talks about how "lucky" another person is to have such well behaved children. NO they're not lucky! They have worked hard and been consistant with discipline to have those well behaved children!
imagine Buzz Lightyear... to infinity and beyond....
Seriously, I will tuck that response into my back pocket.
Once when my daughter was in junior high she came home and told me something a friend of hers did...can't remember the details of what it was...just the remark my daughter made, "You would NEVER let ME get away with anything like that!" And she said it rather proudly. She was right. My husband and I never let her 'get away' with anything I didn't think was in her (or society's) best interest. What so many of these 'feel good' parents can't seem to understand is that children crave knowing where their place in the world is. It's a form of security. They'll never know what's right unless they know what's wrong, and as smart as we all think our kids are, they weren't born with that knowledge! Someone has to teach them and if the parent's don't, then the children have no compass with which to navigate life.
What so many of these 'feel good' parents can't seem to understand is that children crave knowing where their place in the world is. It's a form of security. They'll never know what's right unless they know what's wrong, and as smart as we all think our kids are, they weren't born with that knowledge! Someone has to teach them and if the parent's don't, then the children have no compass with which to navigate life.
Could not have said it better!
I've been accused of being a mother of a brat, too. However, my son has Autism and is five years old. When he has one of his meltdowns, we leave the store and I will just hold him firmly until he is done. I will probably have 10-15 people gathered around me to "help" me. They will shout to hit him, smack him, that I should be smacked myself or take "good mommy lessons". Sometimes people just don't know the situation. Maybe it's because he doesn't look like a special needs child?
Sorry to get off of the topic. Truth be told, I probably would have boxed his ears. It's a shame when parents allow their children to think the world owes them everything. My mother would just take one look at me and whatever I was thinking of doing, that look would just stop me in my tracks.
Ladyellam -- your comment should make us stop and think before we make some wrong assumptions. As you obviously know, autism requires a totally different response. Reminds me of the old saying, "don't judge another until you have walked a mile in her shoes..." We rarely know the whole story before we judge somebody else.
Ladyellam -- your comment should make us stop and think before we make some wrong assumptions. As you obviously know, autism requires a totally different response. Reminds me of the old saying, "don't judge another until you have walked a mile in her shoes..." We rarely know the whole story before we judge somebody else.
If I had some kid in my face yelling about how my cupcakes had made him sick, and being all around obnoxious, I don't think 'stopping and thinking' before I booted him out on his ass would have made much difference. I seriously doubt this kid has autism.
Yep, kids learn from example! Bet his parents are the ones suing McD's for their coffee being too hot!
Just for the record, that McDonald's case wasn't frivolous. The restaurant had been knowingly serving the coffee way too hot for a long time and had been warned about it several times before. It was kept that hot so that by the time people got to work, it would still be hot, but not so hot as to give them 3rd degree burns like it would if they attempted to drink it when served.
The plaintiff originally sought to settle the case for $20,000, probably the cost of her medical bills (she suffered 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body in the span of about 7 seconds) but McDonald's refused. That is why she sued.
I wish people actually knew the facts of that case before using it as an example of frivolous lawsuits.
As for the kid in the OP, it's been said before but I'll say it again. I'm not patient enough to deal with that crap, but then I don't really like brats no matter the age. I probably would have berated him until he cried.
OMGitsaLisa - Thank you - I have a family member who also always states what you have just shared - maybe you are the same person? LOL 
I think in this case though the comment was not really referring to THAT McD case, but generally all the subsequent ones (and non hot beverage related ones) that are indeed frivolous and are caused by people who just don't take any responsibility for their own actions. Where I live in recent weeks we've had 2 suits against Starbucks for hot tea - one was a woman who picked up her cup without a protective sleeve, and instead of thinking "Oh, I ordered a hot drink and it's too hot to hold let me put it back down on the counter and get a sleeve" she instead turned and dropped the scalding tea onto her baby in a stroller below. So of course that's not HER fault at all.
Oh - sorry to the OP, I do commend you for the way you handled the situation. Last night I wanted to scream at some parents who were letting their kid run around Home Depot of all places...the kid just missed hitting her head on the metal studs hanging off my cart right before she darted down another aisle by herself. 
The McDonalds thing - didn't the lady put the coffee BETWEEN her legs while driving? Not smart!!
The car wasn't in motion and she was the passenger. The driver had come to a stop to let her put sugar and cream in when yes, she put it between her knees to try to get the lid off. She was found 20% at fault for the accident because of that and her judgment was reduced accordingly.
In reply to some of the previous replies about not teaching any more....
... the nice thing about working with children is it makes you realise there a children a LOT more horrible than your own! 
(actually, mine aren't! I'm frequently being told how polite my boys are. But I just like saying the above, LOL!)
Suzanne x
Oh for heaven's sake people...
It was a little boy over-eating junk food at a festival going in and teasing a cake lady.
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Much more on the link...
The Actual Facts About - The Mcdonalds' Coffee Case
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
There is a lot of hype about the McDonalds' scalding coffee case. No one is in favor of frivolous cases of outlandish results; however, it is important to understand some points that were not reported in most of the stories about the case. McDonalds coffee was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of almost instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle. Here's the whole story.
The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she underwent skin grafting. Liebeck, who also underwent debridement treatments, sought to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonalds refused.
During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992. Some claims involved third-degree burns substantially similar to Liebecks. This history documented McDonalds' knowledge about the extent and nature of this hazard.
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Further, McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat. The quality assurance manager admitted that burns would occur, but testified that McDonalds had no intention of reducing the "holding temperature" of its coffee.
Plaintiffs' expert, a scholar in thermodynamics applied to human skin burns, testified that liquids, at 180 degrees, will cause a full thickness burn to human skin in two to seven seconds...
kansaslaura- U had my dying with this one! I have a 2 and 4 year old and this type of "choice" comes out of my mouth a hundred times a day, Girls you can either have milk or water, no we want juice. Your choices are milk, water or no drink. Ok mom, we will have milk.
I hope you charged a $25 behavior consultation fee for your intervention!
Lol!! Good for you!
Where we live you have to take responsibility for yourself, or die. We have several deaths a year and the numbers climb drastically during the summer when the tourists show up because they come from the lower 48 and are so used to society holding their hand they just don't even consider the consequences of their actions. At all.
My sister is on the search and rescue team and some of the stories--oy.
Guess what--boiling water is HOT. Mountains are ROCKY. Bears KILL people. Ocean water is COLD. If you fall in without a life jacket you will DROWN. Unsupervised kids cause trouble, get hurt, get abducted, annoy everybody around them and eat too much junk food and puke.
WTH is the matter with people nowadays anyway?
Sheesh, sorry for the rant this morning! OP--I think you handled it well, better than I would have for sure LOL
I had a mom come to me and ask how I can keep my kids so well behaved. I said shock collars work wonders ... Seriously she did ask - I wanted to say well 3 iced mochas in a row might have something to do with you kid out of control - imagine a 4 year old on 3 iced mochas - a scary sight
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