Why is it that parents can never hear or see their own children? This phenoma is most apt to appear in high-end restaurants,stores, and shopping malls. The children race around screaming and disrupting everyone..and their parents never notice.
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My theory is this: They are around the behavior 24/7 and since the behavior is ALWAYS like that it becomes "normal". For instance, people who work in the cattle industry no longer smell the smells that cows produce. Folk from the city go driving down the road and they are like "OH My GOD! What is that horrid smell. And they can not understand how the farmers could live that close to the cattle and NOT smell that horrid smell. Humans readily adapt and become "blind" to scents, sights, and behaviors of others if they are immersed in that for a long period of time. Most likely the parents have become so used to their children being little devils of destruction that to them they no longer "see" the destructive path their children leave behind.
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Not ALL parents are this way.
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That is certainly not true for all parents. We definitely notice and try to control our child. If he was uncontrolable, we took him outside until he could calm down. Mostly, we left him at home with a babysitter to not even have an issue to begin with.
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Oh, they notice. They just don't CARE. It sickens me, but there are some parents out there (although I use the term parent lightly)who really don't give a damn that their children are terrorizing an entire plane/restaurant/store/Build-A-Bear workshop. They see no need to instruct their childen in one of the most basic tenets of civilization: Keep your crazy at home. In public we all pretend like we got it together.
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Yeah, some "let their kids loose" just to get them away from themselves for awhile. Bad, really bad.
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Selective Hearing or Distracted Parent Syndrome If I had children, trust me, I would be so guilty of this because I can just totally zone out to my surroundings if I don't concentrate. I did the universe a favor by not birthing any offspring.
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While it is, thankfully, not true of all parents, I'd say that those who act this way, for the most part, just don't care. When I was growing up, our parents didn't let us run around in restaurants or stores screaming, hollering, making a mess. Because they told us it was wrong and we'd get into trouble and be punished for doing anything like that. I think there are a lot of parents who are afraid to discipline their children anymore (afraid of being accused of child abuse perhaps?). There's a big difference between discipline/a spanking and abuse. We were out last week for my step-sister's birthday (with her 2 young daughters) and people at the next table had 3 young children. They screamed and squealed, threw food, napkins, silverware on the floor and got up and kept running around the whole time they were there. The parents didn't say one thing to these kids to make them sit down and behave.
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