Strangers disciplining your kids...

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Re: Strangers disciplining your kids...

@Code_Red

That incident does not tell us whether parents did the job well or not. When kids gang up they tend to do obnoxious thing all the time, When we were kids we used to break windows of our neighbours, used to ruin lawns and damage pots, plants and did all sort of wild things... They used to swear at us call us morons, but we used to run away before they could catch us :D

You bad boy. :D

@Code_Red

I believe every kid could be labeled as brat, if he/she is smart and active, including yours. If he/she does not exhibit such a behaviour at times then he must be slow.

At home they can be braty, moody throw tantrum and all but outside no.

@Code_Red

At parties, social gatherings, kids do wilder thing than that. The elders are supposed to control them. Shweetdreamz being the adult should have managed the kids and easily diverted their attention. If I was the parent i would have stopped the girls, but if the parent are not paying attention you can take the charge instead letting them getting on your nerves.

Thats the whole point when shweetz took charge of the situation the mother came for rescue.

[Code_Red]

Re: Strangers disciplining your kids...

At home they can be braty, moody throw tantrum and all but outside no.

No. They will act moody trhow tantrum when they gangup... be at home or outside. They will play together, fight and break loose, if unsupervised.
This is normal behaviour. If your kid is alone at home but still braty, misbehaved and moody then there is a serious probem either with your parenting skills or with child.

Thats the whole point when shweetz took charge of the situation the mother came for rescue.
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She never took charge of the situation :p

Once our car was parked outside and at afternoon and its security alarm used to go off at maghrib time. upon checking i found no one. This happened for few days, I figured it out kids are doing this. but they used to run away as soon as they hit the car. One day I planned to teach them a lesson, I waited for them at that time and saw 3,4 kids hardly 7,8 year old hitting my car and running away, I caught one of them and thrashed him royally there and then. His friends saw this but ran away.

And then there was peace.

I never questioned their parent's abilities to teach them manners and it never crossed my mind that the child was a noisy brat. Because he was a kid and supposed to do mischief, But as an elder i have to do what is required.
Kids do all sort of mischief, and one needs to tackle them differently depending on situation.

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Re: Strangers disciplining your kids...

@Code_Red

Because he was a kid and supposed to do mischief, But as an elder i have to do what is required. Kids do all sort of mischief, and one needs to tackle them differently depending on situation.

i agree. its one thing to learn to handle your own cousins/relative's kids a certain way. i interact quite well with all of the kids in my family even though some are quite obnoxious.
but its certainly not my responsibility to handle random kids who are not related to me and go "ao saheli mill ker khailain" when parents take their kids to a social event (NOT a family event) then its their responsibility to discipline them and watch over them.
the thing that made me angry was not that the kids were being obnoxious...they are kids...but that the mom's ignore their responsibility and were busy gossipping. and then she got angry at me for telling her kid off.
Me handling the situation in the way u describe could maybe be an "ideal" solution but the bottom-line is that I dont have a duty to that...its the mom's duty to discipline the kids...not mine to try and get along with them.