On August 8, I sat at the movie theaters with my friend. After a long week of doing what teenagers do most over summer break, nothing, I decided to spend my last available weekend at the movies, before the first day back to school. I took my seat behind a family with a little girl around the age of 3. The movie was about five minutes started, when the girl suddenly began screaming. I ignored it at first, thinking that her parents would eventually jump in and solve it. Both parents sat ignoring the girl’s tantrum while continuing to watch the movie, almost pretending as if she was never crying in the first place. I don’t think it’s very respectful when parents ignore their child’s annoying behavior. It shows that they have no respect for the
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I begun to believe that parents feel the need not to “break their child’s spirit” and they become afraid to give consequences hoping that their child will just “get it” and eventually stop and realize that they are in a public place. It almost seems as though parents probably don’t know the correct way to respond in a public place since you can’t physically punish a child in public so they decide to just let the child cry it out hoping that they will tire themselves out. I heard a story one time about a guy named Brian. Brian went to IHOP one morning around 10:15am. It was on New Year’s Day so he went out on a celebration at the County Inn in Santa Clara. A woman with a baby came in and sat in the booth right in front of him. The baby began crying and eventually started screaming very loudly. The woman just kind of sat there and continued eating. He began to think to himself, ‘Just because you’re used to it and aren’t annoyed by the shrieking of your child, doesn’t mean that no one else isn’t’. She should’ve took the child outside for a minute for the sake of others trying to enjoy their morning breakfast, but instead chose to enjoy her meal without being considerate of …show more content…
Sometimes plane rides are the worst. I wouldn’t know this from experience considering the fact that I’ve never rode on a plane. I watched a movie one time about a businessman named Jay. Jay usually worked out of state and travelled back home occasionally for holiday visits. Over the Holidays, he had a 6am flight from Buffalo to Chicago. When he was about 5 minutes into the flight, a baby girl started crying, almost the whole time with a total of 1 ½ hours. Then the kicking in the back of his seat begun, this time it was a little boy, with the parent sitting next to him, reading a book. He was very relieved to get off the plane. He was hoping that those two families weren’t getting on the connecting flight to San Jose. Surprisingly, the family of the little boy was. He was very upset to find this out and they sat right in front of him, plus there was a crying baby boy behind him. Both children were causing disruptions for Jay and you could even tell the flight attendant was annoyed. The parents of both children didn’t seem to mind their child’s annoying behaviors. After getting off of the plane, Jay was extremely traumatized. Everytime he saw a little kid or even a baby, his heart jumped. It’s a miracle of how much of an impact these parents have on the
I begun to believe that parents feel the need not to “break their child’s spirit” and they become afraid to give consequences hoping that their child will just “get it” and eventually stop and realize that they are in a public place. It almost seems as though parents probably don’t know the correct way to respond in a public place since you can’t physically punish a child in public so they decide to just let the child cry it out hoping that they will tire themselves out. I heard a story one time about a guy named Brian. Brian went to IHOP one morning around 10:15am. It was on New Year’s Day so he went out on a celebration at the County Inn in Santa Clara. A woman with a baby came in and sat in the booth right in front of him. The baby began crying and eventually started screaming very loudly. The woman just kind of sat there and continued eating. He began to think to himself, ‘Just because you’re used to it and aren’t annoyed by the shrieking of your child, doesn’t mean that no one else isn’t’. She should’ve took the child outside for a minute for the sake of others trying to enjoy their morning breakfast, but instead chose to enjoy her meal without being considerate of …show more content…
Sometimes plane rides are the worst. I wouldn’t know this from experience considering the fact that I’ve never rode on a plane. I watched a movie one time about a businessman named Jay. Jay usually worked out of state and travelled back home occasionally for holiday visits. Over the Holidays, he had a 6am flight from Buffalo to Chicago. When he was about 5 minutes into the flight, a baby girl started crying, almost the whole time with a total of 1 ½ hours. Then the kicking in the back of his seat begun, this time it was a little boy, with the parent sitting next to him, reading a book. He was very relieved to get off the plane. He was hoping that those two families weren’t getting on the connecting flight to San Jose. Surprisingly, the family of the little boy was. He was very upset to find this out and they sat right in front of him, plus there was a crying baby boy behind him. Both children were causing disruptions for Jay and you could even tell the flight attendant was annoyed. The parents of both children didn’t seem to mind their child’s annoying behaviors. After getting off of the plane, Jay was extremely traumatized. Everytime he saw a little kid or even a baby, his heart jumped. It’s a miracle of how much of an impact these parents have on the