The mystery of the vanishing post…I had one, it disappeared. Shrugging here. Perhaps the post had bad karma because I was thinking of deleting it and viola! Came by to do some editing and it was gone!
So here’s the deal - I sound like Haley Mills and Haley Mills in the original Parent Trap - I had a sort of good day and a sort of not good day. The hikes were almost perfect - rain, fog, very few people out, but I had this really odd experience at the grocery store. It was like…teenage parent day and blocking the entire aisle with your cart day. I’m serious.
It’s raining, right, and I head over to the supermarket, park in the lot. I’m walking toward the automatic doors; they open and out runs this little kid, maybe three years old. He’s running right into the path of a car. I grab his shirt and haul him back to safety. I look around, but there’s no mom, there’s no dad, and then the door opens and a girl, maybe seventeen, eighteen, comes out. She’s in no hurry, she doesn’t look panicked, like I would look if my three year just old ran out into the parking lot. She doesn’t lift him up in her arms and say, “Oh my god, are you all right?” She doesn’t thank me, in fact, she doesn’t say a single word to me. She grabs the kid by the arm and yells…”Payton, you turd!”
Nice.
That sort of set the tone for the rest of my shopping experience.
Okay - the WIP is very dark and edgy so my mood will be dark and edgy for a while.
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It’s a good thing you were there to grab him. Some of these teens today. I often shake my head and wonder where the manners are. Have their parents forgotten how to parent?
Amber, you said it. Their attitudes are so self-involved that they seem to have forgotten the little humans they birthed and the fact that perhaps they have needs. I can’t imagine my mother calling me a turd. Or anything else for that matter.
Julia, I don’t know how you held your tongue. I think I would have snapped at her.
Wow, that is awful! You wonder if she was a babysitter or big sis. Does the parent have a clue? As a mother who worries about leaving her kids with others, I thank you for saving that little three-year-old! OMW!
Gah!
That’s horrible. I’ve seen it before and worse is that could have been my kid. I used to dread going out alone with my sons, actually I still do. The older one no longer runs but my almost two year is a runner and parking lots are a nightmare for me. That girl should have been grateful you were there!
That poor mom needs to acquire some sense of self-respect and pride of responsibility for Payton’s sake and her own.
XXOO Kat
OMG like what the??? I am not shocked…I see this all the time….Kids running around, no parent in sight…
Scary… Been there. So good you caught him!
And here’s hoping your day tomorrow will be better!
Hi all, thanks for your comments - I’ve been in San Francisco today and just got home. Had an errand to run.
I think there were so many teen parents at the supermarket because someone was supposed to be holding a head start class or some sort of class, except I never saw a single monitor or mentor, just a bunch of teen parents texting, talking to each other and on cell phones, and kids running amok - with no supervision whatsoever. There were a few teen dads present and to be honest, the dads were doing a much better job of monitoring the kids than the moms were.
There was one couple, very young, with three small children, and they were working their absolute hardest to take very good care of the kids. I complimented them on how well behaved their children were and commented that they were doing a great job. Other than the one couple, it was a nightmare. I figure these teens must have had horrible role models and from what I witnessed, they ain’t much better.
the organization i work with is negotiating a merge with an organization that teaches teen parents how to parent, helps them finish their education and go on, and life skills. It is an exciting program and helps break the cycle of teen pregnancy, poverty and often substance abuse.
Many teen parents are repeating a cycle of early parenthood and poverty. They are modeling their parenting on how they were parented.
Yes, Steph, and I think whatever this program I ran into is, is a valid program. It’s just that as far as I could see, there were no mentors, simply teens acting like teens, with children, in a grocery store. I suspect these kids had horrible parents themselves. As I said, I did see one young couple struggling to do a good job parenting. And a few of the young men were taking care of their children. Unfortunately, none of the other young ladies I saw were doing much aside from socializing with each other and their cell phones. However, when your State is broke, you can’t afford mentors and teachers to help these kids.
LOL. ‘Payton, you turd.” I know if you hadn’t been there it could have been a calamity. But so typical of a teenager: a tad bit self absorbed .
My heart aches.