Dear random old people...

I have a cure for this epidemic of old people. I am going to open a petting zoo where old people and the like can come in and pet, rub, pinch cheeks and make friendly comments to pregnant woman and children. They can even pose for pictures with them and pay to have it framed in one of those cheesy "family" frames. We will see prune smoothies with extra whey of course, rent motorized scooters and have a senior citizen lost and found.

On the other side of the zoo there will seminars on "how to live in a society that has all but forgotten you and the amazing accomplishments of your generation"

Dear random young people,

One day YOU will BE a random old person.

I hope you are treated well.

I do hope you don't feel parents not wanting you to randomly touch their children is some how not treating you well.

We don't know what your hygiene is like, or if you have used hand creams that our kids may be allergic to, or if you are carrying an illness you may pass to them.

It is out of consern for our kids that we ask this not because we want to treat you unkindly. Intact random touching of my children will be you creatng an environment tha invites unkind treatment.

Soooo you want to be treated well keep your hands off my kids.

Yea, their teachers and friends at daycare or school are a different story and definitely could not have used any of those creams or have any illnesses.

I'm more concerned about strangers thinking it's okay to discipline my child. We, my friend and I and kids, were at pizza hut buffet having lunch and some people in the back had a screaming child. A group of elderly ladies were sitting close to the buffet and my friends little boy(he was 5) went running to the buffet to get food and this old lady grabbed his arm and told him to quit all that screaming and it wasn't polite to scream like that, now mind you it wasn't him number 1 and number 2 I understand you being irritated with the screaming kid, I was there for 2 minutes and I had had enough of it but it's not your place to correct a child or their parents. I went off on her and told her in no uncertain terms that touching another persons child in that manner is unacceptable and very rude. They called me rude and I told them that rude is grabbing someone else's child in the manner she did so and that he (the child) deserved an apology and his mother too. She finally apologized and so did I. But if they are coming up and saying how cute and touching their heads and such I see nothing wrong with it. This is what's wrong with this world people get to upset over the little stuff. And to the lady with the kid who has allergies, your situation is different and not the normal. I would think even taking the child out to eat or even in public would be to much of a risk for the child and you should just leave said child home. I'm thinking I would be so paranoid to take my child out because of all the risks to it's life and said child is safer at home. Sucks to be the child though

Why was a 5 year old running up to a hot buffet? Many restaurants prohibit kids under 10 from serving themselves.

Simple solution is simple.

He took off before we could stop him and we were telling him to come back when the lady grabbed him. He was running up there to stand in line and wait for him momma.

Maybe his " momma " needs to teach him how to behave when eating in public. At five years old, he is old enough to learn. You would not need to " go off " on another patron of the restaurant ( because it's not your place either ) and the old lady can eat in peace.

I'm more concerned about strangers thinking it's okay to discipline my child. We, my friend and I and kids, were at pizza hut buffet having lunch and some people in the back had a screaming child. A group of elderly ladies were sitting close to the buffet and my friends little boy(he was 5) went running to the buffet to get food and this old lady grabbed his arm and told him to quit all that screaming and it wasn't polite to scream like that, now mind you it wasn't him number 1 and number 2 I understand you being irritated with the screaming kid, I was there for 2 minutes and I had had enough of it but it's not your place to correct a child or their parents. I went off on her and told her in no uncertain terms that touching another persons child in that manner is unacceptable and very rude. They called me rude and I told them that rude is grabbing someone else's child in the manner she did so and that he (the child) deserved an apology and his mother too. She finally apologized and so did I. But if they are coming up and saying how cute and touching their heads and such I see nothing wrong with it. This is what's wrong with this world people get to upset over the little stuff. And to the lady with the kid who has allergies, your situation is different and not the normal. I would think even taking the child out to eat or even in public would be to much of a risk for the child and you should just leave said child home. I'm thinking I would be so paranoid to take my child out because of all the risks to it's life and said child is safer at home. Sucks to be the child though

Why was a 5 year old running up to a hot buffet? Many restaurants prohibit kids under 10 from serving themselves.

Simple solution is simple.

He took off before we could stop him and we were telling him to come back when the lady grabbed him. He was running up there to stand in line and wait for him momma.

Maybe his " momma " needs to teach him how to behave when eating in public. At five years old, he is old enough to learn. You would not need to " go off " on another patron of the restaurant ( because it's not your place either ) and the old lady can eat in peace.

*cringe*. DON"T TOUCH MY CHILD.

Not true I don't have a problem with you touching my child, I have a problem with you grabbing my child by his arm and proceeding to tell him what he should and should not do. This was my friends child and I consider him my nephew and he calls me Aunt. It's not the first time I've gone off on people for being rude to her children, there are some things you just don't do. Touching cute little babies is very different from grabbing the arm of a child and correcting it when the mother or caretaker is there to do it.

I am shocked at the number of children who run around restaurants, stores, and even church while their parents just sit there and let the kids run amok. Then I laugh and shake my head at the kids whose parents have them on a leash like they were a dog or something. What happened to discipline and controlling your child. And if the kid needs a leash I think there's a bigger problem going on.

This will get a lot of comments I'm sure. If the kid misbehaves, and the parent corrects the kid and he/she continues to misbehave, I see nothing wrong with decking the kid to get their attention. Worked for my parents, and it worked for me.

If you deck my kid, you better make sure you have someone to bail you out of jail.

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If your kid acts like that it should really be you who is decked.

I am shocked at the number of children who run around restaurants, stores, and even church while their parents just sit there and let the kids run amok. Then I laugh and shake my head at the kids whose parents have them on a leash like they were a dog or something. What happened to discipline and controlling your child. And if the kid needs a leash I think there's a bigger problem going on.

This will get a lot of comments I'm sure. If the kid misbehaves, and the parent corrects the kid and he/she continues to misbehave, I see nothing wrong with decking the kid to get their attention. Worked for my parents, and it worked for me.

If you deck my kid, you better make sure you have someone to bail you out of jail.

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If your kid acts like that it should really be you who is decked.

If the only response you have to a child's behavior is violence, then I question your ability to function in society.