June 11th, 2009

This will be my very first blog. I am very blunt and harsh with a lot of my opinions. I also curse a lot - deal with it or click the little "x" button. I feel that it is best that I rant (mostly over the internet) about terrible parents I come across. They could be parents (mostly), nannies, or just babysitters. I could care less, the ones I rant about suck!

I took my girls to the local play area today. It's a small outdoor play area that can hold about maybe 10 smaller kids total. Any child of any age can go to it, there are no restrictions. I don't agree with this, and feel there should be posted signs to limit the ages. I'll get into that in a few.

I got there about an hour before dinner time, our usual play-time. Usually there isn't that many people at the play area, but today it was packed. There were about 15 older children there (aged about 12 yrs old), 8 younger kids (ages varying from 7 months to 4 yrs old), and 5 parents. Tons of kids unsupervised, of course.

I have a firm belief that if your child cannot actively play on play equipment without your help, then you should not be bringing your child to that play area (not counting swings). Some of these other kids are rough, and if you need to hold your kid up to walk, don't take your kid here! You are impeding the other children's fun with your fat ass, and your kid is most likely going to get knocked the fuck over by some older kid! Your 6 month old kid would have just as much fun playing in your backyard, as they do being dragged all across the play equipment. This is a headache for mother's with older kiddlings.

I also believe that at a certain age your kid does NOT need you to constantly "helicopter" around them. Other parents don't like to see you blocking the slide while you watch your kid. Other parents get fed up with the way that you think YOUR kid comes first! I do not care if your kid is autistic or anything else, your kid is in a public place and definately does not come first to strangers like myself. Teach your kid to wait in line and not to push MY kid out of the way. Don't laugh when your kid hits MY child and say it's "cute". It's not cute, your kid is a brat!

On that note, when your kid reaches about the age of 7 they should NOT be playing on the younger kids' toys. Your kids threw rocks at mine today! Now my eldest thinks that is "normal". That is NOT normal. If you are going to send your kids out to play, make sure they aren't being jackasses! At least WATCH them! Don't just send them out and go "hey they are someone else's problem now". Not cool!

Now I'll describe the events that transpired. It was hell. It's always hell. Not because of my kids, but because of EVERYONE else. I may overreact about a few things, but I am VERY cautious with my kiddlings. I'm not a helicopter parent to my 3 yr old daughter, and I keep a close eye on her (just in case she wants to "fly"). I am not like the other parents in that I don't let my 1 yr old (who can barely walk on her own) play on the equipment. I let her play in the grass beside me while I watch the two of them play. Neither ever goes far, and my youngest knows the meaning of "no". I can call out a "Hey DD1 NO!" and she will stop what she is doing immediately.

We showed up, my daughter immediately grabbed her stuffy and headed for the slide. Like always. There were 4 parents on the play equipment, with their younger kids that can barely walk and 2 toddlers that obviously didn't need their "help" playing. My daughter was forced to play around the parents and kids. (By the way I love it when other parents yell at my daughter to shut up when she's squealing in delight. She's a kid, deal with it. Public outside place asshole, not your house. There is no such thing as an "inside voice" when you are OUTSIDE.)

Mind you this play equipment isn't very "stable". Having just ONE parent on it is pretty risky, so I was keeping a close eye on my kids and checking to see how stable it was the entire time. Not a good start for playtime. Not a good idea for the idiot parents to get on it, especially when majority of them are obese! At least wait until some of the kids leave and you are mostly alone before you park your fat ass on the top.

Obviously she wasn't having much fun, what with it being overpacked and the parents obviously in the goddamn way. She couldn't even make it to the slide. Some fucking jerk was blocking it. I mean a "parent" was blocking it. Guess what! His oldest kid wasn't even on the play equipment! His oldest kid was playing in the grass! Get the fuck off the play equipment! (His wife was watching and holding the other one on the equipment)

But to make matters worse, whenever she wanted to go down the slide (which is a lot!), she had to squeeze her little body past his (he was basically humping my daughter) and then go down the slide. That went on for a good 2 hours, all the while his kid is NOT on the play equipment. Pissed me off entirely. If that's not a pedophilia move, it's pretty fucking close. Do NOT make MY kid hug YOUR body just so she can play on a slide, you fucking perv!

I'm very leery of strangers around my kiddling, let's just say I was getting irritated within the first 10minutes of it. We have a ton of pedophiles living around here, so I'm very cautious. After a while though, she eventually stopped playing with the slide and started talking to the other kids on the ground.

The ground of this particular playground is made out of old rubber tires for padding on the ground. You can pick up the old pieces and move them. It's like the old playgrounds with the pieces of wood on the ground. The older kids like to throw the pieces at each other, regardless of whoever is around. I make sure I am at a good distance away with my youngest (so she doesn't get hit), and that I am making sure to tell my DD1 not to throw them too.

Another theory of: if you actually watched your fucking kid, you wouldn't be forcing your kids' bad examples on mine! I'm getting tired of telling my kid not to follow your kids' examples. IE throwing rubber pieces, climbing slides the wrong way when kids are coming down, hitting kids in the face before they even get up after going down the slide, and of course cursing!

She seemed fine after a while, but I suddenly hear the guy humping the slide call out "Don't throw that stuff!". He wasn't talking to my kid, but I was a little miffed by his yell. His kid isn't on the playground, and his other kid (prolly the age of 7months) was with his wife right next to him. So obviously, either get your kid off the playground and don't yell at other people's kids...or get yourself off the fucking equipment.

Granted, I'm a little miffed because I didn't say anything. I never really say anything about this type of thing because I don't want parents down my throat for "yelling at their kid". But in my head I'm having a conversation with myself. This is how it went down:

- "What the fuck is he complaining about, his kid shouldn't even be on the playground! Hell, his eldest isn't even nearby! Who knows where the fuck that kid went."

- "Well, if that's how he's going to yell about throwing things...maybe I should yell at him for blocking the slide and being a pervert!" (Seriously we have 90 pedophiles living in a 5 block radius of my house, I worry about it a lot)

- "I hope to god DD1 doesn't try to throw stuff today."

- "Where was his yell when HIS kid came within an inch of hitting my daughter on the slide!" (She had gone down the slide and was picking herself up. He pushed his kid down the slide - knowing my daughter was at the bottom - and I had to run fast to grab my daughter out of the way)

That's pretty much where I had to get up and scout a bit holding DD2, to make sure he wasn't yelling at my kid. Granted I was watching, but now I've been alerted to an overactive parent. New parents, aren't they cute? But basically, she was having a lot of fun, so I let her continue to play.

Aside from his wife holding the too young kid on the playground, her HUGE (about the size of my DESK) ass blocking the kids, she made a comment that pissed me off. My daughter is a little social butterfly. She doesn't really talk, but she says "hi" and jumbles words to other kids. My DD1 went up to the 7month old (remember younger sister, she's used to younger kids) and was talking. I called out to DD1 to go "play". Meaning for DD1 to leave the kid alone, and get the fuck away from crazy husband's wife. Just covering my bases, you know.

Then she says "It's fine". ?! Imagine my shock when I heard that. I know she was probably trying to be polite, but I was not a happy camper. With that one sentence she underminded what I had told MY child to do, and was basically overruling my reaction to her and her husband. I didn't WANT my kid near HER or HER KIDS! Obviously it's NOT fine.

I know I may be overreacting, but still...she underminded me in one sentence and that was enough for me to lose it and eventually leave. I dislike parents that get involved in my kids' life. I don't know them, I don't want my kid near them. End.of.story.



But aside from today, I have years of bad parents to post about. I'll post a new story tomorrow. Maybe I'll tell you about how everytime my husband goes with us to the play area, ALL the kids run up to him and call him daddy. We have yet to figure out why they do that, or why they are always trying to play with him. Seriously people, play with your fucking kids but be respectful of other people's kids!