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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 465905" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>The thing with Duckie was the you did ALL you could to help her. You also did NOT take her to a flea market or thrift store to browse for hours. Kiesta, you stopped taking dd1 with you. You are NOT the type of parents that Star is upset with. I see what Star is talking about - here it is the late show of R rated movies. They take their little kids, give them coke or red bull or even put 5 hr energy in their bottles - YES, I have SEEN this with my EYES at a movie - the child was not old enough to walk but mommy got a 5 hr energy from daddy and put it in the bottle so "she can enjoy the movie too since we had to pay for a ticket for her" - at a movie that barely escaped an X rating or is a major action movie or is a slasher movie. Our movie theater started charging for infants at the late shows because the parents will leave a kid in the carseat and go sit 5-10 ROWS away, not seats away, that many rows because the child's crying is keeping them from seeing the movie!!!!</p><p></p><p>Our local thrift stores have mgr's that call 911 at abandoned kids - parents get ONE chance to keep them under control - the sign that is posted. After that? No one bothers to find the parents - they call the cops. The cops find the parents and deal with it. Our cops are not fond of it, but they take care of it. It has kept people from leaving kids alone all over the stores. </p><p></p><p>I will confess that when Wiz was 2-3, we would go to the local bookstore and let him stay in the kids dept. We did this AFTER I spoke with the mgr, who I knew and who knew Wiz, and most of the employees, also people I knew and who knew Wiz. I did this AFTER they told me several times that it was okay. I still never went more than 3 aisles away or and checked on him every 2-3 minutes. I also did not allow him to yell, scream, cry, or make a mess. Most of the time he left the area cleaner than he found it with-o anyone telling him to. AND he put them back alphabetically by author. It was the ONLY place I allowed it, and if I didn't know the people who worked there, including mgmt, it would NOT have happened. Heck, quite a few times they tried to get me to leave him there all day because they had so much fun with him - and yes, this was the mgrs asking. Made me laugh, and did not happen.</p><p></p><p>by the way, the movie theater (only 1 in town) started charging for infants at the evening shows and all R rated movies because so many parents were taking kids and letting them run wild. One parent tried to get the theater to pay for a new outfit for her child because the child got stains on the clothes from crawling on the floor - kid could not WALK and was crawling under chairs and chewing on people's legs - literally biting them because mommy just turned the kid loose! It is nuts. Now? if you see a child at an R rated movie with-o a parent right there? You tell mgmt or an usher and they call the police for an abandoned kid. So many parents would let a kid loose to crawl/run around, or put the carseat in one row and move away because the kid was "bothering them" or because someone told them to hush the child. Used to be a child in a carseat was free here. Not any more, because things like this. Makes me SICK. </p><p></p><p>It should be harder to have custody of a child than it is to have a pet. It just should.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 465905, member: 1233"] The thing with Duckie was the you did ALL you could to help her. You also did NOT take her to a flea market or thrift store to browse for hours. Kiesta, you stopped taking dd1 with you. You are NOT the type of parents that Star is upset with. I see what Star is talking about - here it is the late show of R rated movies. They take their little kids, give them coke or red bull or even put 5 hr energy in their bottles - YES, I have SEEN this with my EYES at a movie - the child was not old enough to walk but mommy got a 5 hr energy from daddy and put it in the bottle so "she can enjoy the movie too since we had to pay for a ticket for her" - at a movie that barely escaped an X rating or is a major action movie or is a slasher movie. Our movie theater started charging for infants at the late shows because the parents will leave a kid in the carseat and go sit 5-10 ROWS away, not seats away, that many rows because the child's crying is keeping them from seeing the movie!!!! Our local thrift stores have mgr's that call 911 at abandoned kids - parents get ONE chance to keep them under control - the sign that is posted. After that? No one bothers to find the parents - they call the cops. The cops find the parents and deal with it. Our cops are not fond of it, but they take care of it. It has kept people from leaving kids alone all over the stores. I will confess that when Wiz was 2-3, we would go to the local bookstore and let him stay in the kids dept. We did this AFTER I spoke with the mgr, who I knew and who knew Wiz, and most of the employees, also people I knew and who knew Wiz. I did this AFTER they told me several times that it was okay. I still never went more than 3 aisles away or and checked on him every 2-3 minutes. I also did not allow him to yell, scream, cry, or make a mess. Most of the time he left the area cleaner than he found it with-o anyone telling him to. AND he put them back alphabetically by author. It was the ONLY place I allowed it, and if I didn't know the people who worked there, including mgmt, it would NOT have happened. Heck, quite a few times they tried to get me to leave him there all day because they had so much fun with him - and yes, this was the mgrs asking. Made me laugh, and did not happen. by the way, the movie theater (only 1 in town) started charging for infants at the evening shows and all R rated movies because so many parents were taking kids and letting them run wild. One parent tried to get the theater to pay for a new outfit for her child because the child got stains on the clothes from crawling on the floor - kid could not WALK and was crawling under chairs and chewing on people's legs - literally biting them because mommy just turned the kid loose! It is nuts. Now? if you see a child at an R rated movie with-o a parent right there? You tell mgmt or an usher and they call the police for an abandoned kid. So many parents would let a kid loose to crawl/run around, or put the carseat in one row and move away because the kid was "bothering them" or because someone told them to hush the child. Used to be a child in a carseat was free here. Not any more, because things like this. Makes me SICK. It should be harder to have custody of a child than it is to have a pet. It just should. [/QUOTE]
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