I hate seing someone spoil their child?

What the fuck business is it of yours?

Yeah...

Aparantly my piece of shit phone doesn't let me hit the reply button and reply to individual messages, but thanks for the responses. I'm glad there are people that agree with me. I actually feel like if I'm in the same room as a spoiled child, whether he/shes screaming like a brat for what they want, or whether they're calm and an adult is simply giving them a ridiculous amount of smothering and sweets, I feel the need to get up and leave the room. A few years back, my aunt and her 6 year old spoiled brat moved into the flat at the back of our old house. She would come in to MY kitchen and ask and cry and scream for MY cereal and then her mom would look at me like I'm the antichrist if I didn't give in, which I never did. One time her barbie plastic bowl was dirty in the sink, and she refused to eat out of any other bowl. She screamed like a banshee at everyone including my grandmother until I eventually threw her shitty little bowl over the wall into the vegitation in the neighbours' garden. Not my finest moment I know, but I was 16 and wasn't as good at controlling my irritation as I am now. Just shows what little spoiled children do to me.

Totally agree. I work for a family that is incredibly sleep deprived, over worked and adjusting to new changes in their family dynamics. I do understand that these factors play into it, but they are raising spoiled brats they can't control...and I have to pick up the pieces at the moment, only to have any progress smashed to pieces the second mum or dad take over. They are actually good parents, they just fuck up, like anyone does.

The bit that frustrates me the most is when I discuss setting boundaries and shit with them, and they genuinely believe that they already do :/ their almost three year old screams loud and long enough, he gets whatever he wants, no matter how unreasonable. Then I look like the bd guy because I refuse to let him have the blue plate because he screamed at me instead of asking nicely...or he smothers the newborn and doesn't stop when asked to...but no actual intervention is made tol the baby gets hurt. Ffs.

It's fucking annoying and it's echausting to deal with, and it's just going to amplify :/

Yes and trust me, it shows when the kid is older. I've seen loved ones buy hundreds of dollars of crap and spend their last few cents that were set aside for bills or medication to keep their teenaged children from pitching fits.

Those kids grow up thinking that them wanting something automatically entitles them to it and don't understand how Mom and Dad can buy themselves a car and a roof over their heads but an IPad is out of the question. They're kids who need a detailed explanation as to why they can't receive what they want.

I know that some of these kids are the same kids who grow up and come into the workforce with us who pitch fits when they don't get the promotion or who sit there and bitch at the waiter for not having their favorite wine in stock.

Shit, my Mom works at McDonald's and during storm season on Guam, typhoons often interrupted their shipments so they'd be out of stock of many items. She said she could tell the difference between the Natives and older sailors and the younger and upper class folk just off the loud speaker. The former would be quite content with something else off the menu, the latter acted as if she had run out of the only device capable of pulling a stick out of one's bum.

K rant over.