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I like to watch it at times, but always am amazed at the degree to which many parents allow their children to behave as they do. The very idea that kids hit the parents, swear at them, and scream, and carry on with their brattyness just maddens me no end. My daughter once said something snippy, and insulting to me in front of a new girl in the neighborhood, and in a flash I automatically slapped her face so hard, and fast I didn't know I was about to do it. I then asked the girl to go home, because Carol was NOT going out, and I had things for her to do. All I had asked her to do before going out in the beginning was to wash the lunch dishes. She just went out the door, laughing with the girl, and I politely called her back. She pouted, and was nasty, so I tried to get her to laugh by chucking her under the chin, and singinging "Smile,darn you,smile. Her comeback was, "Why don't you close your mouth, and hide your broken tooth?" NO WAY would I take that from one of my kids, and she never did it again. In later years we laughed about it, but by then, she had had a "difficult" child of her own, so learned she wouldn't take it, either. The parents are supposed to be in charge; not the children, and the sooner the kids learn that, the better. You are the parent, and shouldn't try to be on their level thinking you are being good to them. They don't look at it that way.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and you cry alone.
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