OT: Children in Lounge revenge...
Jan 23, 2010, 8:11 am
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Guys, really...
First of all the use of the word 'assault' is darn right ludicrous. I purposely arranged a collision that could have just as easily happened by accident. In fact, everyone including the kid and the parents thought it was an accident (a few bystanders caught on that I caused it intentionally). It was this accident that initiated the opportunity for me to address both parents and kid on the behavior.
What surprised me was that given that this was indistinguishable from an accident the parents started blaming me first. They took no responsibility whatsoever.
First of all the use of the word 'assault' is darn right ludicrous. I purposely arranged a collision that could have just as easily happened by accident. In fact, everyone including the kid and the parents thought it was an accident (a few bystanders caught on that I caused it intentionally). It was this accident that initiated the opportunity for me to address both parents and kid on the behavior.
What surprised me was that given that this was indistinguishable from an accident the parents started blaming me first. They took no responsibility whatsoever.
It is like some people want to have children but still live like they don't. Having children is a lifestyle changer. You don't get to hide in a corner while the rest of the lounge raises your children, and then blame them when poor Johnny falls... I see it all the time at MCO.
Jan 23, 2010, 8:15 am
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Jan 23, 2010, 8:16 am
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It's amazing how emotional and out-of-control some of the responses have been. I just don't see there is a straightforward right or wrong answer. It's not so long ago that parents paid thought it right to pay very large school fees so that strangers could do a lot more violence to their children than tripping them up
Henkybaby, have you sent an invoice to the parents yet?
Jan 23, 2010, 8:18 am
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Here we go again. Another threat of much more serious violence than the very mild matter of the original post.
It's amazing how emotional and out-of-control some of the responses have been. I just don't see there is a straightforward right or wrong answer. It's not so long ago that parents paid thought it right to pay very large school fees so that strangers could do a lot more violence to their children than this.
Henkybaby, have you sent an invoice to the parents yet?
It's amazing how emotional and out-of-control some of the responses have been. I just don't see there is a straightforward right or wrong answer. It's not so long ago that parents paid thought it right to pay very large school fees so that strangers could do a lot more violence to their children than this.
Henkybaby, have you sent an invoice to the parents yet?
Jan 23, 2010, 8:24 am
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Jan 23, 2010, 8:29 am
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+1.. That is my point... A lot of parents seem to not realize that they are responsible for their children's actions.
It is like some people want to have children but still live like they don't. Having children is a lifestyle changer. You don't get to hide in a corner while the rest of the lounge raises your children, and then blame them when poor Johnny falls... I see it all the time at MCO.
It is like some people want to have children but still live like they don't. Having children is a lifestyle changer. You don't get to hide in a corner while the rest of the lounge raises your children, and then blame them when poor Johnny falls... I see it all the time at MCO.
Henky- will there be any action pics posted on A.net?
Jan 23, 2010, 8:32 am
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Jan 23, 2010, 8:35 am
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Lets say that a child is a total pest in any given situation. The parents do absolutely nothing. The child's behavior is even a risk to others. Talking to him/her does not work and the parents shrug you. What should you do? Nothing? Wait for him/her to run into someone by accident? Leave the lounge so they can have free reign? Or make the child aware of the risk it's taking?
Jan 23, 2010, 8:41 am
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Hindsight is 20/20 vision and maybe I could have better ignored them. All in all there was no harm done and the best case scenario is that both kids and parents learned something. I am of the conviction that it does take a (global) village to raise a child and overprotecting parents are the reason so many children misbehave. Having another adult point out (nicely or otherwise) that their behavior is intolerable is not a bad thing. Better you do it yourself of course.
Jan 23, 2010, 8:42 am
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Pretty easy: you did something to my kid - you are in hospital. You did something to my wife - you are in hospital. And my lawyer will settle the rest. You can call it vilolence. I'm calling it assymetric response.
Jan 23, 2010, 8:48 am
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Wow, 70 posts in just a few hours! Is it a crash? A strike? A fat person taking up the space of a skinny person? No! It's a child in the lounge thread! 
Jan 23, 2010, 8:49 am
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Laat kinderen kinderen zijn toch -- niet gewoon Hollandse, h? 
I'll leave it to Henk to explain what this means.
I'll leave it to Henk to explain what this means.
Jan 23, 2010, 8:52 am
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My kids behaving very well. I have no idea what really has happened there, but it is only parents who have the right to touch their children.
Pretty easy: you did something to my kid - you are in hospital. You did something to my wife - you are in hospital. And my lawyer will settle the rest. You can call it vilolence. I'm calling it assymetric response.
Pretty easy: you did something to my kid - you are in hospital. You did something to my wife - you are in hospital. And my lawyer will settle the rest. You can call it vilolence. I'm calling it assymetric response.
I am not advocating harming someone else's children, but maybe Henky should have tripped up one of the parents.
Jan 23, 2010, 8:52 am
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Lucky you they didn't get hurt. I tell you if that were my kids...
Jan 23, 2010, 8:55 am
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I would have if they had bothered getting of their *ss...
I am all for kids being kids (the translation of the Dutch statement) but I am also for children learning, by experience or otherwise.
Never had I expected this topic to take off like it did. Should I ask BA for compensation miles since the family was British after all?
I am all for kids being kids (the translation of the Dutch statement) but I am also for children learning, by experience or otherwise.
Never had I expected this topic to take off like it did. Should I ask BA for compensation miles since the family was British after all?