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Original poster

Puppet show and 'entitled' kids

53 replies

Partridgeinapeartree1 · 14/02/2017 23:50

That's it really. We went to a puppet show today. Part of a 'cultural' visit,what with it being half term. There were six to eight kids bumrushing the show and talking over the puppeteer, manhandling the props and writing their own script. All very loudly and ruining the experience for our kids whilst their parents looked on ineffectually. The poor artist who was supposedly giving the show had to crisis manage and cut the experience short. AIBU to be fucked off by this middle class pissy parenting?

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PuddleJumper01 · 15/02/2017 00:22

But I thought we were ALL middle class on here. Am I mistaken? Surely no one nouveu riche?

BillSykesDog · 15/02/2017 00:23

Air freshener is very non-U.

DesolateWaist · 15/02/2017 00:25

Bumrush.

I just wanted to say it.

TheClaws · 15/02/2017 00:28

Desolate I already said it.

SarfEast1cated · 15/02/2017 00:29

I am extremely working class and would have pelted the naughty kids with my jellied eels and pearly buttons. Surely someone at the theatre could have said something?

VenisonIsBloodyDeer · 15/02/2017 00:30

OP - I agree with you, there is some shocking parenting about and it's really poor when out of control kids spoil things for everyone else.

It's disappointing that most people here care more about you saying middle class than what you described but sadly that's how things are here.

TheClaws · 15/02/2017 00:31

Partridge what class are your kids, if the other kids were badly behaved middle class kids?

PuddleJumper01 · 15/02/2017 00:31

I think you are bumrushing me, Bill, with your (clearly) working class rump.

DesolateWaist · 15/02/2017 00:32

Surely the working class kids are all out playing in the street while their mothers Donkey stone the steps.

TheClaws · 15/02/2017 00:34

Venison, actually, I do agree with the OP. Many kids at performances these days are unrestrained chimpanzees.

BillSykesDog · 15/02/2017 00:35

I thought all working class kids over the age of 9 were either pregnant or in jail?

HemanOrSheRa · 15/02/2017 00:36

I love the word Bumrush. It is in the same category as Chamfer.

Beeziekn33ze · 15/02/2017 00:43

User - good point!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 15/02/2017 00:46

Another one asking. WTF is bumrushing.

user892 · 15/02/2017 00:55

Yanbu. I don't know why some parents haven't taught / don't insist on their kids remaining seated on their fucking arses during a performance. It's basic manners.

user892 · 15/02/2017 01:00

Just sit still and stfu, innit. Ineffectual idiot parenting indeed... Learning how to behave in a theatre show (unless deliberately interactive) is just as important as table manners.

reuset · 15/02/2017 01:13

Poor parenting and 'entitled kids' is not confined to the middle classes! How on earth did you work out their social class?

Agree about your other points, but there are always parents like that wherever you go. They siply haven't taught them how you're supposed to behave at a performance/other given situation.

reuset · 15/02/2017 01:13

simply

MommaGee · 15/02/2017 01:19

Whilst I agree the kids were clearly playing up / the parents needed to intervene / the puppeteer is not cut out for the line of work, how do you know what class the parents were and what is your superior class of parenting,?

AIBU to be fucked off by this middle class pissy parenting?
Yes - lazy parenting does not know class boundaries and if your parenting is so much classier, take the little darlings elsewhere away from the riff raff

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Partridgeinapeartree1 · 15/02/2017 01:31

Maybe we are the riff raff. Who really cares. I just a heard weak/mousey attempt at "Thomasina come on poppet" when she was terrorising a kitten/scaling a ten foot wall/trampling a flower bed all in one delightful swoop

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Partridgeinapeartree1 · 15/02/2017 01:34

Before the puppetry carnage....

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Beachedwh4le · 15/02/2017 01:46

worra how long until OP regrets posting this?

MouseClogs · 15/02/2017 01:55

YANBU OP and this weird schoolyard piling in to fabricate an instant in-joke against a clumsily-worded OP is bizarre and puerile and leaves quite a sour taste.

I think the middle classes will probably withstand the criticism, TBH, and it's not without founding - obviously it doesn't apply universally but there IS a certain subset of parenting mentality that is chiefly middle class (albeit presumably a v small percentage of middle class folk) that hinges upon giving kids free reign to misbehave on the basis that they're simply "expressing themselves" - makes my teacher friends' lives a misery, am regularly agape at some of the "please don't berate Freddie again in class for clobbering his friend, he is high-spirited and meant no harm and your words were violent and oppressive"-style tales.

Birdsgottaf1y · 15/02/2017 02:22

Watch The Royles Jim Royce says Bumrush, it's probably his own saying, it was common in Liverpool (where I'm from/live).

I'm WC, I've experienced the type of families that you describe OP and they'll use every argument they can to justify their weak Parenting.