To wonder how some people can lack total awareness when it comes to their children and behaviour

[Driftingthoughlife]

On holiday and tonight was the kids club talent show which they have been rehearsing for today and making costumes
Most of the kids are singing or dancing
During the show this little girl starts running and screaming on the dance floor which totally drowns the little boy on stage. At this point you can see people looking round wondering who this child belongs to.
The next child does a card trick- Cue the little girl running up on stage and grabbing the cards of the table and flinging them. At this point the kids club rep steps on stage and asked for parents of the little girl to come and get her- finally a women stand up and goes and gets her with a right grumpy face on
During the next act the little girls starts running up on the dance floor again screaming while a little girl is singing and the mum starts filming her running around!!!!

The girl on stage ends up in tears and again the rep steps in and asks that noise is kept down. The Mum storms into the dancefloor sweeps up the little girls and walks out glaring at the rep. We think that is the end of that
Two acts later the mum is back without the little girls and starts filming a boy on stage which we assume is her son. Half way through she actually turns round to the the table behind her and gives a massive “SHUSH” to them.
At this point everyone is looking round at each other some look annoyed some look amused at her behaviour.

After her son has finished she sits down and the next act which is 2 girls doing gymnastics starts. Suddenly the little girl runs back in with a guy chasing her (think it is dad) runs up to girls on the dance floor doing gymnastics and collides with one of the girls coming out of a cartwheel.
The Mum storms up grabs the little girl who is in tears storms back stage and comes out dragging her son with one hand and her daughter with the other shouting about the shit organisation and she will be complaining that her daughter got hurt. She leaves dragging the kids with the husband following sheeply behind.
Everyone is kind of stunned into silence until the rep who had come on stage to check the girl who had been doing the cartwheel was ok said “on with the show and the 2 girls started again”
Guess who we will be avoiding down by the pool tomorrow?

We were on holiday a couple of weeks ago and had a meal ruined by 5 children in the restaurant one night. They were with an extended family of we presumed grandparents and a couple of sets of parents who all did absolutely nothing while they were running round, in and out, shouting and screaming and jumping on chairs. The adults would occasionally 'Sshh' at the top of their voices but it was useless.

The next day we realised the whole family were the ones making the noise at the top end of our corridor. When we came back from the pool they had all their washing drying on top of the hedges crushing the hibiscus flowers so they obviously gave no shits about anything.

They weren't British.

Ugh, there's nothing worse than being a captive audience (basically trapped) when parents let their children run out of control. We were sitting in the front row of a packed movie theatre when the family next to us let their young daughter start twirling around up and down the aisle right in front of the movie screen - in the middle of the movie! The whole audience had to try watching The Last Jedi with a girl twirling up and down along the screen, naturally the parents were oblivious to 300 people glaring at them. The girl would sit down for a minute but then be back up twirling again. I was just about to tell them to make their child sit down when another man marched up to the girl and placed her back in her seat and he said "stay in your seat" in a firm voice. The parents looked outraged but he got a massive round of applause which seemed to finally get the message across to them that the entire audience did not want to watch their precious daughter ruin the movie. Movies aren't cheap these days either!

The vast majority of parents work exhaustingly to keep their children in check but it's always the few awful parents that we remember!

Maybe the little girl had autism and this was the first break the parents have had in years?

Well that was quick. Even if she did she shouldn’t have been allowed to disrupt the other children’s performances. After the first episode she should have been removed. Anyway, I don’t suppose she did have special needs as I would imagine the obviously entitled mother would have been screaming it from the rooftops had this been the case.

If stuff like that happens in a movie I’d complain. If people aren’t pulled up in behaviour then they will keep doing it.

Get the staff in or demand a refund.

I had this the other day on a routemaster bus. Two women with a little girl who looked approx. 3.5/4 got on. Turned out both women were girl's mothers. At first she started off well behaved - sitting opposite me - then she took her trainers, socks off etc (her feet smelled and her trainers were filthy so all over bus seat) and then she was climbing up and down the bus seat where the metal part was to try to get to her other mother who was sitting on seat below. at one point she was in her mother's face with her climbing. Both mothers had different parenting styles, the mother with her was more 'gentle', the one who wasn't with her more 'firm'. I know from these buses that if they brake harder and you're messing about on seats etc you can be thrown about. No sign of autism here either.

I've got a 4.5 year old myself so know they can be challenging but one thing I have taught her is my word goes especially if we are out in public. I don't care if it comes across as stern or not. I do see a few parents who are definitely of the 'gentle' type with 'spirited' kids and I shudder and avoid them.

I have a child with severe autism and learning disabilities and his behaviour can be very challenging(so yes autism an be an excuse for behaviour) however either we would just not take him to stuff like this because he can't cope or if we did we would remove him as soon as the behaviour started