Crying kid in diner ignites Facebook war between mom, owner

[Warren DeMontague]

69. Yeah, whatever. You don't "teach" a 2 year old not to melt down. It's their wiring.

You keep ignoring the fact that the child in question here is 2. If we were talking about a 6 year old, or a 4 year old even, it would be a totally different story.

But since this is obviously going to inevitably degenerate into another one of these tired DU threads where people trot out tropes to axe grind against, and tilt at the imaginary windmills they have in their heads- it's already happened, in fact- let me add this:

All the bullshit one hears on, say, political websites where the demographics skew a bit ...older than the internet in general, crap about "in my day" and grousy bullshit about screens and minecraft and "special snowflakes" and "everyone gets a trophy"; I'm gonna add this, and then I'm done playing:

The first special snowflake generation has grown to voting age and is largely responsible for putting a Democrat in the white house for the past 7 years (and, in the process, protecting the social security of people who piss and moan about 'those kids today'). You're welcome.

The "everyone gets a trophy" kids matured into "everyone should have the right to get married" adults. Funny how that works.

But, you know, back in the day shit was done so much better.