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In reply to the discussion: Adults that spoil kids aggravate me [View all]Whoa_Nelly
(21,236 posts)I wish I could say I pity you your lack of humaness, humaneness and general all around ability to have compassion for a child, but I can't and I won't. Your post speaks volumes to who you are at the core of yourself, and you forget you were once a child.
My take on kids in any of the given situations you described, and regarding any of the children in your scenarios, or whatever the hell it was you were trying to represent in some pseudo-sophisticated manner...
I just bend the kids to my gentle will, bratty ones and wild childs alike.
I'm always happy to give some love to any child, and most often we end up being friends with respect for each other.
Even if the parents are present and doing any of those things of being "bad" parents as described in that beyond-the-darkside-of-feckery piece you wrote, kids are still kids: ignore the parents without them knowing it, and respect the kids for one moment...it leads to more moments of something that can make a difference.
It's all about recognizing the human and being one, too.
Yeah.
You fail as writer and a human.