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• Thursday, November 10, 2005 04:18 PM

  can you say baby sitter?

  I don't think parents should be allowed to bring their kid everywhere.

  Kids now are all-too-often spoiled brats. If their parents are too lazy to discipline their kids consistently, then either stay home or hire a sitter. Do NOT inflict your failed parenting experiments on a world of innocent bystanders. If the choice is that you not be allowed in adult friendly public places with your little fiends, thus dooming you to prison with them at home, or to endure their miserable company in what would otherwise be a peaceful adult environment---do not expect the world of innocent bystanders to acquiesce just so you can have a work release furlough for a few hours.

  The Supernanny is a tv show that is doing as well as it is because there are millions of parents in the world for whom "Sometimes it's just not worth fighting over" has become a parenting philosophy. What Jo Frost teaches is that only by being consistent in discipline do children grow up to be tolerable. Because parents are not willing to spank, or even to consistently insist on their way of doing things, their kids act like little beasts all of the time. How can they possibly stand by and watch this aappalling behavior and not be shamed into correcting it?

  If you make your kids tolerable, they will be tolerated. If you allow your kids to be appalling behavioral messes, they won't be. That simple.

  —Impatient Read Impatient's other letters
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