The restaurant thread nearly got me started on all the bad parenting I've seen. I thought I'd start a thread on horror stories instead
The retaurant examples I have would take all day, but what's the worst example you've seen of child behaviour because of lax parenting? A couple of mine date from way back when I was a dept. manager in a home center;
I'm talking to a female customer at the end of an aisle, while her child methodicaly rips the carded packages off of the pegs. When he finishes a peg he moves to the next one. After a full row of this, I finally paused and asked her if she could make him stop destroying the packages and the display. She glared at me and declared he was doing nothing wrong and she certainly wasn't about to pay for any of it (I didn't ask her to).
I find a very small child (6 or 7?) walking down an aisle
swinging a hatchet back and forth thru the air with both hands! They were pegged way out of reach, so someone must have left one lying where he could get it. It was fun getting it away from him let me tell you. We had to page the kid's parents to the front of the store. They didn't even realize he had wandered off, and weren't concerned about the hatchet.
