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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
i'm very rarely annoyed at children. I frequently want to throttle their parents.
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Amen.
Children, especially those under 5, are largely the product of their environment and the behavior that has been modeled for them. If they've never been taught that a thing is inappropriate, they're not to blame for their ignorance--their parents are.
For instance, I know a kid who
must sleep with a nightlight. This became a problem when he tried to sleep over at someone else's house (I was babysitting them at the time). His friends didn't want to sleep with a nightlight, and he refused to go to bed without one. And it really isn't his fault--he's 9. It is his parents' fault for enabling him to go with a nightlight for so long. If they'd weaned him off the nightlight when he was younger, he wouldn't have this problem now.
Parents dictate how their children behave. If they aren't willing to set boundaries and play the bad guy once in a while, of course there are going to be problems.