I really do adore my friend Daisy, but her daughter, who I will refer to as Child X (age 8) is now so off the charts crazy that I don't know if I can bear to be around her anymore.
Last night my husband, Daisy and Darren, Child X and my two kids were at a restaurant. My kids order chicken nuggets and french fries. When the waitress asks Child X what she wants, she says:
"A New York Strip."
Daisy anxiously: "And no salt and pepper on it or she won't eat it."
Darren: "And no sauce."
Child X: "And medium rare. If it isn't done right you will hear my screams!"
The steak arrives with mashed potato and asparagus.
Child X: "I won't eat that because there's vegetables on the plate."
Me: "So what? The meat isn't even touching the potatoes."
Daisy and Darren remove vegetables onto their plate then proceed to cut up the steak for an eight year old.
What else does Child X eat I hear you ask? Well, believe it or not, Child X only eats steak, strawberries, ice cream and maybe bread?
The father Darren, who is nuts, I believe either forgets to put anything in her lunchbox or just can't be bothered, knowing she won't eat it. So recently the school phoned up and asked why they weren't giving her lunch and Darren replied: "Oh we have a great deal of difficulty thinking of what to feed her."
I believe the school now think they are deliberately starving Child X.
Child X also sometimes eats ice cream for breakfast and screams for up to half an hour until she gets her way.
My point is Child X is a tyrant who has her parents wrapped around her little finger. Child X is also totally selfish and my kids don't like her anymore. I just don't want to tell Daisy directly that Child X is a nightmare, or maybe I should.
I would so like to put Child X into some kind of boot camp for spoilt brats where they make kids eat generic chicken nuggets. I would love to hear her screams .... She needs sorting out that one does. Do you know any annoying spoilt brats and do you dare tell the parents they've raised a Little Hitler?
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I just don't want to tell Daisy directly that Child X is a nightmare, or maybe I should.
the teacher in me is about to come out. daisy knows. there's no way a child would act like that in a school setting without the parents being conferenced. that being said...this woman needs an intervention or that spoiled BRAT will grow into an impossible adult and fail miserably at a happy life. you're doing everyone a favor by speaking out.
just be prepared for the backlash of overprotective parents. wear a beekeeper suit perhaps.
She sounds like the sort of fucking little brat who would do well to have my (or anyone's)foot up her ass. Have you seen this:
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2007/12/03/are-you-raising-a-douchebag.aspx
I rest my case.
OOPS...
This is the original one:
http://men.style.com/details/blogs/details/2007/11/are-you-raising.html#more
screams for up to half an hour until she gets her way.
Her parents need educating. With consistent training I can slap for two hours without a pause.
My kids eat what they are given or they go hungry.
If they whinge they are locked in their room.
They now eat pretty much everything - but not necessarily on the day that you give it to them. Didn't eat your beans tonight -that's fine; but you get them cold tomorrow and nothing else, until you eat them
I was somewhat of a picky eater when I was a child, and my daughter was moreso. Given my experience (and later broadening palette) I was not willing to say "eat this or starve". We made some accommodations, such as favoring dishes for dinner that she liked when she was small. When she became old enough to fix some food, we'd tell her if she didn't like what we made to go make something for herself. However, she was never as limited as this kid, and I would have never bought her a strip steak in a restaurant fer godssake! I think in this particular case they need to introduce the concept of "eat this or starve." And as to the screaming, the first thing is that the kid must understand if she ever screams in a restaurant, that will be her last restaurant meal for at least a year. And if she screams at home, there must be something she loses each time and the parents must never give in.
Get the sour little bitch into a NASA programme, train her up, then send her into orbit with a capsule full of astronaut-food sticks.
In space...no one can here you scream...
Let Child X (no relation) scream her fucking head off. It's easy to NOT throw a tantrum for longer than the kid does. Outlast her, then proceed from there.
what a brat.
Starving her is the answer - only for a day or two. A teach mealtime however you put a normal plate of food down in front of her - it's important to give a child the choice - I guarantee after a day or two of refusing to eat those vegetables are going to smell pretty damned fine... It's just a case of the parents toughing it out: the kid is a nightmare because they're so weak.
Oh dear, what hopeless parents!
My friend Myn's youngest dauther is a nightmare. She killed my sons hamster be squeezing it cause she liked to see it's eyes pop out. In front of 5 other children, who all had nightmares from it.
holy crap, stephen is hardcore with the parenting!!
(i don't believe a word of it, i bet you're a complete walkover, stephen)
as for ChildX?
i feel sorry for that child. what sort of parents allow that behaviour?
shite parents who aren't doing their child any favours. a lack of boundaries and discipline will mean that she'll find it extremely hard to fit in at school and keep friends.
I'd force feed her field rations for a week personally. She would soon have the shits and soon be delighted to eat meat and two veg.
Wow. Now I'm going to not only have nightmares about this child but also from Trixie's comment!!!
Daisy and her husband need to each grow a pair and become responsible parents. You can talk to her all you want, but unless someone teaches her how to handle a child's demands, things won't change!
And somewhere out there there's a little boy who is happily living his life, unaware that he is going to end up the husband of this high maintanence brat.
Your friends need lessons.
I second liberal banana, i am going to have nightmares from Trixie's comment too! ugh... yuck!
make's child X not look so bad.
Emma you are usually quite forthcoming and i have a feeling you are going to tell daisy anyhow in some inadvertent blurt you can't hold back. so i would tell her in a tactful way before it slips out in a less tactful one.
as you well know, i feel pretty good about the "Child Xs" i have given the heave-ho to with no regrets. You can still stay friends with daisy if you want to, and hope for the best.
Well, yes. Most children I know, I want to send into space a la Fingers. Then again, I DO realize just how annoying it can be, having no chillrens yet proclamating left and right to parents about how to raise theirs. So I'll just shut mah mouth.
But you, you should definitely open yours.
kara....
the problem is, daisy has made her the way she is, has let her get her way. The problem is the dad he is a real anti-social nut and the girl takes after him.
just be prepared for the backlash of overprotective parents. wear a beekeeper suit perhaps.
that's the problem, i want to be friends with Daisy but lose the brat and the husband
Karen ^..^...
what a funny article!!!
Angela-la-la...
She absolutely needs someone like you to go all Nurse Ratchett on her...I fear she is beyond help
unique_stephen...
My kids eat what they are given or they go hungry.
are you serious? that was definately the scenario when I was a kid but I didn't know anyone was still so strict. I think you are doing a good thing actually.
Al Sensu...
No you don't understand, she has a strip steak every day! Even at home. And she's not even royalty!!
Nuts nuts nuts
ever screams in a restaurant, that will be her last restaurant meal for at least a year.
she always screams in restaurants and then gives some half arsed excuse to Daisy like "It was too loud in there and my head started to hurt and I couldn't take it." Daisy: "oh that's all right then."
fingers...
a most excellent idea
xl...
that is genius
Mars...
the parents are at fault though, really
Steve...
Yeah I think the parents indulge her but I don't really know why or what the point of it is because it just makes life that much harder if she'll only eat four foods!
Gorilla Bananas...
they need our sympathies
Trixie...
She killed my sons hamster by squeezing it cause she liked to see it's eyes pop out.
I shouldn't laugh but that is so damned funny
the projectivist...
I wonder how Child X will cope for example when she goes to college and realizes that the world doesn't revolve around her?
Midnight...
I think I'd rather eat tree roots than field rations!
Liberal Banana...
I know, I know, that image Trixie brought up is so gross and so funny!
I'm too scared to talk to Daisy about all this!
Misssy M...
And somewhere out there there's a little boy who is happily living his life, unaware that he is going to end up the husband of this high maintanence brat.
oh God, I didn't think of that!
Kira...
But if I tell Daisy then it will be a criticism of HER and she will be upset and she is the nicest person in the world and I don't want to hurt her feelings.
See you never knew i could be sensitive did you? I prefer to put my head in the sand.
And I don't see how I could still be friends with Daisy, tell her, oh yeah your daughter is a brat can you never bring her around here? it wouldn't go down too well I think.
Is corporeal punishment still a bad thing? A good smack with a ladle or a pan should do the trick.
Child X didn't get like that on her own. She wasn't born like it. She may have had 'tendencies' but it's taken lots of years of her parents colluding (albeit unconsciously) to get her that way.
Would Daisy consider some sort of parental training?
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I'd be direct about it.
Do you really want to be around people like that ? The kid is making everything a misery and the parents ought to know that their lack of control is having REAL consequences. It's no fair on your kids to be around that moulee either.
I think everyone knows a kid like that. She's going to grow up to be a horrible person and most likely never be happy either. I hope they get some help ASAP while the problems are still correctable. I had a neighbor who's little girl used to say the most horrible things to my GF. The parents would just shrug and say "we can't control her" or give her some sort of gentle verbal admonishment. Geesh, I wouldn't have been able to sit for a week if I ever did anything remotely like that when I was a kid!
electro-kevin...my problem is that Daisy is literally my best friend. She is honestly the nicest, most fun person and I have known her eight years. I think maybe she is trying to make up for her own tough childhood by spoiling the kid. I just can't bear to not be friends with her but I can see that my kids can't see Child X anymore.
I know alot of kids like this who actually RAISE their parents! I dun get irritated with such kids, I actually wanna punch the parents to sanity.
Keshi.
in answer to the projectivist.
No really.
Screaming tantrums get one warning then a three count - If we get to three then we gently but firmly put whichever kid in their room unitl about 5 mins after the noise stops.
Food just keeps getting re-offered.
They choose how much they eat. We choose what they eat.
A typical dinner might be:
2 Carrot sticks, 5 or so green beans, a bit of broccoli, several olives, a skinless honey soy baked chicken drum stick. 1 cup of milk but only after they had had at least half their dinner including all of at least one veggie) and after that water. Perhaps followed by some fruit. If they, for example, only ate the chicken then their would be no milk. We would offer yogurt with the fruit then the next night would be just veggies, probably the same veggies microwaved, until they were eaten or unsafe to eat. We don't get angry but we do not put up with on going tantrums.
Any kind of mucking around, playing with the food, crying = down from the chair and into your room until we are finished as a family.
Smacking (say pretty hard across the back of their hand with your fingers) is reserved for dangerous things like poking your sister in the eye with a pencil.
Less than .5 hrs a week of TV.
Lots of parent time, reading, drawing, talking, games and doing stuff with them.
No lollies except at parties (we are mean :-) )
This sounds like a job for the naughty step.
www.supernanny.co.uk
Although, if parents are feeding their children food that makes them actually sick and KEEP feeding it to them, I think that's not right. To this day I can't eat tomato soup or drink milk because of a babysitter forcing me.
But, I'm not a parent or a babysitter so maybe I'm wrong.
keshi.....
I actually wanna punch the parents to sanity.
I'm right behind you!
unique_stephen...
I admire you but I can never be all that consistent about discipline, like you seem to be.
That said my kids don't watch TV, hardly ever get sweets/cookies and people tell me they are well balanced.
Inchy...
We all know you just want Supernanny to yank down your schoolboy shorts and give you six of the best. And why not?
Kathryn...
Yeah at school you had to sit there until you had cleared your plate. I never ate the stuff just stuck disgusting stuff like liver up my sleeves etc.
Forcing isn't the best idea I think
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