"Suffer the children"

A small corner of yesterday's paper caught my eyes. "Sumiko Tan to parents: Can't get your kids to behave? Keep them at home." I rolled my eyes. Finally someone shares my sentiments. And on national paper some more... I itch to read. Hehe.

I took the LifeStyle section of today's paper. Cover read: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
(in the same font color too).

Flipped more, found her column.
"Suffer the children" read the title.
"It's clear now that I'll never have children and be a mother, but in any case, I've since become allergic to kids" writes Sumiko.

I couldn't agree more with her on her last phrase ~ allergic to kids.

I read on and found that I could relate to most of the incidents that she has vividly described, well done.

"... if a kids persist in disturbing the public peace - not to mention leaving their sticky fingerprints everywhere or worst, their puke and pee - why can't they just stay at home?..."

".... I must resist a desire to scold and smack them... But I'm not their mother and if there's any disciplining to be done, it should be by my sister. I'm not there to teach her how to be a parent... Indeed, we child-free people know by now that nothing makes parents angrier than when we comment on the bratty behaviours of their bratty kids..."

Oohhh... How very true. No matter how their parents know their kids' irate behaviour, they will never want another person to tell them point blank.

"Why can't parents train their childen in proper restaurant and cinema etiquette, or desist from bringing them to such places until the kids have learnt manners?"

"In fact, we child-free folks do understand that children are by nature boisterous. If kids misbehave, it's their parents' fault, really, for not being able to manage them better."

I couldn't agree more on that. Definitely.

And it's not that I don't lurrrve kids. I like them, but not when they misbehave or become boisterous and totally out of control. Don't give anymore excuses that they're just kids, they don't really know how to differentiate the rights & wrongs (hello, fyi - they're like sponges. They absorb most when they're between 1-7 yrs old). And don't brush it off by saying they're just hyperactive. Bottomline, don't give yourselves bladdy excuses. You guys brought them to earth, you've got to be responsible.

And I hate it when others tell me that I'm not a mother yet, and thus, I do not know how tough it is, worst still, they tell me "Wait for your turn as a parent before you comment more."

Ouch. It's that a curse I hear?! Then oh no, now that I've been cursed, what should I do now?

Shuddup?! Not me, your kids should.