PreTeena by Allison Barrows for April 23, 2020

Either leave the kid home with a babysitter or take care of them at the restaurant. Other diners are not your kids’ babysitters and neither are the servers.

Well, the class will learn something about manners, just not in the intended way.^^

While this is very humorous, I find it all too true. I experience people like this [male AND female] way more often than I’d like. And they either don’t have the slightest idea…or they just don’t care. I don’t know which is worse.

And this is why we have takeout, delivery, and ‘Happy Meals’.

Typical young person, that teacher. Perpetually offended by the imaginary rudeness of others yet completely blind to her own actual rudeness.

One time, when our girls were much younger (about 6 & 8), we went to have lunch at our favorite buffet place. It was early, so there were quite a few empty tables. Soon after we were seated, another couple came in. When the hostess (also the manager, who knew us well) went to seat them near us, they asked to be moved because they didn’t want to sit near “those kids”. The hostess tried to tell them that “those kids” were well behaved, but they wouldn’t have it. Soon after they were seated the place started filling up. A family with 3 extremely boisterous boys came in…and the only table that would accommodate them was right next to the couple! We saw the couple look over at us: at our girls sitting nicely, using chopsticks, talking quietly with us.

This brought back memories of Dad. “Do you want to go outside?” (The answer was NO!!!!! There are no witnesses outside!) However, I taught to behave, and so were my children.

This display of arrogant selfishness is so on point right now.

So, she’s is a good example of a “don’t be like…” ?

At her level of self-centering she would have to stoop to be arrogant…