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If a kid is acting like an **** in public and their parent is doing sweet **** all about it, then I think anyone who has to tolerate the little **** has every right to say something, regardless of whether they've had kids or not. There are some really shitty parents out there.

Argus's assertion that we should be smacking other people's kids is ridiculous. However, there is something to be said about going out for dinner at a nice restaurant to unwind after a long week when the parents two tables over are letting their kids literally run around the restaurant screaming and climbing onto tables of other patrons.

Do you think the restaurant manager should have kids before they say something? Or do you think its the parents' responsibility to be a little more considerate of other people's space by keeping their kids in line? And what if they don't? When is it appropriate for someone else to say something?

Now you're changing the goal posts by bringing up badly behaved kids in a restaurant right after you misconstrued my argument by saying I'm shaming childless people?

I wasn't talking about kids in a restaurant, I'm talking specifically about this ridiculous type of thread... kids are **** because their parents raise **** because nobody smacks their kids anymore.

There are lots of shitty parents who don't set boundaries, who don't follow through with threats, who do all the kid's chores for them and allow the kids to talk back to them, of course, nobody denies that.

But this BS about making a correlation between decline of smacking and bad behaviour is nonsense and typical of someone who doesn't know what parenting is about.

Correlation doesn't prove causation.