Annoyingly rambunctious kids in inappropriate places and the parents who refuse to do anything about them.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/05/granderson.bratty.kids/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


This article perfectly sums up everything I was thinking at the grocery store last week. The grocery store is not your child's playpen!

I swear, I was trying to navigate through Whole Foods' produce section - and was stopped dead in my tracks every which way I went because some stupid woman refused to rein her kids in to get the hell out of my way. I was infuriated. This is not the first time this has happened to me.

I do not know what crack parents are smoking that compel them to believe that everyone else is perfectly fine with their kids running around like madmen in places like grocery stores. When I'm at the grocery store, I want to get everything on my list and get out of there as quickly as humanly possible. Unfortunately, it rarely happens due to two things:

1. Children
2. Very, very old people

There is NO excuse for the first. Elderly people on the other hand get a pass, (although they shouldn't be driving so I wonder how they got there in the first place but that's another post for another blog that I don't have).

Anyway, I was thrilled to see this piece and agree with LZ Granderson completely. Discipline is a good thing people. Uncontrollable brats are not.

If we kid, they will know and fear "the look."