Your kid needs a leash, and you need a swift kick in the arse

As my profile says I am a wife and a mom. The mom part out weighs the wife part. Hubby gets it, it's fine he's an adult and doesn't need guidance. My daughter is three and a half and a psycho. Not like the kid from Pet Cemetery, but nuts. She's a quirky little child who says things like "hey mom I made a poop pie" as she sits on the toilet. I asked her where she heard this from and she says Brian. Brian is hubby's friend from Toronto who visited last summer. I highly doubt he has been emailing her with things to say that make me crazy. She does go to daycare so I will assume for now that she hearing these odd phrases from there. For the most part she's pretty awesome, although sometimes I find myself looking for the receipt that she came with. I'd even consider store credit at times.

I should be allowed to shake the shit out of parents who shouldn't have been allowed to breed in the first place.

In our family hubby is the soft one like most dad's who have adorable daughters. She is daddy's princess and she knows it. However, this little princess knows right from wrong for the most part. Three years old or not we make sure that we are doing our best to raise a responsible member of whatever community she lives in. I'm sure that most parents don't wake up and say "Ya know I really hope my kid grows up to be a huge stain on society", but sometimes I wonder what exactly they are saying to make themselves blind to their kids actions. I must be getting that old person mentality (without the weak bladder) because I've never in my life have said "kids these days" so much.

I look around and all I see is a range of brats from 3-21years of age all acting the same. Some of the kids at the Pipster's daycare are horrid and the ones running around at the mall and in public are beyond me. The Pipster even says to me "why are they being so bad?" If a 3 year old sees this, we have a problem folks. The parents either have given up or don't give two shits. Well let me tell you...I care because those kids will be going to school with my kid and they better start simmering down before they rub off on her. Don't these parents realize their kids are not behaving like the rest of our children? Do you not see a problem with this? Actually you do, because I hear you scream at them in public places so we all take a gander at your awesome parenting skills. If the Pipster acts up and I say we're leaving, we leave and she goes to bed. END OF STORY. Why? Because hubby and I pay the rent and are smarter than you kiddo.

The Pipster is smart and hubby and I are good parents and I have no problem tooting my own horn about that. Now I've known kids who have great parents, but the kids are just dicks. That's when you get a military school pamphlet and put in on your fridge until they're 18. I'd take a loan out of the bank to send her there if she wants to play those games. I'm confident that she'll do amazing things in this world, big or small, but my heart aches for those kids who run wild like Ferrel cats with no guidance.

...and vise versa.