Had enough of unruly kids? A Singaporean netizen recently went on Reddit to share a frustrating encounter with a child that left them feeling annoyed.
In a post titled “SG parents make bad parents”, they wrote: “Parents these days don’t scold their kids until someone else scolds them for you. Then they get pissed at another adult disciplining their kid.”
The OP recalled that earlier in the day, they had been standing behind a child around eight or nine years old, while waiting to buy snacks. The kid, who looked to be about 120cm tall, apparently did “some acrobatics” to reach the snacks, stretching so far that they ended up pushing the OP.
They wrote: “After the third or fourth time I told the kid, ‘Don’t push me please’. The parents immediately turned around. I told them ‘I’m not trying to push your kid but your kid keeps pushing me’.”
To the OP’s disappointment, the parents simply replied: “It’s like that one, anyway we are done.”
“The parent did explain to the kid that I was probably waiting for my turn, [but seriously, why else would I be standing behind them]? They then loudly announced they wanted to get out, to [be passive-aggressive] to me,” they added.
Reflecting on the experience, the OP bluntly declared: “Parenting is really terrible these days, if it were me, my parents would apologise on my behalf and tell me not to push people.”
