RachelMarie
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- Apr 9, 2009
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Ok, so we just took a trip to Florida. We drove down with a friend of a friend and her 2 kids (a boy (6 yrs old)and a girl (4 years old)). I've met her kids once or twice but never long enough to really get to know them. Well, come to find out, her kids are 100% brats. When I say "Brats", I mean rude, disrespectful BRATS. The boy treated Callie (My daughter who is 3) like crap. He smacked her a few times. Would say really mean things to her. Steal her toys. Just plain, Walk all over her. When they didn't get something they asked for they would scream (which in return would get my daughter screaming). The little boy even went as far as kicking me in the side over and over because I sat on the couch he was on. ugh. When I would ask him to smile for a picture he would give me a dirty look and scream "NO". Things like that. He was the worst of the 2. I don't think I've ever met a child like this.
Of course I stood up for my child and when we were all together and he started these things I removed her from the situation and played with her or found another child for her to play with. I also talked to her about how he was acting. Callie isn't around kids who fight like they do, or scream for no reason so when he would scream Callie would lose it. He would scream for 45 minutes in the car because he didn't get what he wanted and get Callie to cry so hard she was gagging. Once he realized he could do this, the game was on and everything went to hell.
So, on the way home I rearranged the car seats. I put Callie on the end and the little boy on the other end, little girl in the middle. The ride home was hell. 20 hours of hell to be exact but the last 5 hours more so than anything. Him and his sister would seriously start fist fighting while the mother would say "I'm done yelling. Let 'em fight it out". Of course the little boy picked up is blanket that he couldn't live without swinging it at his sister and then my daughter. The blankets were taken away and they started screaming and their Mom was totally okay with everything that was going on. These kids just do NOT get disciplined but of course She thought her kids were the best kids ever and totally thought I was nuts for talking nice to Callie when all hell broke loose in the car.
I'm totally pissed at this point. I've never in my life seen a child this young get away with this kind of things. The minute we got home I sat Callie down and talked to her about him. I let her ask questions (which she did) and told her that THAT is the reason I discipline her. I stood up for my daughter when we were around but what I really wanted to do was Grab this kid and beat the crap out of him. I've never dis-liked a kid SO much in my LIFE. It was really hard to bite my tongue and not tell him AND his Mom what I truly think of them.
Anyways...the moral of the story is...Before you take a 20 hour car trip with a family you don't know...Try to figure out EXACTLY what you are getting yourself into. Because you might just be stuck in the car with the spawn of Satan for 20 hours. My kid is NOT an angel by any means but she is not down right mean, she respects people. That being said, she is THREE. She has her moments just like every other kid. But when she acts up...She gets punished.
I will NEVER allow my child to be around this young boy...EVER. I don't care what the reason may be. It's pretty damn sad when my 3 year old acts older than a 6 year old. Needless to say, the Mother of these kids and I didn't talk for the last 3 hours home. I just kept repeating in my head "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". And at that point i had NOTHING nice I wanted to say to this girl. I wanted to deck her. The only reason I even heald that back is because she had talked me into driving HER car. If it was my car, I would have gave her gas money back and dropped her off somewhere with her 2 spawn of satans.
I'm just so annoyed.
The trip other than that was good but would have been 10 times more relaxing without this crazy family with me.
Of course I stood up for my child and when we were all together and he started these things I removed her from the situation and played with her or found another child for her to play with. I also talked to her about how he was acting. Callie isn't around kids who fight like they do, or scream for no reason so when he would scream Callie would lose it. He would scream for 45 minutes in the car because he didn't get what he wanted and get Callie to cry so hard she was gagging. Once he realized he could do this, the game was on and everything went to hell.
So, on the way home I rearranged the car seats. I put Callie on the end and the little boy on the other end, little girl in the middle. The ride home was hell. 20 hours of hell to be exact but the last 5 hours more so than anything. Him and his sister would seriously start fist fighting while the mother would say "I'm done yelling. Let 'em fight it out". Of course the little boy picked up is blanket that he couldn't live without swinging it at his sister and then my daughter. The blankets were taken away and they started screaming and their Mom was totally okay with everything that was going on. These kids just do NOT get disciplined but of course She thought her kids were the best kids ever and totally thought I was nuts for talking nice to Callie when all hell broke loose in the car.
I'm totally pissed at this point. I've never in my life seen a child this young get away with this kind of things. The minute we got home I sat Callie down and talked to her about him. I let her ask questions (which she did) and told her that THAT is the reason I discipline her. I stood up for my daughter when we were around but what I really wanted to do was Grab this kid and beat the crap out of him. I've never dis-liked a kid SO much in my LIFE. It was really hard to bite my tongue and not tell him AND his Mom what I truly think of them.
Anyways...the moral of the story is...Before you take a 20 hour car trip with a family you don't know...Try to figure out EXACTLY what you are getting yourself into. Because you might just be stuck in the car with the spawn of Satan for 20 hours. My kid is NOT an angel by any means but she is not down right mean, she respects people. That being said, she is THREE. She has her moments just like every other kid. But when she acts up...She gets punished.
I will NEVER allow my child to be around this young boy...EVER. I don't care what the reason may be. It's pretty damn sad when my 3 year old acts older than a 6 year old. Needless to say, the Mother of these kids and I didn't talk for the last 3 hours home. I just kept repeating in my head "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all". And at that point i had NOTHING nice I wanted to say to this girl. I wanted to deck her. The only reason I even heald that back is because she had talked me into driving HER car. If it was my car, I would have gave her gas money back and dropped her off somewhere with her 2 spawn of satans.
I'm just so annoyed.
The trip other than that was good but would have been 10 times more relaxing without this crazy family with me.
