Tag Archives: childrearing

What’s Wrong With This Woman?

I’ve written about bad parenting in the past.  Crazy parents naming their children after Nazis.  Idiots who put their children into beauty pageants.  And who could forget that loon in England who gave her child a gift certificate for plastic surgery. Well, there’s no shortage of these numbnuts.  The latest comes from New Jersey.  Patricia […]

HELICOPTER PARENTS ARE HOVERING

“They’re called ‘helicopter parents,’” my niece said.  I don’t know how this slipped by me, but I had no idea there was an actual name for parents who overparent and refuse to let their children take responsibility for their wrongdoing or impose any consequences of their children for their own actions.  In other words, these […]

TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN

Recently, the owner of a Pittsburgh-area restaurant changed his policy and has banned children under the age of six from his establishment because they regularly disrupted other customers’ meals. Mike Vuick, owner of McDain’s Restaurant and Golf Center in Monroeville, PA, is at the center of this big controversy. Speaking for myself, I have no […]