HOW PARENTS CREATE PINOCCHIO

While she went to the counter to pick up the food order, Mom left her blonde curly-haired, dimpled darling at the table in the small eatery.

Upon her return, on the restaurant wall was a huge smearing of ketchup and mustard. The ghastly sight was only a few steps from where little Ms Dimples was sitting. The only other patrons in the area were two elderly women.

Who might have created this unartistic mess? A reasonable person would know the elderly folks didn’t. A reasonable parent would know, without a doubt, their kid had misbehaved. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many reasonable parents out there these days. Instead we’ve got a bunch of ‘em taking a wild stab at raising kids that the rest of us are having to put up with.

Ms Unreasonable Mom asked Dimples IF she had decorated the wall with the condiments. What would any kid answer, when confronted with a choice concerning what even the kid knew to be a punishable deed?

Ms Unreasonable Mom seemed to think it was time for discussion. After the first shaking of the blonde curls by the kid, Mom asked the question again. and again. Each time the repeat response was more adamant then the first and delivered with little arms folded across her chest and a “you don’t trust me” scowl on the kid’s distorted face.

Ms Unreasonable – middle name Mom – let the issue rest. Since the condiment containers on their table were empty, she reached onto another table for the ketchup and mustard needed for their hotdogs.

Uh, huh! “She said she didn’t do it!” was Ms Unreasonable’s confused response to my alarm at how she handled the  situation when she told me the story.

This  Mom knew good and well who put the stuff on the wall
  and she  should not have asked, “Did you do this?”

Ms Unreasonable Mom set her kid up to tell a lie
.  The issue should have been confronted – head-on.  Management should have been asked for cleanser and rags
 and under Mom’s supervision, kid should have cleaned the mess as best possible

No condiments from another table – dry hotdogs become one of the consequences of this intolerable behavior. Too many unreasonable parents think this type of behavior from their offspring is cute. In my reasonable style of parenting – there are no cute kids.