"We don't tell our son 'no,' it upsets him"

My girl and I went out to dinner with a couple of friends last night and they brought their 2 year old. No worries. I don't have an aversion to children unless they're acting like animals. And while my wife doesn't want a child (probably ever), she likes our friend's kid and thinks he's really cute.

Everything is cool at first. Eating. Laughing. Enjoying ourselves. And then little dude starts tearing up napkins and throwing them all over the floor and on the table. I laugh at first waiting for them to tell him to stop but they just ignore him. It gets to the point where the little bastard has a small pile of trash under his chair from the napkins he's been shredding.

I get up, pick up some of the trash, walk to throw it away and then move the rest of the napkins out of his reach. Then the kid flips his shite and stars screaming. His mom hands him another napkin and he resumes doing his thing. My wife was like "uhh..he's making a huge mess..."

mfw the other chick responds, "we don't tell him 'no,' it upsets him."




These are two perfectly normal, caring parents. Cool people actually. And they're going to turn that kid into a monster.

If I would have done that, my dad would have immediately told me to stop. And if I told him to frick off in my own 2-year old kind of way, he would have taken me to the bathroom and put the fear of God in me. So many people out there that are unfit to be parents. Including those two.

sad