What parenting habits annoy you?

Of all the things people ask about on here... (how to get kids to listen, sleep in their own beds, use a sippy cup) what annoys you most about other parents?What parenting habits annoy you?
Lack of consistency and pure laziness -- then they ask why their kids aren't listening to them. Well, they aren't disciplined (note, I didn't say punished). Kids need rules and schedules.What parenting habits annoy you?
When they have 20 kids in stores and let them act like idiots
I really try not to let what other parents do annoy me because I do believe everybody has a different parenting style. However, there are a couple things that are just wrong:


Letting your child run all over the place in a store/bank/general public place where it is not acceptable to do so. I am not talking about, 'oh little Johnny got away from me for a minute and ran ahead'. I'm talking about the people in the laundromat who think it's ok to let their 4 year old play in a dryer. Or the parents of the 7 year old in the food store who let him run around on his wheelies and knock into 8 months along pregnant women (no, I didn't fall. yes, I had to restrain my husband from killing him).


The second thing is screaming obscenities at a child and/or telling them they ruined your life. That is never, never, never acceptable. I do not care how upset you are at your child, screaming curse words at them is not the answer. And I don't know what it is lately, but twice I have heard different mothers tell their child ';you ruined my life';. One even said ';you ruined my day and you ruined my life - are you happy now?'; A child does not forget that.


Other than those few, I can't think of anything else. Good question though.
nagging, embarrasing you, fighting over STUPID things, picking on little stuff, not understanding you. asking invasive questions, taking your stuff,
nagging,yelling over stupid stuff,hitting,scolding for no reason ect
That they just don't take time to understand their own child. Their own flesh and blood. They just need to relax and spend time with the kid and they will get it.


I though I was the only one annoyed by these parents.
Helicopter parents, parents who won't listen to their kids, controlling parents, parents who sweat the minutia, parents who can't relax and enjoy the cool human beings who are their kids!
when your walking down the high street and you hear some one yelling , you turn around and its a mother screaming at there 2 or 3 yr old child i thinks its jus wrong , they dont understand they are being naughty , that why we have to guide them and tell them.
when you let the kids scream and cry,run around in the store,when you swear at them, when you don't correct their miss behavior.when you reward them for their bad behavior.
Things I have actually witnessed parents doing in public that drive me up the wall when I see them happening!:





parents who let their kids run through stores alone like hoodlums and then act like they had no clue they were doing it when someone says something.





parents who are more concerned about blabbing on their idiotic cell phones rather than paying attention to kids in a parking lot or while driving.





parents that tell kids no and to stop bad behavior and then they turn around and reward them with candy at the check out counter. It only reinforces misbehaving not good behavior!





parents who are too busy filling their carts with junk food and garbage rather than healthy food when you see them and their kids way overweight.
I hate it when a parent yells at a kid ';SHUTUP!'; and then hits them.
I hate when parents want their babies to grow up too soon. Babies are suppose to be dependent and you cannot spoil a baby oh and toddlers are exploring not trying to manipulate.


That and all of the spanking parents should teach their children not punish, humiliate, and hurt them.
I hate when parents are always bytching at their kids with non-stop stuff like, ';Quit it. Stop it. Don't do that. What have I told you. etc.';
I'd say the horrific ';cry it out'; method is high on my list. In general, it makes me very sad when immature parents put their own wants before their children's needs.


I'm also EXTREMELY tired of the spanking questions! Really, how many are asked on here per day? People need to search for the question before asking it; chances are, it's been asked before.
parents who have sick kids and spend time on yahoo instead of getting there kids to a Doctor.
When a parent tells their kid no, or to stop doing something, but then goes back and leaves the kid do it, or gives in to whining. 'If you behave, I'll give you candy';, Also, the 'one-uppers'. You're so proud to tell someone about your child and they come back and say, 'oh yeah, well my kid...' The ones who judge other parents because of ONE THING they saw.
I get really annoyed when another parent can dish out answers and advice but not take it themselves or when they are in denial about their own children's issues and pass judgement onto other people under the false pretense that they are the perfect parent with the perfect child.
I can't stand those parents that dont' watch their kids when they are in a store. They just let them run around and take things and put them in their mouth and get made when you make them pay for it. blah.
being abusive to their children both verbally or physically abusive.
it bugs the heck otu of me when i am in a store and i can hear a kid cryign and screamign and throwing a fit across the store and when parents are abusive to their kids or when they don't pay attention to them and jsut tell them to go watch tv ro go play in yrou room i am busy when really they aren't they jsut dont' want to deal with their kids


but i think more than all of those things the big one that bugs the heck out of me is when parents give into their kids whining and when they throw fits sorry but jsut discpline yrou kids for crying otu loud
Swearing in front of the kids.