Thread: Parents! ugh!

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Ok, what is the deal with parents bringing small children into a Halloween store and then dragging their kids over to the scary gory props and deliberately terrifying their own kids? The kids are screaming and crying and parents are just laughing at them! Then, as if that wasn't enough, they drag the kids (still crying) over to the scary masks and put the masks on to scare the kids even more! Meanwhile, all the customers and employees are wanting the parents to make the kids STOP SCREAMING!

It's completely different if you are going into a Halloween store and the kid gets scared by stuff around, but to deliberately make your child scream and cry is just cruel. This is not the screaming "oh eeeek, it's scary, get it away!", this is genuine screaming, snot bubbles, possibly piss producing fright. Why would anyone do that to their own child? And the employees can't really say anything to the parents without the parents getting mad and offended and complaining to the management/corporate office. But........customers are more than welcome to step up and say something to those parents, so please do!

Halloween is supposed to be fun and scary. But how about saving the terror for when the kids are old enough not to wet the bed with nightmares? There is a middle ground between parents coddling their kids so that nothing remotely scary comes around them, and parents scaring the piss out of their kids, I just wish the parents would find that middle ground!

Ok... my vent is over..... thanks!

I love the 'scare' in Halloween, and had been doing this a long time before my children were born. When I would take my little ones out for TOT and we would come upon a "scary" house I always asked them if they wanted to visit this one. Most of the time thsy said NO!, and we would move on. I am not a fan of really scaring anyone's children especially your own, (exception the occasional jump out from behind the door and go Boo is funny), I even go out of my way on Halloween night not to scare the little ones. I am shocked to this day how many parents visit my haunt, and when directed not go into scary garage but just go to the front door because the garage is too scary for little Bob the Builder, they just say "He can hide head in my shoulder". I love scaring, but am shocked when parents behave this way.

Because it takes a liscense to own a dog, drive a car or even catch a fish, but any jughead can have a kid. Thats why.

Yeah, that's kinda cruel if the kid is terrified and screaming.
My little ones are used to seeing these things and are unimpressed by the stuff in the stores.

Next time capture it on your cell phone and call DHS. That is emotional and mental abuse. Heck I would post it on Youtube if anything.

Someone will recognise them.

Well, thats what my parents did to me back in the late 60's. Hmmmm, its making sense now!!

Some parents are just plain stupid. It's the generation. What happened to respecting people? Especially your own flesh and blood! I think kids need to be introduced slowly into the scary stuff. Traumatizing your children is not cool.

I couldn't do it to my son. I need all the help I can get from him during Halloween.

We went to a haunted forest a couple of years back, and a mother brought along her young (probably 5 or 6 y.o.) daughter. The child was TRAUMATIZED by all of the displays and scares (we even had a chainsaw murderer chasing us at the end, for crying out loud), and the mother was totally clueless.

Same reason parents take their small toddlers into a haunted house at Busch Gardens when there are signs posted EVERYWHERE along the line that it isn't for children under 10 years old!!!