Are you kidding me?

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Originally Posted by DanaC

usually they're child-centred fuckwads .....and that's their job. Inconvenient as that is the for those of us without any small people to look after and annoying as it can often be (particularly the inconsiderate sounding woman in the second example) it really is part of what makes us survive as a species.

Well they oughta be CCFWs but often they are SCFWs, letting their kids tear ass all over and act out because the parents are afraid of their own spoor. I'm not bragging, but when I tell the inch3 to do something such as "let's not throw rocks" (looooong before they are aimed at people, mind you) he listens. Even in the midst of his supposed terrible twos he is really well behaved. A big part of that is being aware of what is going on the the world of him. A pretty simple world really:
eat, sleep, play, cuddle, read. repeat. If a parent is willing to pay attention to a kid and anticipate kid's needs they can head off tantrums when they are at the butterfly flapping its wings in south america stage.

/soapbox