Part of an ongoing series. See the original Children article here.
I’ve recently started taking public transportation to work. This, combined with my early-in/early-out schedule (I arrive at 7am and leave around 3pm - right when school lets out) means one thing and one thing only: I have to deal with a bunch of goddamn motherfucking kids getting on my subway trains.
Figure 1: The children are the future. The apocalypse is in the future. It all makes sense.
In an earlier post, I claimed that nothing was more indicative of the plight of black people than the ‘black’ grocery store. I was wrong. The single biggest indicator of the plight of black America is the behavior of our children.
My daily Metro ride from White Flint station to Woodley Park is usually the most peaceful 15 minutes or so of my day. There’s practically no one on the train. No one has their mp3 player turned all the way up so I can hear exactly what songs they’re listening to with earbud headphones all the way on the other side of the fucking train. There are no whinos in the car either. I can sit in the elder-handicapped reserved seats and stretch out my freakishly long legs as I read a book or whip out my laptop to work on websites. Then we hit Woodley Park, and all fucking hell breaks loose.
Figure 2: Tactical Map of My Misery
At Woodley Park, 20 motherfucking kids leap into the train, knocking over old people and stepping on peoples’ shoes without even thinking to turn around and offer an ‘excuse me’ or ‘I’m sorry’. They fill up all the seats as quickly as possible, leaving the adults (especially the old people) who are legitimately tired to stand up the entire time. But the worst part of all…
They are all SCREAMING at each other.
It doesn’t matter whether they’re sitting right next to each other, or at opposite ends of the car. They scream at the top of their lungs. They are swearing profusely in front of adults, and not only do they not care - they seem to be proud of it. Ten year old boys are watching grown women walk by and saying shit like “yea she sexy as shit. I’d FUCK”, and they’re making sure the woman hears it. These demonic embryos are trying to mimic or assert adulthood by embracing the worst parts of being grown up.
At each stop, more and more of these little fuck-cunts jump onto my train. A feeding-frenzy of swearing, screaming, running, jumping, and property damage ensues that makes me feel I’ve been transported onto a pirate ship commanded by grog-filled midgets with plastic barettes in their hair.
Figure 3: …you get the idea
As I sit there with all five of my senses being assaulted by the little pro-choice justifications cutting up all around me, I can’t help but realize that one day these children will grow up, and there will be no hope for them. They will have no idea how to function in the real world. They will be listless followers of MTV and BET. They will watch Tyler Perry movies and actually enjoy them. They will be sociopathic and not even know it. They will be utterly unemployable. They will never take the Hippocratic Oath or pass the bar. They will be the reason Democrats raise taxes on me again.
The little shitholes finally make their exit at L’Enfant Plaza, leaving me with just enough time to regain my sanity before my exit stop at Federal Center SW. I walk four blocks to my condo, all the while avoiding the urge to play in traffic. I get home and pop ‘Idiocracy‘ into my DVD player for the 10th time. I realize that I’m not seeing comedy; I’m seeing into the fucking future.
Maybe the Mayans were right, and we’ll get lucky and have the world end on December 21, 2012.
I agree 100% I hate the little hoodrats that make riding the Metro a painful experience. They’re even more brutal when they crowd on to the bus.
wow. Unfortunately, I experience a similar commute, luckily it’s shorter.
What amazes me is that is the kids in uniforms that are the worst behaved. Folks argue that uniforms, private schools, charter schools, whatever, are “better” for our children and forget that they still have to instill manners and common sense in them.
The worst is when an adult tries to check these little bastards and they swarm like piranha.
I swear… this here should be the justification to beat the hell out of someone else’s children. Then turn around and beat their parents.
@ Admiral,
You mean we’re NOT allowed to beat other people’s kids? Uh oh… You might not hear from me for a while..
There is nothing worse than cussing children. It makes me cringe. Makes me want to slap their parents for not instilling some kind of respect for other people in them. By that time it’s too damn late though. Preteens, tweens, whatever the hell they want to be called are the most annoying SOBs to be around when they’re in a pack. More often than not they’re disrespectful just for the sake of being disrespectful, they DO enjoy screaming (wtf is that about anyway), and just annoy me.
I was in the food court one day and this big group, probably like 8 kids deep rolled up, got their food and then was playing around like they were at a frickin play groud. Loud, cussing, throwing food, belching and ish.. I just tried to keep my sons attention so he wouldnt hear all the mess they were talking about, and yea i coulda moved but i didn’t want too. It was all good until some food hit us and I got up and said ‘Y’all hit me and my son with some fries and I know you know it cause i saw you laughing. An apology would have been nice’. They all looked at me like i was crazy. For one, i felt really old and adult, i was them about 10 years ago, sans the barbaric behavior.. One of the girls was trying to push one of the guys to apologize and he just kept saying ‘Evan threw it! Evan threw it’ so we just left. As soon as i turned my back i heard them say ‘Did you hear that fu*kin b*tch demand an apology? Who the hell does she think she is?’. So I yelled back ‘don’t worry you’re about to find out’ and i went to get mall security.. disrepectful bastards!
Pretty much. I had to suppress going into a murderous rage last week on the Metro as some ashy, foul-mouthed, spitting, teenaged hoodlum cursed his way from Fort Totten to Chinatown and then treatened a man who tried to tell him not to be so rude. All the way I hoped that someone, perhaps a crazy ex-military officer would just snap and beat him until he was little more than a bloody lump of flesh writhing on the floor. Unfortunately though that didn’t happen so I just resorted to fantasies of strangling him with my purse strap…
as a car was passing me on my ride home from work the other day, a kid leaned out the window–to this waist!–to push me on my bike. i was able to regain my balance and not lose any teeth, but what the fuck?! he just leaned back in and high-fived his boys in the front seat.
Seriously, this is sad. 50 years ago, children were terrified to cut up in public due to fear that they would be disciplined by adults immediately around them; all before getting a more severe disciplining session from their parents. Now… adults are afraid of these “never should have been born” rug rats roaming free to terrorize the public because the children might be packing heat. What do I blame? Child abuse laws. We had this discussion before and I REFUSE to back down from my stance that parents should be allowed to enact physical discipline on their children. The pussy footed method of “oh spanking your child is abuse” has led the domino affect for these children’s downfall… with various forms of media and unruly communities falling in line for runner up.
You know, this makes me think of something that happened just this weekend. There’s a bad child that lives across the street from my house who insists on keeping himself in trouble. Chris will remember this child, as one day earlier this year this same child decided to walk up to my vehicle and begin playing with the radio antennae. Of course a quick tongue lashing from yours truly and Oscar drove the child away from my vehicle… but that instance doesn’t even come close to the story I’m about to tell you.
This same child decided to take a basketball and go ALONG THE ROW OF CARS IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE AND START BEATING EACH CAR WITH IT! I was in my kitchen preparing food when I heard the inevitable sound of rubber meeting metal in a slow rhythmic drum, as if something awful was approaching our houses. I looked out and my jaw dropped when I saw this happen. I was frozen for all of about five seconds… or until I saw him reach the end of the row of cars and then turn towards the row in front of my house.
Like clockwork… I ran to my door and yanked it open… but alas the woman next door had beat me to the punch and immediately began screaming at the child to stop bouncing the ball on people’s cars. I was grinning with glee at the sound of her voice. Meanwhile, several other people, including his mother had emerged from their houses and joined in on the melee. I didn’t even have to say a word while the spectacular tag team of the neighbors jumping down the mothers throat ensued as apparently her child was much more of a nuisance than I had originally thought. Irresponsible parenting is such a bitch. There’s another story that I’ll post later on… which outlines more irresponsible parenting and a sadder outcome.
–This makes me so mad thinking about it.
@ JUDD OMG!! That’s called Assault AND battery. hoodlums.
My husband teaches middle school and gets threatened on a daily basis. Stop feeding your children steriods and dog food so they are so big and loud in the 6th grade. BET and MTV are NOT allowed in my house.
The school board is scared of the principals, the principals are scared of the teachers, the teachers are scared of the parents, the parents are scared of the kids, and the god damned kids aint scared of NOBODY.
@ Admiral,
at least his mother joined in.
Most parents defend thier children acting like monkeys in the street. “You dont talk to MY child that way, Cmon Shashequa.” ” You betta raise the f#$% outta my child’s face!” and on and on.
…again, I refer to my man Mr. Cosby.
DUDEEEEEEEeee I have to agree with all of this. I use to take the train to work until I got my car and it was madness. All the little bastard children on the damn train loud as hell with loud ass music in ringing in their ears, scremaing at their friends talking about not a goddamn thing. One day I was going to slap this boy that was about 15 or 16 when I walked on the train one day going to see my mom for lunch. I was walking by him and all the other ppl standing up and he had the nerve to brush/ grind is dick on me while I was scooting through and said ” hey ma where you going girl”. I wanted to stop and knock his ass to the ground. But I didnt because a old lady was standing directly behind him. You know what I also hate those young ass girls that ride the bus that never gives her seat up for old ppl just because she is a women/ got her 1st fucking period I guess and have the nerve to talk shit about you and stare in your face like you stole her boyfriend. Not to mention the really small kids cursing in the back on the bus or train that are about 9 or 10 WHERE THE HELL ARE THEIR PARENTS AT. And these are the kids that are going to take care of us when we are old. GOD HELP US ALL SMH Thank god I have my car and work that is now 10 mins away from my house. But damn those gas prices. sighs…
I’d beat yo kids in a second
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See, that’s exactly why I’m that chick with her earbuds blasting Rock Band #12 across the bus when I’m riding to and from school. I don’t have time for that shit. Just let me find a seat, sit with my loud music or my book, and we’ll be good.
*sigh* i feel your pain…riding home on the bus last week or so, i had the “pleasure” of hearing an entire conversation, spoken at outside voice levels about how one of them was going to beat up somebody at school the next day because they spied that person having a “sidekick” cellphone and they wanted it…
on the train a few weeks ago, i got to hear a delightful conversation about condoms and why NOT to use them…all loudly spoken, peppered with the “N” word amongst a train full of white folks…
this is OUR future…
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Chris, you should just beat all of those kids on that train, just do it there parents are not around. Doing so would be a great service to the community.
I know this next thought is a bit extreme and will never happen, but…
I think that the government should put birth control implant into everyone that is getting a welfare check from them. This is help control bad parenting if they not allowed to become parents.
OH!!!! ESQUIRE JUST REMINDED ME….
SHE WAS DEFENDING HIM! Talking about, he’s just a child and boys will be boys and I see yo kids runnin around actin foolish, yada yada yada.
WRONG thing to do. I see it like this. In order for these children to respect their elders, is that the parent must agree that their child has done wrong and provide public humiliation therefore. THEN, take the child inside, return outside alone and have a word with the adults without any children present.
DC children are the saddest thing ever. I worked at Bertie Backus Elementary in NE for a spell teaching Playwrighting to children who would raise their hand to represent their neighborhood gang*.
Future Inmate: Miss Jamilah?**
Me: Yes?
FI: Did you know Sursum Cordas*** was up in this piece?
These same children wrote a poem about Coretta Scott King telling “the white people to kiss her ass” and submitted theses little gems:
“Malcolm X died by the pump/
Dudes get slumped/
Girls got humps/
Rest in peace Slush/
Sursum Cordas bust back….”
“Harriet Tubman/
Give me your number giiiiiirl”
I’ve been working in education for the past 3 years and I have many more stories. Not all are bad like this, but it went with the theme. I am trying to change fields this summer…..
*-DC doesn’t have Bloods and Crips, they have neighborhood/project tenement/block gangs. It’s weird.
**Because I had to let them call me by my first fucking name, because though they can pronounce LaShaQuaTraPrisonWanda, they couldn’t quite handle Lemieux.
*** Project tenement that is now set to become Sursum Cordas Condominiums.
Judd- that’s messed up he pushed you while your on your bike! Thats just cruel.
Esquire-Most parents defend thier children acting like monkeys in the street. “You dont talk to MY child that way, Cmon Shashequa.” ” You betta raise the f#$% outta my child’s face!” and on and on.
Yea I know a mother like that my fiancee’s baby mama.. OMGG I cant stand that woman everytime I see her when we pick up his daughter I want to slap her. Because what she does reflects off her daughter. She isnt even 5 yet and is already disrespectful to my fiancee. Sometimes I just want to pop her in her mouth for saying certain things to him. But I cant another persons child. But I tell you this if she was my daughter her ass OOOOOOhh this little girl would be saying Yes Ma’am and sir.
oh my god @ Judd and Mrs Epps stories. Judd - were you able to report that? And Mrs. Epps, you should kneed him in his tiny, dirty balls, regardless of who was around. I have to admit, I get scared of these kids, too. It’s hard to confront a mob mentality in public. I notice when other adults confront disrespectful kids solo, they don’t receive any back-up.
Oh God…pro-choice justifications indeed! What’s especially bad is that, probably the ONLY reason why kids act the way they do is b/c the adults in their lives let them get away with it. Parents today are too concerned with being their kids friends and making sure they like them, when they forget that kids aren’t supposed to LIKE you, they’re supposed to RESPECT you. And, as you’ve pointed out in a past post) the primary way that they can RESPECT you is if they FEAR you. Kids will learn how to behave themselves simply out of FEAR of the consequences that could be waiting for them at home if they make their parents look inadequate based on how they behave. But these days, it’s the other way around. Parents are afraid of their own children, and it’s a damn shame.
And now that I’ve said my piece, I’m going to go get a vasectomy. Deuces!
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Haha, this one was all love girl. I’m a complicated man
When i was growing up my neighbors were allowed to tap that ass and then bring me to my house where my grandmother would then tap my ass and when my parents got home i got the same deal.
If i was out on the street doing something wrong and someone from my neighborhood or that knew my fam saw me cutting up, they’d come tell me about myself and then call my grandma to make sure she knew for when I got home.
It seriously does take a village, if your kid only has respect inside the house and then acts a fool out in public and no one says anything what good is it? After a while i got the message cause i didn’t know WHO out there knew my fam so i was too damn paranoid to mess up. I can distinctly remember strangers coming up to me and telling me ‘you shouldn’t be playing with fire crackers, you shouldn’t be throwing the ball around like that when people are walking by, i saw you put that bag of chips in your book bag you better take it out and tell the man what you did, and i’m tellin your grandma too.’
No one cares anymore.. it’s always someone else’s problem. I won’t hit any one else’s kid, but i’ve *talked* to someone else’s kid many times in public. If it’s not right it’s not right, and i wasn’t raised to just sit there and be quiet.
@Sister Toldja
“Future Inmate: ”
ROFL
Bad Ass kids are not just in the metro areas. They are in SC too. Just this past weekend, some kid down in Chesterfield SC made plans to take out his entire prom. The kids down here are “bored” because there are no teen clubs and other such foolishness…teen clubs??? WTF? They call themselves making little fake gangs (baby guerillas, baby bloods) down here and shootin up shit. HUH? Go sit down somewhere. You dont even wear deodarant yet.
BTW: Jamilah is a beeeeeautiful name. Much much much better than JaQuan, DaQuan, Dededrick, Shawanna, Mercedes, Hyneefah, and Saquisha…some of my husbands students names.
@ Sister Toldja…
ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?
Man I don’t even know what to say to that.
And Judd… by chance did you get the plate number of that car? I’m sorry thats not just wrong… thats justification for retribution.
Mrs Epps: you have to be careful with the baby mamas. Its sad, and hard, but you cannot let a child disrespect your house, your husband, your beliefs. So let her act like a little monkey around her mama…but she knows what time it is when she goes to daddy’s house.
Everyone always focuses on the little boys, but these girls have the devil in them too. Stop it while you can.
Right I was this close to Tap Dacing on his face@ knatrualbeauty. But he had all his friends with him too. F that. But I did give him a look of death to him and his boys if he walked over to were I finally ended up on the train.
Esquire- yes bass ass kids are not just only in the metro. They are at the movies, the mall,school, basiaclly any public area there are hoodlums.
Me and my fiancee went to the movies last month and there was a teen couple in the back row where the girl was(im about 95% positive) was giving dude a BJ or HJ i was like WTF!! Like whats the point of you spending your money to go to the movies to get blown. Take that shit to the woods or something hahah
@ Mrs. Epps
There have to be some kind of house rules that she’s going to follow. And if you’re getting married you’re going to have to be able to discipline her somehow if she acts up. None of that ‘wait for daddy to get home’ mess. She won’t respect you.
I always tell my friends I have no problem letting their kids come over to play, but the same rules my kids go by, they go by, you don’t like it don’t come here. You can jump on the couch at home, over here you get to go stand in the corner..
You gotta catch her now because when she’s a teenager mouthing off it will be too late.. y’all will REALLY have problems then..
See that’s the thing@ Esquire she wont disrespect me she knows I dont play that shit. But its her Dad that she feels like she can say anything do anything she wants to him. I keep telling him he needs to do something about it ASAP because next thing you know she will be 16 only calling you for money for some Coach purse or something. Like what gets me is the crap she says to him and get away with. One day we all went out to the park to play with our dogs and I dont know what happened between leaving the playground and going home but this little fast mouth had the nerve to call her Daddy a loser(probably because she is so use to her mother saying it infront of her) and proceeded to say that he loved me more than her and that she hates him for that. My face turned red and I started to speed walk across the street with my feelings hurt and pretty pissed off that she even uses the words like “loser and hate” and she would think that he loves me more than her. She is only 5! So he stops her and I guess has a talk with her. I dont know what he said but it didnt work. So when she had something else smart to say I took it apoun myself to tell her that if she uses words like that in our house you will sit in the corner alone facing the wall since I cant tap her on her ass hahaha. But its hard sometimes because I feel like he looks at me in a way like DONT TELL ME HOW TO DECIPLINE my child, but he never says it. Man its gonan be hard when we have kids because I can tell you know I’m going to bad cop cracking the damn whip! He is way to sensitive when it comes to her. I tell him I know she is only 5 but shit when I was 5 hahaha i wouldnt even dream of talking to my mom or elders that way. I would be popped in the hand or mouth.
Thanks Esquire. May I add Lashaquana, Franisha and Raekwon to your list? I have had worse names, but I try to forget them.
Newark kids make DC kids look like prep school scholars. Newark kids tried to break in my car with a fork. They were seven.
Brooklyn kids are kinda rough too. When I first got there, I pulled up in front of an apartment I was checking out and these kids were playing ball outside. This little girl was like “Who are you? What are you doing over here?” I looked her square in the eye and said “My name is Ms. Lemieux and I am gonna live around here.” I’m also the same lady who looks after the kids in the neighborhood and helps em out. They need guidance and adults who aren’t afraid of them. Just talk to them like they are people.
Mrs. Epps…
It sounds like the child’s mother has more to do with the child’s mouth than anything. (shaking head) I bet the mother is an immature brat who doesn’t have the brains to figure out what she’s doing to her child. I’ve seen this all too often… especially with my GF’s sister and her children.
The discipline has to come from the root of the problem… her mother. Unfortunately, I fear that that may be FAR more easier said than done. Regardless, I think its all the child’s mother’s fault.
Right@ Lady… well we only have weekend visitation until the next child support hearing. But yes i agree with you on the setting rules for her. Because right now its like she thinks she can do whatever she want. Like I tell her to stop jumping on the bed and she will do it but if he tells her she will be like NO I cant do it at my house. I’ll be like well we aren’t at you house so get down. Like his assertiveness with her is limp. LIke he can’t say no to her.. its like a daddy little girl thing but F that. I tols him he need to crack that whip when she mouth off or she’;s goignt o think she can do it and its exceptable. She is def a little actress, extremly DRAMATIC. It’s so annoying sometimes. She is always crying about some small shit. She needs to toughen up a little bit. I told him that he should get her in to sports or maybe a summer camp where she can be with other kids. But the problem is that before she even tries stuff she she already gives up and says she can’t do it and gets that attitude Rolls eyes… Damn sensitive ass kids these days.. they are so pampered this litte girl has more Bath and Body works products than I do! So sad haha
@MRSEPPS
Well she is a smart little child, huh? She knows how to push his buttons. But what I try to remember with my stepson is that children (that age) will say things truly out of anger to hurt you. I suggest telling him that it really “hurts” you to see anyone, esp. a child disrespect him. You just would like him to be more assertive so that she does not walk all over him later in life.
Remember, you two are a team. And he has to do his part too. Because it will only get worse and she will flip on you or she will continue to “hate” on her daddy when she doesnt get her way. He has to try to undo what her mother has done, to a certain extent. (even though thats hard only two weekends out the month)
Worst case scenario: She will be one of those bad ass kids on the train teaching YOUR children how to be bad asses. My husband and I laid down GROUND RULES for his son so that he didnt try to kill my daughter or influence her in a negative way. When he gets mad, he says he wants his mommy. And I have to bite my tongue from saying your mama aint shit, because in the long run CHILDREN WILL FIGURE THESE THINGS OUT. As long as she knows her daddy loves her, your step daughter will figure out her mother is being trif. I promise you that. I watch Dr. Phil too much not to know that . lol
He has to show her he loves her by laying the whip down and demanding she respect him. unlike ghetto parents number 1 and 2 or rich white kids’ parents
PARENTS WHO LOVE THIER CHILDREN WHUP THIER ASS
i am so mad that i moved to Navy Yard and can no longer walk to work. waiting for a train at L’enfant Plaza would make anyone want to jump in front of a train on Monday evenings. only i can’t be too mad. i went to DCPS. i used to go to Jeff Jr High, and i used to hang out at L’enfant Plaza. when i take a hard look, things havent really changed.
“I know this next thought is a bit extreme and will never happen, but…
I think that the government should put birth control implant into everyone that is getting a welfare check from them. This is help control bad parenting if they not allowed to become parents” = Me *Dead
“Malcolm X died by the pump/
Dudes get slumped/
Girls got humps/
Rest in peace Slush/
Sursum Cordas bust back….”
I choked. Is this for real? You didn’t just make this up? Stop… I don’t even wanna know.
AF-It sounds like the child’s mother has more to do with the child’s mouth than anything. (shaking head) I bet the mother is an immature brat who doesn’t have the brains to figure out what she’s doing to her child
You know her to well. I told him this too! I think it is her. She is still bitter that he won’t take her back let alone really have anythign to say to her when he comes to pick her up. Her daughter calls his phone asking for me and tells her mom all the time that she loves me. YOU KNOW SHE”S PISSED because she def doesnt like me. ONe day this girl had the nerve to hit me up on myspace cursing me out saying I can have her leftovers and that she be dammed if I tried to act like I was her daughter’s mother. I have no idea where she got that idea from because at the time I only met my fiancee’s daughter about twice. bwhahah… She ahd the nerve to call me immature and to call her when I grow up. When infact she was the one who contacted me talking shit. So umm who’s immature again? Your 24 I’m 20. You’re an unemployed drop out living off your daughter’s $700 child support every month yes i said 700 fuckin bucks a month for one child and with your mother(who is cool as shit). Im in school graduating next from UMD college park with a job that pays more than $14 an hr!!!!! BITCH PLEASE!! Call me when you grow up.
See you could try to whip their asses, but then there’s always the possibitly of getting jumped like that lady did on that bus here in Baltimore a few months back by the end result of 8 or 9 pregancies that should have been aborted.
U remember that story AF?
@ Mrs. Epps,
Gettin blown in the theater? Hey, allow me to pull a shabooty and say sometimes ya gotta do what it do!
Oh! I got a story! I was at the Hoffman theater in alexandria catchin a movie with my mom. In the middle of the fuckin movie, this lil middle school cunt gets a call and starts yappin and laughing real loud ruining the movie for everyone around her. My mom, who is USUALLY a break your neck at the first sign or ignorance type of person, asks the girl to please hang up. This piece of shit slut bag gave my mom the nastiest and rudest look and kept talking.
Now, normally I’m a pretty laid back guy who avoids confrontation. But don’t you ever, ever, EVER disrespect my family. I snatched the phone out of that bitch’s hand so fast, turned it off and threw it over the hand rail. Don’t care where is went, don’t care if it broke. These kids just think they can mouth off with no consequences which goes back to my point a month ago. Ass whoopin’s are 100% necessary in the upbringing of a child.
Sarah, we’re rivals, I went to Deal (I know, I know).
Things have changed. Things seem much worse now. When I was between 11-16, my parents had an omnipresent power over me, and the fear that some random adult would embarass me in public kept me from being TOO disrespectful on metro, on the bus, in the movie theatre, anywhere in public. And DC in the ’90s was a more crime-ridden place to live. That doesn’t mean I didn’t act up, I just thought about my surrounding first. Kids today don’t.
All kids rebel and cuss and act out, but to what degree. Of course it’s due to socio-economic background, child’s personality, birth order, a hold host of reasons that contribute to how kids act.
This all about sums up my commute everyday. Try living in NYC. O you have no idea what it’s like. 101 bus that goes down 125th st btwn 2:30-5:00 pm IS THE WORST COMMUTE EVER. The Kids on that ish make you wanna get the tubes tied ASAP. Thank goodness my bro is in the motherland away from these fuckers. I so feel you on this one Chris. My list of things that I hate is growing with each minute.
one time I was on the Metro and some ladies badass kid was playing by the door. the door opened and she said-please note she was deep in conversation with her girl and had to stop, ” (insert name), get away from the door before somebody snatches you up and I’m eternally grateful!” Yes she screamed it. Three other people( including me) started laughing outloud. She just looked at us and started laughing too.
True that@ Esquire. Because as of now she does walk all over him and only him hahah. I sat him down and but it all in the open. Your daughter disrespects you and you know it. You need to fix that ASAP or it will get worse. I told him that you need to remember your the adult she is the child. You dont want her growing up being a stereo type of the common ghetto “fabulous” girl. She is very smart and I believe that if she spends more time with us she will truly see what a fmaily is because her mom is not showing her what that this let alone what respecting your elder’s is. Her mom is a whore but I’ll never tell her that of course. She is only 24 and already has 2 baby daddy and there might be a thrid soon. I dont want his daughter growing up to think that is ok. It’s sad..
Oh hell Mrs. Epps…. She cussed you out on myspace? This trick is immature. Ain’t even worth your breath to laugh at.
knaturalbeauty, what high school did you go to?
I know this next thought is a bit extreme and will never happen, but…
I think that the government should put birth control implant into everyone that is getting a welfare check from them.
not to throw the book at you, but this was a big government scandal. mostly involving minorities on welfare, their Medicaid offered to give them free birth control, implanting a device, Norplant, that would control birth for 5 years, but would not pay to take it out, leaving them to come up witht the hundreds of dollars to pay for removal. this was an epidemic among black women, who became so sick when implanted with the device, they would resort to cutting it out themselves. not only this, but there have been reports from poor black women of being sterilized and having abortions performed against their will.
MR. SMITH!!!!!!! IM dying over here@Oh! I got a story! I was at the Hoffman theater in alexandria catchin a movie with my mom. In the middle of the fuckin movie, this lil middle school cunt gets a call and starts yappin and laughing real loud ruining the movie for everyone around her. My mom, who is USUALLY a break your neck at the first sign or ignorance type of person, asks the girl to please hang up. This piece of shit slut bag gave my mom the nastiest and rudest look and kept talking.
Now, normally I’m a pretty laid back guy who avoids confrontation. But don’t you ever, ever, EVER disrespect my family. I snatched the phone out of that bitch’s hand so fast, turned it off and threw it over the hand rail. Don’t care where is went, don’t care if it broke. These kids just think they can mouth off with no consequences which goes back to my point a month ago. Ass whoopin’s are 100% necessary in the upbringing of a child.
I WOULD PAY MONEY TO SEE THAT!!! I have had a similar experience at the movies as well, this little girl was on her phone chatting it up two rows down from us and I was fed up. I stood up and said “Ay yo shawty with the phone” she turned around and i was like ” shut the fuckk upppppp” like Juicy J on the three six mafia albums hahahaha and then proceeded to throw popcorn at her head hahaha.
Admiral Furious
I swear… this here should be the justification to beat the hell out of someone else’s children. Then turn around and beat their parents.
URRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR BEAT YO KIDS!!! till they show some respect! we got too many kids raising kids, or kids raised by the streets… someone has got to beat some sense into them. Apparently parenting is just a hobby from the 50s.
“PARENTS WHO LOVE THIER CHILDREN WHUP THEIR ASS” - Esquire
I think I’m going to have this printed on a T-shirt…
“They will watch Tyler Perry movies and actually enjoy them.”
I’m DYING at this one. I’m glad someone else doesn’t find his movies funny.
Mrs Epps, You killin me.
“Ay yo shawty with the phone” she turned around and i was like ” shut the fuckk upppppp” like Juicy J on the three six mafia albums hahahaha and then proceeded to throw popcorn at her head”
LMBAO!!! Throwin popcorn is always funny if the person deserves it. Like the kids that try that yawn and reach his arm around the chick next to him technique… Only to have his hand slapped away. He’s a def. popcorn-head target.
It’s funny because I was riding the metro yesterday, and this woman got on the train with her two little girls (from PG Plaza of course). It was the worst EVER! These little girls were swinging around the poles like strippers and the mom kept telling them to “shut up and stop all that ghetto shit,” but kept laughing. Then the mom had the nerve to pull out some leopard print undies and was checking them out while these girls are having a booty shaking fest.
I want the Lord to take me right there and then.
Yea on MY FUCKIN SPACE!!!@ Mr Smith, if it was that serious she could have saved her fingers from called me instead of acting like a scared little/big bitch(she’s about 6′2 195 pounds) and we coulda settled it. Had the nerve to call me a slut when she’s the one with 2 baby daddies.. C’mon!!
*wanted
@ Sarah - Wilson, then Coolidge, then Eleanor Roosevelt in Greenbelt (moved a couple of times, obviously)
How come DC doesn’t enforce the curfew?
And what about parents who insist on taking small children to R-rated movies, especially after dark.
Im a physician in Florida and while i cant imagine forcing people on Wellfare to take birth control, I swear to God I want to start putting chains around people’s knees so they cant open their legs. You gotta have a license to carry a gun, to sell liquor out of your establishment etc . Well i think they need to require a license to have a kid( or at least some damn good parenting classes for 9 months).
And let me just say since I live in Florida( yes its my fault) there is only one thing worse than a badass kid in 90 degree heat. Its old people in 90 degree heat( the equivalent of a badass kid to the 10th power
Mr Smith-I love throwing popcorn at idiots in the movie.. and what pisses me off is that one loud black bitch that claps..why the fuck are you clapping! Where aren’t a damn concert! SHUT UP!!
@Mrs. Epps
Honey I am so feeling for you. I’m gonna share my experiences being a witness to baby momma and step child drama. I’m 27 with a child of my own and my mom got remarried when I was 13…. and she’s still dealing with my dad not getting his shit together and checking his worthless ass daughter!
Please, please, please, please, please before you marry this dude make him put his house in order. The worst thing a man with a child can do to his new partner/spouse and their relationship is to have baby momma drama and refuse to own up and handle his business. He needs to check baby moms, he needs to check daughter and he needs to embrace you as a partner in the discipline of his daughter. If he’s down on this idea, ya’ll got problems in your future.
My stepsister was 8 when my parents started dating. My mom wasn’t playin that “no whippin” stuff with her though. She beat our ass so she was gon beat step-sis ass. And to this day my dad resents my mom for doing what he was too scared/inept to do. And it isn’t just that i think only beatings will work for discipline, he wouldn’t do ANYTHING to let her know her behavior toward us and my mom was inappropriate.
Here’s a great story for you. Step-sis got kicked out of her school before she was to start the 8th grade and her mom sent her to live with us. Even though she was in our house, her mom is telling her to tell my mom that she doesn’t have to do what she says because she’s not her mom… in MY MOMMA’S HOUSE! And when she gets kicked out of school in OUR city, my mom steps up and home schools her through 8th grade even though she was always on some “I hate you and want to go home!” and her mom is dodging us like the repo-man when there’s talk about sending her back. And in the end instead of being grateful that she didn’t have to repeat a grade she decided she “hated my black gorilla looking ass momma” [that was a quote from step-sis herself]
And what does the little miss do now that she’s a legal adult? Not a DAMN thing! she’s absolutely socially retarded, she doesn’t know how to take care of herself, she expects some man to take care of her and pay her bills, she lives at home with her mom and has no plans on changing this situation because it allows for maximum manipulation and corruption of my dad and a free ride from her worthless ass momma!
I know this is a long post, but I know that being in love with a man will allow for you to overlook lots of stuff, but it’s imperative that you mitigate this future bullshit NOW or look forward to lots of counseling/arguing in your future.
@stuffblackpeoplehate
thank you so much for this blog. I was missing smart ass, pointed, clever humor in my life and this definitely delivers. I love you! (just don’t tell my husband)
@Mr. Smith
I can’t lie, i’ve thought of the same thing. I think that all young girls in america should be implanted with a device that locks their reproductive system up and until they have a full psychological battery and are deemed ok they can’t get unlocked. Put a lock on that shit until we know she ain’t crazy!
knatrualbeauty-And what about parents who insist on taking small children to R-rated movies, especially after dark.
I never understood that either.. What happened to getting a damn babysitter. But instead they take their kids to movies were they see violence and sex and then the parents want to know why they are in gangs or having babies by age eleven! Yes I said eleven I know ya’ll seen Maury!
Word, Sarah. The government would undoubtebly use this unfairly and on some “end the Black race” shit. It would be like the Tusgeegee Experiment all over again. We just need to get agressive about encouraging our people to choose safe birthcontrol methods that are trusted, such as Ortho and what are those free things I see all over NYC? Oh yeah, condoms.
Oh lord… If I ever heard any child anywhere say “hated my black gorilla looking ass momma”… This particular spawn of uselessness would be beaten unconscious. No in between. No time outs, reprimands, consideration of if I was in public or not. It would be a Tyson ‘85 knock out.
*dead* at “pro-choice justifications.”
Also, don’t forget that they always want to sit sideways, with their backs to the windows, feet hanging off the end, then, when someone needs to sit down, (not me, because I always stand) heave an exasperated sigh and move their legs a few inches in to let the person squeeze in…
I know sometimes fathers are reluctant to tap their daughters ass cause people see girls as all flowery and delicate and they start with the water works and when they do it to little boys it’s like ‘i’m teaching him how to be a man or, he’s a boy he can take it’. Don’t let these little girls fool you.. you gotta be on their asses just as much if not more cause they’re slick..
I don’t like spanking my son, but i will if need be, and I dont care where we are. I don’t do that ‘wait til we get home mess’ cause then the message is not as effective. I’m beating you all after the fact. When you cut up it gets dealt with right there. My coworkers husband got the cops called on him in the grocery store one time. She asked her mom for a something, my co worker said ‘no, unless you’re paying for it’ and the daughter said ‘you’re such a pain in the ass’ and her husband heard it, walked up and kicked her in the behind. Someone saw it and she called the cops on them.
If they don’t have anything to fear/respect then they know there are no consequences.. where does discipline come in? I tried that time out mess and my son responded to that for a while, but then sometimes he gets extra so i gotta tap that ass. It worked for so long, generation after generation, why stop now??
@Mr. Smith
“Oh lord… If I ever heard any child anywhere say “hated my black gorilla looking ass momma”… This particular spawn of uselessness would be beaten unconscious. No in between. No time outs, reprimands, consideration of if I was in public or not. It would be a Tyson ‘85 knock out.”
Son, the only thing that kept that child alive was that my twin brother and I had just graduated from high school and was on our way to higher education and a new life….
I didn’t need to catch a case!
Scarletjones- Thank you for understanding my situation. And that story is exactly what I fear for us. That why when we have her on the weekends I always remind him that he has to lay down the law with her because her mom is a big influence inher life right now since she spends most of her time with her. But yes the part about you step-sister living with you. Yea that subject came up with us as well. Her mom called him crying saying that she needs him to take her for a few months. Whne he told me this I thought something was wrong at their house and I was over her trying to make up a plan for her to go to school and all that stuff. But then when he got him he told me that she has done that before calle dup saying that she wouldnt stop crying and she wanted him to take her. I was so confused. I was like ummm so she calls lile that out the blue saying shit like that when nothing is really wrong. Then I finally understood when she never called back after that 1st phone call. So I told him well shit why don’t we just take her anyways you need to spend more time with her anyways. This is when I got pissed off. He started coming up all these excuses and stuff saying that he would have to get up early and yada yada and go through DC to take her to school(we live in Upper Marlboro) Rolleyes. So it got me think dude why are you backing away from your responsibilities!! She’s your daughter you blood. So I’m think ok WTF what’s gonna happend when we have kids are gonna act the same why or wait you gonna leave it up to me when it comes to our kids?!! Then he explained that it wasnt like that and blah blah blah…Sometimes I think he just doesn’t want to deal with her or her mom..which makes me think about our future together..
“and her mom is dodging us like the repo-man when there’s talk about sending her back.”
sad, but this is usually what happens. The child gets out of control and then the custodial parent loses thier mind and sends them with (in most cases) thier father. All the while being jealous because they are “playing mommy” Listen up. You arent PLAYING MOMMY you are MOMMY. teach your step children that they are lucky to have so many people who love them and that they can call you mommy Dee or whatever you decide. But like every parent/child relationship, expect the ups and downs.
@ MrsEpps: Im sure you know, you gain everything once you marry your fiance. And you cant stop her grandparents from doing things you dont agree with concerning her. (grandmas love) BUT CONTROL YOUR HOUSE. Or Chris will be posting about YOUR children.
Children do bad things. but TEACH them. There is a diff b/n bad childish things and PURE EVIL and DISRESPECT. If her mama is trifling, you hold on and love that little girl harder. Give her a good role model. All of this madness is the parents fault.
CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE:
If you love a child, they will grow up thinking they are worth something.
If you whup a child, they will know right from wrong.
lil chaps will stray, but they will come bak to thier core teachings. And I usually say something to them if they are being truly outrageous. not in a bad fussing way, because thats all some of them get. But in a “why you doin that? do you know you worth more than that?” Believe me, they may show out in front of thier friends, but that shit marinates on a childs soul. You may have changed a life not even knowin it. I think its our duty to try to balance the universe and teach the good and show some love to outweigh some of the evil and hate some of these kids grow up around.
i hate to admit that i am one of those people who have the ipod blaring on the train/trolley in the morning. but this is done ONLY to combat the noise from the random children/teenagers/old drunk people/heroin addicts/general cretans that ride public transportation.
i have heard 3-5 yr olds swear
teenagers describe sexual acts (in explicit, graphic terms) seriously, who wants to hear a 15 yr old describe the had she got the night before at 7:30 in the morning?
and i dont know if it got national attention but for some reason there are groups of black teens beating up white people on the trains. pretty soon, they’re gonna have lynch mobs at every stop.
hahahha I need to strat proof reading my shit bwhahahah but ya’ll get what I’m saying hahah
I don’t know if anyone else has actually seen Idiocracy which was supposed to be a comedy but I would rather classify it as a horror movie, it was so scary to me because this could really be our future. When these affronts are directed at you or in your vicinity you tend to get angry but it really is just sad, these children have no hope but not only that they rob my children (whenever/ifever I have any) of hope, the future is truely bleak.
And Seven get at me when you make those shirts I got a few people who would rock them proudly….
Esquire@ I agree completely… Its hard because it’s like I’m the only one trying to teach her right from wrong. Like her dad does tell her when she is wrong but its not effective enough you know. And it’s hard on me because I feel liek the bad guy, like he’s making me out to be the bad guy because he allows her to walk over him. I told him if he continues to do that our realtionhsip won’t work especially since we have been talking about having kids of our own. I told him I need a partner that will be sensitive but firm with our children liek I will be. But what also plays in is how we were raised. We were raised completly diff. My mom grew up in a military family so things were stricted and firm so that how my Mom raised me. I’m not saying I will be exactly like my mom when it comes to children but I will still have someone my mothers way when on the other hand he was raised y his grandmother and it was more lax.
This topic is making more and more and more angry as the day progresses.
@brran1
Yes I do remember that mess and though I want to defend those school children, I am MORE than certain they were the ones that were acting a god damn fool when the white people decided to stand up and tell them to pipe down. Unfortunately for the white people… they underestimated how many children they could take on at one time… so my pity for them descends almost exponentially. Regardless I would have been close to doing the same thing myself… wanting to (as Bernie Mac so eloquently put it) Fuck Yo Kid UP.
@ MR SMITH
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CHUCKED THAT GIRLS PHONE SOMEWHERE. HOW GREAT!
This actually reminds me of when I was in a movie theater with my girlfriend while we were living in San Diego. We had sat in the second row from the back… right in front of a group of white/hispanic girls who looked to have been no older than 14 or so. After the movie started, the children happily had a lunch time gossip session while the movie progressed, which sparked my GF to get pissed and decide to descend down a few rows, away from the noise. Of course seeing my girlfriend get angry basically gave me a double dose of furious… and I bid them farewell with the wonderful phrase “you young ladies really need to shut up!” Most of the theater heard me say so and some thanked me with a bit of an applause as my GF and I made our way downward. Unfortunately, the escapade wasn’t over. The ring leader of the pack of little banshees decided to grow a pair of non-existent balls and come down to the row that we had set down in.
She then said to me… “You do not tell me to shut up! You do not tell us to shut up. We are just kids and we are here to have a great time. SO YOU shut up!”
I think it took every muscle within me to restrain my desire to grab that little asshole by the neck, pull off my belt and wail on her until the white meat. Instead, I decided that I was going to get really smart and be that tattle tail asshole that these kids hate so much today. When the movie let out… I was more than happy to rush out ahead of everyone else and find the first manager I saw. Ironically enough, there was one other black couple in the theater who knew exactly what I was about to do… and when they saw me talking to the short ASian manager, I heard the woman proclaim, “You get em boy. That mess in there didn’t make no sense!”
I calmly asked the dude who looked to be no older than 25, “What is your policy on minors viewing rated R movies?”
Manager- “What do you mean?”
Me (getting angrier)- “Let me repeat it…” Meanwhile children are filing out of the theater- “What is your policy on minors viewing a rated R film without proper guidance?!?!?! Because I don’t appreciate little brats talking over the movie I paid 20 bucks for who then turn around and back talk me when I tell them to be quiet!”
The Manager (looking most terrified)- “Oh…. uh… they aren’t supposed to be in the movie theater” as he watches these children file out behind me.
Me- “You know you people can be fined for allowing minors under the age of 18 to come into rated R films. I should call the RIAA (yes I know thats the wrong organization… but fuck it I was on a roll) on you people”
Long story short… he gave me a pair of free movie tickets. But thats not the point. These kids these days… regardless of where they are… are truly doomed. Which raises the question… where is our country going to be within the next 50 years?
They should start issuing citations.. when i used to take the train to school in The Bronx there were monitors/train officers that would make sure everything was copestetic on the way to and from.. they don’t do that any more?
I mean, i think if you could issue citations for disorderly conduct it may slow it down/stop it because most of the time parents have no idea that their kids are acting like that. Little angels to their faces BeBe’s kids when they’re out and about.
Since it takes a village.. but no one in the village really cares any more, word doesnt get back to the parents as it should. If you come home with a citation i bet ish would change
@Mrs. Epps
It’s unfortunate that he has that attitude. As i’ve gotten older and really talked to my dad and marinated on what I saw fall out in their relationship, I believe that alot of the passive attitude my dad has is a direct result of his feelings of guilt and failure for his first marriage not working out and his daughter not being better. I think that he wishes that she would be able to rise above all the bullshit her mom raised her in, and that he’d taken advantage of all of the missed opportunities to be an affective disciplinarian and set boundaries for her. Even when my parents started dating, my dad relied alot on my mom to just envelope my step-sis into our daily routine like it always was. being a surrogate mom, but he wanted my mom to do it so he wouldn’t feel any more guilty for how unhappy his child was and his inactive role in that unhappiness. Everybody has their personal issues that they have to deal with, but once you put on the parent hat you have to crawl over all of your bullshit and get it together for your kids. I hope that whatever is keeping your fiance from stepping into that role, he gets over.
There are tears in my eyes right now.
Speaking of terrible fucking names, someone told me she knows a little girl named “obesity,” spelled “ABCD.”
Jesus wept. Twice.
Everyone knows of an “Abcd”. I heard of one pronounced “Ah-bah-see-dee”. I am hoping this shit is an urban legend.
Speaking of terrible fucking names, someone told me she knows a little girl named “obesity,” spelled “ABCD.”
OH MY GOD! I have never heard of that! lol ..cant breathe
that he’d taken advantage of all of the missed opportunities to be an affective disciplinarian and set boundaries for her.
ScarletJones gosh darn it thank you for saying that! Because this is what I say to him that he will be saying in the next 10 yrs. SMH and I hope he changes that shit too because I’ll tell you this if he doesnt buck up about it he may not have a wife and may have to find a woman who is passive and could careless what his daughter does to him.
That reminds me…. more irresponsibility…
In this story… I am going to blame the parent 100% for the outcome. I was at my house finishing up some improvements when my dad called and told me to run to DC with him. I obliged and upon walking out the front door I noted across the street that a toddler, who looked to be no older than 2 or 3, was playing on the concrete porch of the house across the street and to the right a bit. (BTW… I live in a townhouse community). Now, mind you, the houses across the street from mine are elevated such that the front door is one story up, so one must ascend a flight of concrete steps before they can attempt entry into the home. The only thing preventing a fall for an adult was a system of rought (spelling) Iron railings on either side of the stairs and the landing/porch. The child btw… was playing with the iron bars, possibly mocking jail. (who knows who cares)
I thought nothing of the toddler playing up on the porch, other than it seemed kind of dangerous since his mother wasn’t around.
WELP… I turned around to lock my door when suddenly I heard a muffled THUMP followed by excessive crying. Sure enough, the child had managed to slide himself through the railing and fall off the side of the porch. Luckily, he landed in the flower bed and NOT ON THE BRICK BORDER. I turned and froze, while my next door neighbor began sprinting over toward the child while the mother came rushing out of the house gasping “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!”
Here is my problem… why the hell didn’t she pay attention to the fact that her child was
a) outside on the porch
b) not in the house where she was
I don’t mean to sound unsympathetic… and I do feel bad that the child fell. But my point is… this is an example of a parent who just doesn’t pay enough attention. All too often this same mother has her friends over and while her children run a muck (not the same mother as directly across the street) and doesn’t pay a lick of attention to what her kids are doing. These people need to give up most if not all of their childhood personal lives and live up to being a mother fucking parent!