Unattended children

[The Borgified Corpse]

He's not really disruptive. He's just sorta starved for attention. The real hard thing to deal with is that he's a nice kid but this just isn't the situation for him. I've seen this kind of thing before-- single parents who drag their kids along with them to their own adult activities. I understand that childcare can be expensive but I think that it's ultimately detrimental to the child's social development if he's spending all his time around adults and not other kids at his same intellectual level. All he ends up doing is annoying the adults with his constant demands for attention.

 

[John Picard]

Trekker, you need to have a child of your own. I think you need some perspective on the reality of caring, juggling, and educating one's own child before you continue to karp about how others are doing at it.

I agree with Trekker. I'm sick and tired of the "poor single mother" card being thrown down all the time. She should have thought before hopping into bed for some boinky-boinky. "Poor single mother" is synonymous with "irresponsible adult".

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Well, if the kid really is 6 years old, shouldn't he be in school?

The OP did say

On days when he doesn't have school, he's there in the mall for all 11 hours that it's open.

Yeah, I don't really read those "post" things you guys write out.

 

[Trekker4747]

Trekker, you need to have a child of your own. I think you need some perspective on the reality of caring, juggling, and educating one's own child before you continue to karp about how others are doing at it.

My inexperience with raising a child has what, exactly, to do with a woman leaving her six year old child alone to his own decvices in a shopping mall?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Trekker, you need to have a child of your own. I think you need some perspective on the reality of caring, juggling, and educating one's own child before you continue to karp about how others are doing at it.

I agree with Trekker. I'm sick and tired of the "poor single mother" card being thrown down all the time. She should have thought before hopping into bed for some boinky-boinky. "Poor single mother" is synonymous with "irresponsible adult".

Hey, boinky-boinky is fun.

Meanjoe, needs to get boinked

 

[Miss Chicken]

Trekker, you need to have a child of your own. I think you need some perspective on the reality of caring, juggling, and educating one's own child before you continue to karp about how others are doing at it.

I agree with Trekker. I'm sick and tired of the "poor single mother" card being thrown down all the time. She should have thought before hopping into bed for some boinky-boinky. "Poor single mother" is synonymous with "irresponsible adult".

Most single parents I know are single parents because of divorce. I also know/have known some who are single parents because of the death of their spouse.

People can be so judgemental of single parents if they work but are equally judgemental if they don't work. Every time I had childcare something eventually went wrong, especially as I had two childrten with disabilities, and each time I ended up having to give up work/study. When I did people criticised me for doing so.

 

[John Picard]

Trekker, you need to have a child of your own. I think you need some perspective on the reality of caring, juggling, and educating one's own child before you continue to karp about how others are doing at it.

I agree with Trekker. I'm sick and tired of the "poor single mother" card being thrown down all the time. She should have thought before hopping into bed for some boinky-boinky. "Poor single mother" is synonymous with "irresponsible adult".

Most single parents I know are single parents bcause of divorce. I also know/have known some who are single parents because of the death of their spouse.

That's fine. I've been a single parent as well and I stand by what I said. Stop throwing down the "poor single mother" card. It's old and nothing but a crutch to hide irresponsible behavior.

 

[Miss Chicken]

If this mother gives up work because she can't get childcare won't people criticise her for being lazy or for living on welfare?

 

[Trekker4747]

If this mother gives up work because she can't get childcare won't people criticise her for being lazy or for living on welfare?

You're right. Letting a six year old run around a shopping mall is a better idea.

 

[John Picard]

If this mother gives up work because she can't get childcare won't people criticise her for being lazy or for living on welfare?

"Can't get childcare". BS.

 

[Miss Chicken]

If this mother gives up work because she can't get childcare won't people criticise her for being lazy or for living on welfare?

You're right. Letting a six year old run around a shopping mall is a better idea.

Read my first post. I do not approve of her letting her child run around the mall.

Can't get childcare". BS.

I know there are not enough childcare places in Australia. I entered "USA child care shortage" into Google and came up with plenty of hits.

 

[John Picard]

If this mother gives up work because she can't get childcare won't people criticise her for being lazy or for living on welfare?

You're right. Letting a six year old run around a shopping mall is a better idea.

Read my first post. I do not approve of her letting her child run around the mall.

Can't get childcare". BS.

I know there are not enough childcare places in Australia.I entered "US child care shortage" into Google and came up with plenty of hits.

Oh, silly me. If it's on the Internet then it *must* be true.

Hillary Clinton tried that scare tactic in the 90's and it failed.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

It's not so much a problem of "finding" childcare. It's affording it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Many of the sites that Google brought up looked like authorative sites to me. I know how to tell an authorative site from one that not.

I also have had experiences in trying to find childcare (and failing) and I know other parents who have not been able to find childcare as well.

It's not so much a problem of "finding" childcare. It's affording it.

That too. Also finding childcare that is legal and acredited.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

If this mother gives up work because she can't get childcare won't people criticise her for being lazy or for living on welfare?

You're right. Letting a six year old run around a shopping mall is a better idea.

No one said that. They're just saying that finding reliable and affordable childcare is not always as simple as you make out. While they don't approve of how the mother handled things, they are also capable of having some empathy for her situation.