Hi, I’m AJ. I am a writer and photographer dad working from home in northern California. My wife is a university nursing instructor and a labor and delivery nurse. We share parenting duties.
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* AJ - The writer of this blog. * Mom or “The Wife” - She who bore my children and puts up with my peccadilloes. * Little Miss or Big Sister - My 4-year-old daughter (born in 2004). * Little Brother - our son who arrived March 2008.
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When i worked at a farmers market i had children steal from me every week.
Their parents would allow their children to run wild and just come up and grab our food displays. The good parents would show their child responsibility and consequences by immediately making their child pay for the item or watch them pay for the food item as a parental figure.
The bad parents would blame me, for what??? i never could figure out.
If i had grabbed their child's hand i would have been arrested, so i never did that. I tried to put the baked goods out of range of children but i had to make them accessible to adults and that height line is not black and white, plus i also have make sure people in wheelchairs can reach things too. I have had parents tell me "People in wheelchairs don't have money." (Our federal Congressman is in a wheelchair and a cherished customer i would reply to their red faces.)
Even when i politely as i could tried to express to parents that even if their child returned the baked good I had to throw it out, i had a mother call me a piece of shit in front of her child. This is the same mother that insisted everything be organic.
HER CHILD MUST HAVE ORGANIC but someone else's child can eat the dirty scone that her kid touched with his snot covered hands and sneezed on????
Was i to blame because i sold baked goods? That i was even at a public market? When i was told i should have signs telling other people's children how to behave in public, i put up "Don't touch" signs and I quickly figured out how few of the grabby children could actually read even at age 11. And yes these were white RICH kids and yes they did say their child was "Gifted" or an "Honor student"
WHAT are your children doing up at 12:22am?
You are full of it. You are speaking through your children using them as human shields for your own blarney.
Using your children as pawns is shameful
Shame on you.
bout me
Hi, I’m AJ. I am a writer and photographer dad working from home in northern California. My wife is a university nursing instructor and a labor and delivery nurse. We share parenting duties.
Cast of Characters
* AJ - The writer of this blog.
* Mom or “The Wife” - She who bore my children and puts up with my peccadilloes.
* Little Miss or Big Sister - My 4-year-old daughter (born in 2004).
* Little Brother - our son who arrived March 2008.
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Thingamababy carries original reviews of baby and toddler products my family has bought and used, previews of other products I find, tips, and observations. I am not compensated for products I review.
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Why when i click on your name does it connect to THINGAMABAY!!?!?!?
Don't You make you living from children?
C'mon. Stop fronting.
Maybe Tom Waits after a face lift? or a gay Fred Durst?
The woman i have no clue on.
Their parents would allow their children to run wild and just come up and grab our food displays. The good parents would show their child responsibility and consequences by immediately making their child pay for the item or watch them pay for the food item as a parental figure.
The bad parents would blame me, for what??? i never could figure out.
If i had grabbed their child's hand i would have been arrested, so i never did that. I tried to put the baked goods out of range of children but i had to make them accessible to adults and that height line is not black and white, plus i also have make sure people in wheelchairs can reach things too. I have had parents tell me "People in wheelchairs don't have money."
(Our federal Congressman is in a wheelchair and a cherished customer i would reply to their red faces.)
Even when i politely as i could tried to express to parents that even if their child returned the baked good I had to throw it out, i had a mother call me a piece of shit in front of her child. This is the same mother that insisted everything be organic.
HER CHILD MUST HAVE ORGANIC but someone else's child can eat the dirty scone that her kid touched with his snot covered hands and sneezed on????
Was i to blame because i sold baked goods? That i was even at a public market? When i was told i should have signs telling other people's children how to behave in public, i put up "Don't touch" signs and I quickly figured out how few of the grabby children could actually read even at age 11. And yes these were white RICH kids and yes they did say their child was "Gifted" or an "Honor student"
That is what we are up against.