Van De Kamp – Bossy, Disrespectful Children are Not Cute

This Van De Kamp commercial that features a little girl who berates her mother for giving her minced fish is not cute and it is not funny.  That little brat should be glad that her mother feeds her.  Little blondie-locks does not have a job and contributes nothing toward the grocery bill.  If she doesn’t want minced fish, she doesn’t have to eat.  Guess what?  If she get hungry enough she’ll eat whatever her mom puts on the table.

There’s a line in the Goldie Hawn movie, Deceived where Goldie Hawn is trying to retrieve a very valuable necklace that her child mistakenly gave a friend.  The mother of the friend doesn’t want to upset her child by asking her to give the necklace back.  After much banter back and forth, Goldie Hawn takes the necklace from the child and says, “Who’s the parent here?” That’s what I want to know – Who’s the parent here?  Will the real parents please stand up?

No child has the right to speak to their parent that way and no parent should tolerate it.  It’s not funny and I wish advertisers would choose another route to market products.  Children don’t have to be rude to be funny.

I am sick and tired of rude, disrespectful children.  About a month ago I was trying to find a funny video with children to feature on my blog.  Most of what I found were smart-mouth, cussing kids whose parents thought it was funny.  I wonder how funny it’s going to be when little smarty mouth gets put out of school for being disrespectful to the teacher or cussing at the principle?

Conceiving and giving birth does not make a parent.  Parents have a responsibility to nurture and teach their children.  Let’s go back to the old days and teach our children some manners.