Um, yeah THAT's good parenting - NOT

Dear lady (I use the term loosely) who sat behind us on Father's Day at the family restaurant-

Thanks for making my husband's Father's Day breakfast SO enjoyable by:

A) leaving your 4-5 year-old son in charge of your 1-2 year-old son while you waddled your 400# ass up to the breakfast buffet. No, really, it was so peaceful & serene eating our breakfast to the soothing sounds of the younger one having a coniption fit and the older one yelling at him "Sit down, you're going to be in trouble, be quiet!!!" over & over at pretty much the top of his lungs. This does NOT qualify as parental supervision FYI. Plus the irony was not lost on me that a FATHER was nowhere in sight on FATHER's Day. Maybe his gift was not having to bear witness to your poor parenting skills. But I'm just going to go out on a limb and guess the baby daddy (daddies) isn't (aren't) in the picture.

B) for the younger one being shirtless DURING the meal, but then you lovingly took the time to put it back on him when you LEFT. Are you dyslexic? But I will give you points for none of you being in your pajamas. THAT was refreshing (and a whole other blog post!).

C) for handling the younger one's tantrum not by shushing him quietly or *gasp* gtting off your fat ass and maybe taking him outside or to the bathroom (you obviously didn't have a problem leaving them alone earlier, so the older one would be ok for a few minutes) but by fussing at him and telling him "people are trying to eat, they don't want to hear you crying". Honey, that ship left the harbor already. At least they didn' throw any food.

While I have a certain amount of sympathy for a single mom, and the best of parents can have a bad day, common sense should be utilized at least when in a public setting. I can't help but wonder how many millions of dollars her lawsuit would have been for if the little one had been injured while she was away from the table. I am thinking probably quite a few. A couple times I almost turned around to try & comfort the younger one, but then I imagined her stomping back to the table to tell me to mind my own business. There was an older couple sitting across from them and the woman did try to talk to the younger one, but he was inconsolable.

Yes, I am sure you wanted to enjoy your fifteenth plate from the buffet, but when you are a parent there are times when you might have to forgo your own needs & wants to tend to your kids. I am not portraying myself as a perfect parent, far from it, but when my kids acted up in public, I would remove them from the situation in order not to subject everyone to their brattiness.