Toddler training

Why do people let their kids under the age of 5 run around unattended, unwatched, and seemingly unwanted??

Yesterday I was followed for almost my whole shopping experience by some little boy about four years old that was wearing a little pack that made it look like a monkey was hanging onto his back while trying to strangle him. I wanted to help the monkey.

I never did see the kid with his parents. Perhaps he was lost and thought I would help him. Perhaps his parents dropped him off to let the public baby sit him. Perhaps his parents dropped him off in the hopes that someone would take him home thinking he was a pork roast.

You are probably thinking that I don’t like kids. I like kids. I just don’t like kids that are running wild. I think that the dog standard should be used in all public places; “You must keep your child on a leash at all times and subject to good behavior.”

I think that all kids should be have to pass a simple test before they are allowed more than two feet away from their parents in public. In this test they would have to obey simple commands like stay, heel, come, shut up, and respond properly to “No”. If the child fails this test three times in a row, their parents have to enroll in child obedience training classes.

If that doesn’t help, then the parents have to spend two nights in jail while their child attends a sort of kiddy boot camp. Intensive Toddler Training Camps would sprout up all over the country.

It would create a new industry and keep lots of psychologists in steady paychecks designing ITTC programs. The benefits would be tremendous now and in the future.

And help keep people like me from wanting to kill the loveable little tykes.