We've all seen and heard parents whose only attempts to control their children's behavior consist of

[Atticus]

threats.

"If you don't stay in your chair and stop bothering people at other tables, you're going to be sorry!"

"Stop drawing on our walls or I will take all your crayons away!"

But,---there are never any actual consequences---punishments---for the misbehavior. The kids are free to do as they please.

The above is simply an example of what I thought was common knowledge: don't make threats/issue ultimatums/announce MANDATES unless you are able and willing to back them up or enforce them.

In my community, the very term "mandate" has lost all meaning. Signs at store entrances advising shoppers that masks are "required" are viewed as "liberal nonsense" and, of course, ignored. THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE for entering without a mask.

If you are foolish enough to complain to management---as I have done---you are met with a shrug and the lie "We have no legal authority to enforce the state mandate". When I asked how they can enforce "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" but not "Masks Required", they shrug again and walk away with a "Thank you for your concern".

The "spoiled kids" without masks are running wild. I wish those with the authority to control them but won't would just shut up. Their spinelessness is embarrassing.

[PJMcK]

1. Right on

Threats without consequences are meaningless and kids figure that out very quickly.

For about 5 years, I played piano at a ballet school. Half my classes were adult and the other half kids from 3 to 6 years of age. It was fascinating to see how ineffectual the parents often were at controlling their kids' behaviors. Pathetic, actually.

[3Hotdogs]

2. My step daughter, "David, if you don't stop doing that,

I'm going to tell you to stop doing it, again."

[Beachnutt]

3. Same goes fot tfg If

you don't stop enciting violence, or if you don't answer our subpoena you'll go to jail.....
He laughs and flips em off.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. The consequences are illness and death

But these people can't see past themselves, so unless they themselves get sick they don't care.

And let's face it, Omicron burned its way through the country now, cases are plummeting and Covid will be an after thought in a few weeks, until the next variant enables another wave.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. The needs of the many have been replaced by the needs of the few which

has been replaced by the needs of “me.”

My FIL who was one of the first on Omaha Beach would not recognize America today.

[MOMFUDSKI]

6. When I was pregnant with my first

a neighbor had little 2-yr old Johnny. We were invited for coffee at another neighbor's house. Johnny's mom told me she wouldn't be going because that neighbor had all kinds of decor on her coffee table and around her house and Johnny would break most of it. It was that very day that I vowed to myself that I would never have to decline a social event due to my kids' bad behavior. So I started them out from day one on how to behave in public AND at home. I would get phone calls from other moms telling me how well-behaved my kids were at their homes. You just gotta do it right. I see so much coddling from these young moms at stores, etc. They have made their lives hell. WTF?