I recently went shopping at my favorite grocer and while there I witnessed something that shocked and appalled me. There I was in the produce section picking out some veggies for dinner when I heard a boy yelling at his mother on top of his lungs. He looked to be about 10 or 11 years old. The words that came out of his mouth made my jaw drop. He called his mother a B**** for not wanting to buy him a new video game and he kept using the F words like it was perfectly normal for him to talk to his mom that way.

All the other shoppers in the surrounding area, me included, were looking to see what the mother was going to do about her son's behavior. She did not take him aside or walked out of the store with him, she simply allowed him to place the video game into the cart and moved on as if nothing happened. I continued on with my shopping  when I ended up in the same aisle as them and once again the kid was cursing up a storm. This time it was over batteries which he wanted for his game system. I waited for her to tell him to stop talking to her that way and to stop using that kind of language but once again, nothing.

It was as if he was the one in charge and calling all the shots. I, for instance would have left the groceries and dragged the brat out of the store. I can't believe she let him behave that way in public. Seems as she has lost all control of her child and if that's the case she needs to do something about it soon before he becomes a teenager. 

What is wrong with parents nowadays? People keep having kid after kid but no one wants the responsibility of raising them to become responsible and respectful members of society. I have seen other examples of badly behaved children in the past but this by far took the cake.