Kids will be kids, and I know this…hey I was a kid once…it was fun.

I don’t have any kids myself (that I know of), and to be honest, sometimes, they make me nervous….Ive had some pretty bad situations in the past dealing with other people’s kids.

But what do you do?

When someone else’s child is acting up?

About 2 years ago, a girl I was dating came over to my house for a friendly visit, she brought her 3 year old son. I had been around him before, but this was the first time she had brought him to my house. Well the 3 year old got a little bored, which would be expected being that there really isn’t anything at my house for him to do. She suggested that I look to see if "Scooby-Doo" was on one of the cartoon networks, cause he loves that cartoon. luckily it was on, so I turned to the station and he was instantly mesmerized. The odd thing was that he stood about a foot away from the television watching it.

The television I have is a 55" projection HDTV, at the time I hadn’t had it too long, maybe a year, so it was still practically new to me. To be honest, that TV was my "baby", my pride and joy. After about 10-15 minutes, the 3 year old started repeating what Shaggy and Scooby-Doo was saying, he was really getting into it. I thought it was cute. So I went on with my conversation with his mother about whatever it was we were talking about. All of a sudden I hear

"BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!!!!!",

I’m like what the-….. Then I hear it again…."BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!!!", I look over and the 3 year old is standing in front of the TV slamming his fist on the screen as hard as he can. I look over at his mother, thinking "will you tell him to stop" She didn’t even look up to see what the noise was. I then look back at him and he is just laughing and having a good ole time.

Then he does it again…"BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!!!", I look at her again, she doesn’t budge. Then I tell him nicely

"stop doing that, the screen may break, why don’t you have a seat on the couch".

He laughs and looks at the couch, his mother then asks me whats wrong. I was like "nothing, he was just banging on the TV, I was telling him to stop" she said oh and went on with the conversation. Needless to say he never made it to the couch and went back to banging on the screen "BAM BAM BAM BAM!!!" I then look at the mother again, and again she doesn’t budge. Finally I asked her "could you please make him stop banging on my TV" and she responded
"doesn’t that TV have a screen protector?"
????

She did finally make him stop, but not before I was a nervous wreck.