Watching my brat of a little sister who has a friend over...terrible idea in the first place. She won't listen to me, no surprise there...much less has to show off to her friend. And this ladies and gentlemen is why I will not have any of those little swine running around when I get older...

How old is she?

12...can't wait to move out of this house, leave this load of crap with them to deal with on their own.

I was at my local park testing out a remote controlled doohickey for a show I was on a while ago, and I had to witness the ear-piercing screams and howls of what had to be the most annoying unruly feral toddler known to mankind. All the little rugrat would do was scream it's bloody head off and in the most unintelligible manner, too.

What was worse was that the parents were nowhere to be found- they had let junior roam around the park unattended while they hit the ice cream truck.

So I pretty much instituted a "no rugrats" policy from then on.

There WAS one shining light to the encounter, though- I managed to get what would be the screen name I use in some sites ("moofooga") from the little bastard.

yup, cant say i favor those crazed balls of energy either

Oh...my sweet! I soo don't like this post!

(((Fear))) so what.. believe me the joy of children makes those minor things, NOTHINGS.....

Kids can be a pain in the azz, but they are God's gifts to us, nothing but nothing compares to the love for your child...

I knew by the time I was 19 or 20 -- I dated several older, divorced women who had kids -- got a real good look at what that whole parental thing was all about -- and decided I just had no aptitude for, nor interest in, that kind of life....

Can't please everyone.

Ahhh...she's testing her limits with you. That's her job, you know.

Umm...you're blaming the child. I see that the parents are doing wrong.

geeze when i was your age(24) i already had my 2 kids.

and of course kids dont listen they want to pull your button where you have to fight at no end..

my daughter at your sister age(12) was already rebeling. when she was 13 she snuck out of the house through the window and took off to see her bf who she was forbidden to see for he had just turn 18. well guess what she got pg and had her son 2 months before she turned 15, had her 2nd(daughter) at 17 had her the day before she granduated and she graduated 1yr early.

i gave my granddaughter a ring that i found in my house and i gave it to her, and i told my daughter that your daughter is now engaged and she looked at me and said i dont think so.. you should had seen her eyes when i said that...

I think I'm pretty fair, I mean it is 1 in the morning here...ah well, I'll test her limits one of these days when I wake her up at 5 in the morning on Sunday.

sad but true

She's awake now?!

She has a big red rescue button (tentively called "mom") that she presses when things don't go her way...pretty much, this all will blow up in their face when she grows up...or even in a year.

Her mom says no later than 3 in the morning, I remember going to bed somewhere around 11 when I was 12-13...

I think that everyone needs to remember that they, once as well were that uncontrollable brat! We are all lucky that someone out there loved us unconditionally regardless of our outbursts. lol Children are not for everyone however. I guess not only do you have to be careful with whom you choose to spend your life, but also those in which you spend your time. My daughter and I come as a complete package, some understand that and some do not. The man that I choose to be with and love unconditionally will not only love me wholeheartedly, but also my child who is completely a part of me.

Didn't say I don't love her...said she was a brat.

You know, a lot of people around here have this terrible issue of putting words where they don't exist...

what the heck is she doing up so late. geeze. sounds like there is no disapline for her..... i had a bed time schedule 8pm when i was her age... my grandson is a year younger than your sister and he goes to bed beyween 8-9pm. he knows better, he even knows not to talk back to his mom

well said buffry