Things Parents Say

Some of the things I've heard parents tell children shock me. Today I was leaving my building when I opened the door and found a small family entering the building. As I held the door the child toddled in with the mother pushing the stroller behind her. The mother turned to the child and said "look honey a magic door that opened automatically". Apparently, I'm a 180 pound door stopper. I'm totally confused when  I hear a parent tell their misbehaving child to stop because the sales clerk or police officer will yell at them. Isn't it the parents job to correct a child's inappropriate behavior? Although we have outsourced so many jobs maybe I missed the memo that listed parenting also. Didn't we use to tell children if they are lost to go to a sales clerk or police officer? Another perplexing saying is "don't give that to Junior he doesn't eat blah blah blah". It's not like I'm trying to feed the kid foie gras, heck Junior I'm with you on that one all the way. It's been things like chicken or most recently steak. Luckily, for some reason Junior always takes the bait from me and do you know what happens he always loves it! Maybe you don't like a grass fed rib eye I spent the whole day marinating but Junior, he has good taste!