Am i right in assuming this is a faux pas?
There are several times in life that i've wanted to just quietly explain to parents that what they're doing and/or allowing their child to do is just plain unacceptable. I'm generally not talking about anything horrifying, just good manners in most cases.
One example i'll throw out there occurred yesterday; i was walking into a shop to overhear a young girl near the entrance, likely around 8 years old at a guess, telling her mum she was finished with her juice box. The mother instructed her daughter to throw it out of the door, firstly this projectile rubbish narrowly missed me as it flew past and obviously this is also littering. There was a bin around 5ft from the entrance to the shop. It's a small thing i know, but there was this strong urge to explain to them that it was totally unacceptable behaviour, but being a typically British passive aggressive i thought i'd write an angry post on the internet instead.
I work in a school and because of parenting like this it's nearly impossible to explain to some children why they should throw away their own rubbish, they just don't understand that people should clean up after themselves. It's like you're talking a foreign language, often the children just reply with 'Why?' when instructed to collect their own food packaging in the canteen.
We have all been there i'm sure, sat in a restaurant trying to have a nice meal whilst children scream past you, trying to make your way around a supermarket while a child runs riot, looking through a picnmix while a young snotty nosed boy helps himself with his hands (I have actually witnessed the latter, the mother snatched what he was halfway through eating from him and threw the sweets BACK into the pixnmix!).
Have you ever been in a situation where you've said something? If not, could you imagine yourself saying something?
What would/have you said?
There are several times in life that i've wanted to just quietly explain to parents that what they're doing and/or allowing their child to do is just plain unacceptable. I'm generally not talking about anything horrifying, just good manners in most cases.
One example i'll throw out there occurred yesterday; i was walking into a shop to overhear a young girl near the entrance, likely around 8 years old at a guess, telling her mum she was finished with her juice box. The mother instructed her daughter to throw it out of the door, firstly this projectile rubbish narrowly missed me as it flew past and obviously this is also littering. There was a bin around 5ft from the entrance to the shop. It's a small thing i know, but there was this strong urge to explain to them that it was totally unacceptable behaviour, but being a typically British passive aggressive i thought i'd write an angry post on the internet instead.
I work in a school and because of parenting like this it's nearly impossible to explain to some children why they should throw away their own rubbish, they just don't understand that people should clean up after themselves. It's like you're talking a foreign language, often the children just reply with 'Why?' when instructed to collect their own food packaging in the canteen.
We have all been there i'm sure, sat in a restaurant trying to have a nice meal whilst children scream past you, trying to make your way around a supermarket while a child runs riot, looking through a picnmix while a young snotty nosed boy helps himself with his hands (I have actually witnessed the latter, the mother snatched what he was halfway through eating from him and threw the sweets BACK into the pixnmix!).
Have you ever been in a situation where you've said something? If not, could you imagine yourself saying something?
What would/have you said?
gg 
i understand what your saying and while it maybe more right than wrong whether it works in the real world without some kind of negative response from protective parent or some kind of confrontation from them is up to you in how you pursue it if you want to.