I find it sad too but I can sympathize because as of right now it is not really a pleasant time to be living in this Country and to a lesser extent this world so I can completely understand why people would want to medicate themselves with food and try to get as much pleasure as possible in a world that seems to becoming more and more bleak every day. I don't condone it but I can understand it and I feel that the current social climate breeds these types of situations.
Well, one must agree one can scarcely berate parents for using a stroller in a pedestrian environment. It is normal.Totally different things. If you have kids, you know that's not an apples to apples comparison. If you don't, let the floggings commence!
Kidding aside, We all have different backgrounds and experiences which allow us to make informed (to varying degrees) opinions about running a theme park. Plenty of folks make themselves look stupid by sharing uninformed opinion here.
But parenting is different from anything else. Even raising my own kids, I have to take very different approaches to parenting with each of them. Unless you are an expert of some kind, you couldn't possibly give me good parenting advice without getting to know my kids.
And yet, people without kids (people who know less about the subject than anyone else in the world) always seem to think they have the whole thing figured out. They've got all the answers and oh brother are they willing to share their collected wisdom. Usually it consists of doing the most obvious thing. The thing all new parents try first. The thing that never works.
They also get really put out when they are inconvenienced in any way by families. Because their world still revolves around them. (Yes, gross generalization, I know.) These are the people who rant for pages and pages about the evils of strollers at a place which is marketed aggressively to families with small children.
Using food as a crutch is no way for a person to escape his/her problems. Emotional eating is a very dangerous habit to develop. Eating for comfort not only does nothing to eliminate the problem(s) from which you are running from, but it also makes conditions worse, and can easily become an addiction. I understand we all face problems & difficulties, but eating for the sole purpose of relieving stress or escaping a dilemma cannot be sympathized with under any circumstance.
When you wish upon a star,
Did you hear...7DMT completed its first drop! It seems every step of construction is seen by Disney as a news worthy event. Seriously though, why do the imagineers keep taking big group photos as if they were part of the Apollo missions first launch? Last week they took one because the first car arrived, this week another for the first big drop event. I am opening some mail later, perhaps they will pose with me for this monumental event...my cable bill! (Comcast.haha)
Seriously? You find none of this detracting?
No one likes walls of trash or fences blocking their views or access through the parks... and people don't like walls of strollers doing the same thing.
The same can be said of business. Some people are experienced in being part of them... some even have experience helping making choices in one... but that's not the same as being 'the man' who actually is on the hook for everything.. good or bad. They are also not all the same... just as you know things about your kids that others do not at first glance.. the same can be said of businesses and the constraints they operate under.
Let's be real... what makes this 'different' is by some telling others how parenting is done, they are trying to tell YOU how to parent. When you both rant about Disney.. neither of you take personal offense because neither of you have personal vestment into what is being criticized. When someone says 'this is how parenting should be...' they are through inclusion making claims how YOUR parenting should be.
Being uninformed hasn't stopped ranting about topics before... the uninformed will do the same about parenting too. Even from other parents
I am not a parent, yet. I dont know how you guys do it. Especially with more than one kid. We babysat my 1 year old nephew and 6 year old niece for 5 hours and I was more worn out than a long day at WDW. After dropping them off at my brothers my wife and I joked about how pooped we were just keeping up with them and then we realized that for my brother and his wife, it NEVER ends, and on top of that they have to work and deal with daily life. I seriously dont know how you do it.Then you must realize how wrong you are.
I think I mostly agree with what you're getting at. In text, it's hard to tell exactly how to interpret the emphasis on YOU and YOUR.
On the whole, I'm a lot more receptive to parenting tips from other parents. We may not have the same parenting style. We may not agree. But odds are they get it. Parenting is hard. Harder than anyone can ever understand unless they have been there. Parents have earned the right to discus the subject of parenting.
People who have never had kids are usually really quick to offer advice like "Just tell them no sometimes" like it's really as easy as all that. Or specific to this conversation, they will make judgements about which kids should or should not be in a stroller. "Just make them walk". STFU. I'll decide for myself whether or not my kids should be in a stroller.
Parenting is a profound and deeply personal experience. It's the single most important thing most people will ever do in their lifetime. So naturally there is resistance when someone offers unsolicited advice on parenting. Especially when the person offering said advice has no parenting experience.
Your initial post suggested we should apply the same reasoning to businesses. That anyone without direct experience operating a theme park or resort should not voice their opinions on this subject. But the two subjects are not equivalent.
I don't have a background in the industry and I think I can safely say I'm not qualified to run Disney, the resort, the parks or even the hotels. By those standards, I do not have an informed opinion. If I were in a conversation with someone with first hand experience, I would not be offering my opinion unless they asked. Then I would be offering my insights as a customer.
What we're having here is a conversation among fans. The quality of insights and opinions varies wildly from poster to poster. @ParentsOf4 never fails to enlighten. Whereas other posters (*cough*jt*cough*) are usually a distraction at best. Mostly, we're just passing the time and sharing common interests. That's a different thing than making proclamations on proper parenting techniques. At least in my book it is.
). If you go in and start telling a business owner how their business should be ran.. and you've got no actual insight into THEIR specifics or what they have or have not tried... you're going to rub the business owner the wrong way and they are going to get defensive. Again, it's not that it's "parenting vs business" but that you are challenging THEIR choices without an understanding of THEIR situation. And here the root cause is the challenging of someone's personal choices from another that someone feels is uniformed or unqualified to judge. They tend to be easy to ID... the opinions that gravitate to the extremes (watch your kid every second...) typically are the ones with limited or no experience. Because the experienced ones know just how unpractical the statements are and wouldn't project such fallacies.
