Take it Like a Champ

I know was soon as I mention Service Animals, the general assumption is that the whole blog will be about Service Animals. Today is not that day.

Yes, my Service Dog had a painfully rude encounter with a horrible parent. Look. If you've raised a spoiled child, and refuse to be a hands on parent to STOP your child from misbehaving, your only saving grace is that I'm on the clock at work. Otherwise I would parent your spoiled child correctly, and give you a verbal assault. 

"Don't bother the puppy. Don't play with the puppy," as your child pokes, smacks, and comes nose to nose with a Service Dog who it doesn't know. Scratch the "Service" away from the title and you still have a dog you don't know. You child - and you - land in a lucky plavlce with a dog that has been trained endlessly to NOT react to brats and dicks like you. Most would show teeth or go for a nip. So stop for a second and examine you level of parenting.

Are you keeping your child safe? No.
Are you abusing a system to allow you child to misbehave towards a defenseless creature? Yes.
Are you stopping your child from acting out, and abusing another living being? No.

Parents need to bone up on educating their children. You can't be buddy buddy all the time. You need to have that parental role where your child eventually will say that they hate you. You need to be a leader. Discipline is not abuse. Abuse of said power is. And not disciplining your child and teaching them they can act out without fear of discipline or retribution for their actions does not ready them for the world they are growing up to be a part of. That builds more of the little prissy shits we call "millenials" who file frivolous law suits because they get offended. Eventually they will be FORCED to bend over and take what life gives them, dry, and without mercy or care for their fragile feelings that you allowed them to get away with by babying them since they were born.