Children Run Wild

Everyone has something that they can not stand about people in public. One of the most frustrating and annoying things in public are parents who allow their children to run wild and misbehave in public. The mall, and really every public place, can be a haven for badly behaved children. There is nothing wrong with letting a child have fun, but there is a time and place for everything. Stores should not act as baby sitters. Parents who let their child run free while they shop are either too lazy to look after them, or they just do not care about the child and what he or she is doing. This not just an issue of the parent and child though. When people are in public places there is going to be other people around. Even if the parent does not care about the child, they should at least have the decency to understand that them and their child are disrupting the public.
This is not only a problem in stores and shopping areas though. These same uncaring parents also drop there children off at the movie theater like it is a day care center. Unfortunately, it is the innocent citizens that have to put up with young children yelling and running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. These innocent people paid good money to watch a movie in peace and these kids are texting, laughing, and talking loudly as the movie is being played.
Parents should be ashamed to walk in a buy an R rated ticket and give it to their eleven and twelve year old children, but they are not. This is why the theaters need to become more strict on the age groups they are letting in to the R rated movies.