Lawyer yells at 8-year-old kid for running around the office and slamming door, his mom refuses to apologize or punish him: 'This morning apparently I’m the talk of their office'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Oct 20, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

Do you ever hear about a situation and think, 'This has happened to Miranda Hobbes?' It's not even a question of whether it might've happened to her or whether it would've been a good storyline for her: The situation shared in this Reddit post is the most Miranda thing I've ever heard. It's more Miranda than anything that happened to her on either of the two hit shows featuring her. 

A lawyer (let's just call her Miranda) found herself in a distracting situation when an 8-year-old came running through the hallways of her office. He was slamming doors and generally making a mockery of the professional environment. His mother worked as a telemarketer on another floor and let him roam free to his heart's content. Miranda decided she couldn't take the ruckus anymore and took matters into her own hands. She didn't hurt him, but she did tell him to stop. 

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    AITA for barging into an office and telling them to make stop their kid from opening our office door?
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    So I work in an office building with different offices on each floor. Every afternoon one of the lady's in a different office brings her kid and allow him to run up and down the halls constantly opening and closing our had enough. I opened the door just as he door. Yesterday I slammed it and I yelled at him to stop opening and closing our door. I then barged into their office and told them I didn't know whose kid that was but they better make him stop opening and closing our door. I then filed a
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    This morning apparently I'm the talk of their office. "That's her... that's the lady...." Yes it's me and maybe if you weren't such a useless of a parent maybe your kid wouldn't have gotten yelled at. This kid is at least 7 or 8 and should at least be taught some common courtesy. I work in a law office while they're nothing but telemarketers.
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    LadyA052 I worked in a large corporate building years ago and one of the directors would bring in her daughter who was about 7. We had bathrooms with multiple stalls, and when this little darling came in to use the bathroom, she'd pull a handle, and if it was locked (someone using it) she would drop to the floor and climb underneath the door. We could periodically hear screaming from the bathroom and we always knew what was happening. The mother didn't care at all.
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    marbel Um-I grew up having to spend the day in my dad's office sometimes (he's a dentist, but same type of deal). In no way were we to act feral. We were allowed to bring homework, do office chores, help out, and be polite to patients. Maybe in the 80s we were allowed to stuff bills. Otherwise we were SOL. What the no one is raising their freaking kids anymore.
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    ButterscotchTape55 no one is raising their freaking kids anymore Teacher subreddits are damning proof of this way too often for so many reasons. If we weren't already, we're barreling toward idiocracy. Multiple generations of undereducated ipad kids will one day be in charge of businesses and be running in political campaigns (depending on this election I guess yikes)
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    Zefirus They also refuse to allow others to discipline their kids, even if they're the one's left in charge. And I'm talking like incredibly basic things like talking to them about why they shouldn't do something.
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    KingAltair2255 Hit the nail on the head there, there's been a big shift in the last 20 years where parents are afraid to parent others children in the sense of telling them off. I babysit my little cousins a lot, i'm used to scolding them and will happily scold them even when their parents are around if they need a talking to, but the simple fact of the matter is that folk are afraid to now. There's so many parents nowadays that'd just jump down your throat for daring to talk to their kid in any
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    ZombieHealthy2616 yep - everyone has a snowflake and all of those snowflakes are not permitted to be disciplined. Throw a chair at a teacher? Oh... you get to go back to the class for the classroom birthday party in 15 minutes because we wouldn't want little Johnnie missing out on classroom fun.
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    blazinazn007 My wife and I are doing our hardest to not be like that. Discipline is key. We are NOT spanking and trying not to yell, but when I say "if you do this, then this will happen," we stick to it. My kid is 3 but there have been plenty of times she's had to face consequences. Throw something again after I asked you nicely not to do it or else were going home? Whelp, you threw something again so we're going home. Was it embarrassing walking to the car with her over my shoulder throwing a
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    ZombieHealthy2616 Right? I'm so sick of all of the excuses made for poor behavior. Behavior can be changed with proper parenting and discipline. Discipline does not need to be physical or yelling. Find your kid's currency and use it for behavior modification. le: Laura is home late for curfew again? Car keys are mine for a week - sorry. You need to figure out other transportation while you think about responsibility. Brody isn't doing his very
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    few chores he is responsible for? Well... clearly if Brody does not have time for chores, Brody does not have time for video games... he can have them back when he shows responsibility with chores. Parents are so freaking afraid of saying No to their kids. Feelings are important but so is respecting yourself and others.
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    Key Apartment1929 NTA. Kids have no business in a law office unless they're relevant to a case. Parents like that need to learn a lesson.
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    numbersthen0987431 The parents need to learn manners. The reason the kid is running around is because the parents told them to "go bug someone else"
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    TaisharMalkier69 I went to my parents' offices regularly. My dad even had a bureaucracy job. So lots of public. I never behaved like an idiot. We were taught to respect that we were in a professional environment and that we could not just run around like a bunch of monkeys. This is all just bad parenting.
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    I_ship_it07 You will never be anything but NTA. How was it even allowed?! You did what everybody didn't dare to do and many must thank you
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    Legitimate-Report-60 OP There's 3 offices on this floor them included. They are new to the building and they probably won't be here longer with the amount of complaints about them from us and the bank.
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    DMGrimes69 I loved your rant. Hilarious. You don't need anger management. That was pure gold.
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