I'm speechless.

That makes me truly sad.

I sure hope he doesn't take them home and beat them...

My family had a brunch recently, and this is the first time they told me this story, which is why it came up- now instead of in December...

These people also spend a lot of time in Disneyland pushing smaller children out of the way to get to Mickey first! I would love to see how these kids end up as adults.

I'm very sorry you had this experience at the Dickens Fair. Many of us that have responded here with outrage are performers and workers there, as well as parents of young children. Rest assured this is not indicative of the general attitude, but one man exercising extremely bad parenting at your own childrens' expense.

All we can do is use these episodes to try and teach our own kids how much it hurts our feelings when others disregard them and how to be considerate, polite, compassionate and kind people. Because the more of "us" there are, the more "they" are shamed.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Fair next year for what we hope will be a much more pleasant experience!

Cheers.

Dear Lord! You encountered these couthless turds as well? I believe these same little creeps were the ones hounding Fagin's Den. The man / parent-thingy , seemed to be encouraging his charges to be as disrespectful of everybody and everything as possible! They walked onto our stage , made themselves to home , started eating our foodstuffs , and there's me & Bill Sykes ( Bullyboys Ltd. ) , refraining from saying anything unsavory...quite restrained we were told later...and as best we could - in character - requested that they leave the stage. ( "You lads don't want to be 'ere when Fagin gets back, he'll put yer to work." ). They rebuffed this. The Parent-thingy then tried to hurl insults, "You must be the Mayor! Boys praise the Mayor,and his minion!". ( So now , we're starting to stew a little , but still trying to maintain our patron / performer boundries. ). We both broke character , and said in quiet voices to the Parent-thingy , "Look , we have to have your kids off the stage , if they fall or break something , they could do themselves an injury , and since we've alerted you to this , the fair cannot be held responsible." We had to go over this three times,including the addition of our cast director Gwen, before he got his kids to get off the stage. ( They did so grudgingly , and tried to take some of our swag too. ). We couldn't figure out if it was a put on or what. We wanted to murder them!

Gak, what complete trash. Back in the day.... they were just clueless, not out-and-out flaming assrude. (Back in the day I ran the carousel at a national park.)

Folks like that just make me feel sad and tired. My kids will have to deal with his kids when they get older.

Drop character and say this right to dad's face:
Your children must wait their turn. If you persist in telling them otherwise I will have security remove you and your children from the event immediately.

AHHHHHHHHH! I'm appalled, how horrible. It frightens me that my future childern will have to live in a world with people who were raised like that guy is raising his kids.