Working with customers tests your patience in a way that very few things can. Of course, it depends on which criteria you look at, but I'd say it can be a lot harder than many white-collar jobs, too.
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A recent post on r/EntitledParents tells the story of a bowling alley employee helping with a large tournament, only for the event to be disturbed by a young boy's desire to play on their iPad and his mother's public meltdown.
Parents need to help children understand and regulate their emotions
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Because picking up the pieces can sometimes get really messy
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Vicki Broadbent of Honest Mum says devices can be useful when taking your kids to public events
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The idea to employ an iPad on an evening like this one isn't necessarily a bad one. On the contrary! Our parenting expert, Vicki Broadbent, is the founder of the family blog Honest Mum and a multi-award-winning TV broadcaster and author of The Working Mom: Your Guide to Surviving and Thriving at Work and Home. She told Bored Panda, "Screens in public are often necessary. As long as it's in moderation, that's fine, and they can be helpful when traveling or eating in a restaurant."
Broadbent, who is raising a teen, a tween, and a toddler, said, "A lot of content is educational as well as entertaining, and we now live in a digitized world, so we have to learn to live in harmony with tech and utilize it to help us."
However, that doesn't mean you can just put a device in your kid's hands and forget about them.
"Our duty as parents is to safeguard our children, so our number one priority must be to ensure they are safe, know exactly where they are at all times, and keep them out of harm's way," Broadbent said.
"I like to explain to my children where we are going ahead of time and that they must stay close in order to be safe. I have trackers on my older children's phones, so I know where they are at all times."
Of course, there was probably a lot happening at the tournament, and the boy's mom may have been overwhelmed, but she could have given the employee the benefit of the doubt before jumping to conclusions. Hopefully, the family can get a breather at home and learn from this experience. After all, the dad needs their support!
People had a lot to say about the whole ordeal
