Excellent Parenting All Around

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I was reading a news article about a 2-year-old boy who accidentally drank some of his father's White Russian. They were at a Chinese restaurant and the parents weren't paying attention to the child. The little boy's name is Jadm. He's fine, but I nearly vomited when I saw that.

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[heysezi.livejournal.com]

Oh that's terrible. How would you even pronounce that?!

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I would guess it might be Jay-dem, but I could be way off. It could be pronounced Winston.

[fatinah-aila.livejournal.com]

Perhaps one of the consonants might be a mute one, so it is either Jad or Jam.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I said it like the word Jam with a d stuck in the middle... that is NOT Jadem, not that Jadem is much better or anything but... jeesus.

[inebriatedcharm.livejournal.com]

I pronounced it first as "Adam" but.. starting with a J. Jadam?

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Your name shouldn't look like a giant typo.

[sal_amanda]

Did you happen to see that article on Mock_the_Stupid by any chance? Based on the ridiculous behavior of the parents, I'm not surprised by the awful name choice. They mentioned there was a daughter, too, so now I'm curious to know what her name is.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not a member of Mock_the_Stupid. I saw it on sf_drama and ontd_political.

The daughter, I believe, is the husband's from another relationship, but yeah, I'd like to know what her name is. These two "adults" certainly don't seem like the sharpest knives in the drawer.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

The parents are idiots, trying to sue the restaurant (I thought I read that) calling 911 on them. I personally don't find fault with either of the parents for the fact that the kid managed to drink some of the alcohol, though. But Jadm is horrible.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I think they called 911 for the 2-year-old, to make sure he was ok after drinking the alcohol.

[coquine.livejournal.com]

As a child, I accidentally took a sip of an uncle's alcoholic drink. We were at a family gathering at my grandma's. My cousins and I were running around and being kids. I went into the kitchen and took a sip of what I thought was my glass of soda or juice off the counter. It was an honest accident on my part. My parents, grandma and various other people were in the room, I was even talking to my grandma when the event happened. She laughed at the face I made.

While the name sucks, things like this happen all the time. Mine was an honest mistake, I could imagine my parents being put onto the internet for it.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

My daughter will drink ANYTHING in a cup, bottle, or can. She got ahold of a bottle of my husband's beer once. We're pretty sure she got at least a sip out of it, but according to my husband there was a decent amount missing:-[

[coquine.livejournal.com]

Mistakes happen. It isn't that you're a bad parent. You didn't hand your child the drink. Kids grab whatever they want and your attention can't be on the 24/7, although you wish it could be.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I think the point of putting this on the internet was the fact that the couple tried to blame the restaurant staff for the accidental sip of alcohol the little boy ingested. If they hadn't been royal douches about the incident, I doubt it would have turned into such a big deal.