It's Okay!

How many times have you been at someone's house, or in a waiting room, or in a store and your child is doing something he shouldn't be, and when you try to stop him from whatever that something is, the person you're with says "Oh no, he's fine! It's okay!"? (Wow, long run on sentence)

So often, when we're in a waiting room, Jaymes will start doing something he should not be doing. Maybe it's an obsession with someone's purse. I'll tell him to cut it out, the person being harassed says "oh no, it's okay!"

So I feel like an idiot for continuing to tell Jaymes to stop, or for pulling him away but I also don't want him antagonizing other people and thinking that something he knows perfectly well is not allowed is fine.

Why do people do this? is it a politeness thing? Do they not want to offend the parents? I'd much rather that person being poked at by Jaymes give him a good, stern NO. If it's really bothering them and they're saying "it's ok" just to be polite... well that annoys the hell out of me! Don't say it's ok if it isn't, and even if it is ok, it's not your place to make me as a mom feel like a moron for enforcing the rules!

Wow, this is a godawful post. I'll re-write it later probably. My apologies, folks.