Fatties Are Bad at Parenting...a Fellow Parent's Observation and It Isn't About the Size of the Children So I take my family to the mall earlier. This particular mall has a children's play-pace. I appreciate that they do this, germ risks aside. My wife and I can walk around the mall and make a stop and let the kiddos run off some energy...and it's free and easy and has comfortable seating. All good so far.  The problem is other people's children. Never mind the minor violations of the rules (i.e. kids running barefoot or being too tall). Inevitably my poor 2.5 year old gets knocked down by some overstuffed sausage child due to a pure lack of attention being paid. Now this happens and oh well, but the kids causing the most trouble are always "supervised" by planets.  The parents  are paying no attention to their children as they are far to busy with their faces pointing at their phone.  Additionally, I start to feel bad for the children. The children make the typical efforts of children across the world of "hey mom, watch this!" or "did you see that?". These questions are vaguely met with blank stares from parents who did no such thing. Its sad. Instead of encouraging the kids to play wisely and take a certain amount of risk and independence they are ignored. The kids then ramp their behavior higher and higher in an attention-seeking effort until something goes wrong. Its sad. Disgusting. I hate the parents.