ooh I can't stand parents like these.
They pacify their children so that they can stand them the few hours they have to spend with them, then leave the rest of us to deal with the damages.

There was this situation at work when a black mother came in with her bad kids--they were screaming, running, climbing up ladders, playing with thousands of dollars worth of equipment--etc

well...
one of the children were crying for some chocolate that they'd picked off of the shelf--I work at an upper-scale creative design and arts store and this was no 25cent piece of chocolate--So the mother picks the chocolate that she took away back up and hands it back to the child to make him quiet. The chocolate is near the front counter and the child was screaming his head off so we saw all of this going on.
By the time she got to the front to pay of course the child had unwrapped the chocolate and was half-way done eating it.
My co-worker (white) asked "what about that" after she rang everything else up. The mother then asks "How much is it?" when she's told the price she immediate starts up--"oh no no. He picked that up and started eating it. I aint payin for that"
My co-worker is the type to not back down even though she doesn't look it (she's a tiny little white girl) and said, "Mamn, I saw you hand him the chocolate so I'd assumed you were intending to buy it"
-"Well I wasn't going to buy it. I was going to give it to you when we got here to put back"

long story shorter, the woman never paid, she called the manager and accused my co-worker of being racist. co-worker got written up then quit that same day because she was so angry with the situation. I didn't like the girl so it was blessing the woman went to her station instead.
Irony is the woman paid for about $50 dollars worth of merchandise with a return card of stolen items worth over $200.

I know I won't be that type of parent. The dog doesn't even get fed until she sits patiently and waits for it. I'm a sergeant!