Anti-authoritarian upbringing
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Anti-authoritarian upbringing is an urban legend, that critically deals with the - supposed - effects of the anti-authoritarian way of upbringing. It is widespread in some (Swiss-)German-speaking areas.
[edit] One version of the story
In a supermarket queue, a young mother with her son are waiting behind an aged woman. The aged woman silently suffers the naughty boy with his heavy shopping cart driving against her achilles heel intentionally and multiple times, until she turns around and pleases him to stop it.
But the boy continues and his mother plays deaf. The old lady gets angry and begs: "The boy crashes into my feet again and again, please stop him from doing that!" But the mother isn´t understanding at all: "One has to let this child act freely, it enjoys an anti-authoritarian upbringing. She nohow wants to blame her child.
Thereon, a young man, who also waits in the queue - right behind mother and son - picks a yogurt from his cart, opens it up and pours it out over the mother´s head, commenting that with: "I´ve been brought up anti-authoritarian, too". "Buy this yogurt on my account!" shouts an old man.
[edit] Different versions
- There is a version that play in a Vienna, Linz or Graz streetcar: The boy kicks the woman in shinbones. The Pouring-out of yogurt over the mother is replaced by spitting on her. The young man can be a girl around twenty, too.
- Yogurt can be honey or marmelade, too.
