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Originally Posted by TheWickerFan
I read the article you posted and I'm not entirely sure what to think. I avoided shopping with my pre school age children as often as possible. I was fortunate, I have a husband, and a mother who lives close by so getting someone to watch the children while I ran errands wasn't normally an issue, but there are loads of people who aren't so lucky. What exactly are you supposed to do when your 2 year old starts crying on the checkout line with you madly loading a week's worth of groceries onto the conveyor belt and the cashier starts complaining about the noise? Put a gag in their mouth? Maybe the sucker the cashier suggested would have worked, but more likely the kid would have thrown it to the ground and screamed louder. I myself probably would have been so pissed I would have left all the groceries there on the conveyor belt picked up my screaming child and left.
Restaurants and movie theaters are optional activities that you do not have to go to. Errands such as grocery shopping are necessary and sometimes you have to take the rugrats with you.
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Granted, but you don't have to be a dick when people are annoyed by your screaming brat. I would say that shame and embarrassment are appropriate emotions, but self-righteousness. Puh-lease.
The point of the blog is that these people are ridiculously self-indulgent and delusional - They can't possibly comprehend WHY anyone would say ANYthing when their little precious is
just expressing themselves or that their little darling is
just doin' what babies do.
I understand that not everyone can get a sitter. The point isn't so much that I can't believe that they took their kid out... For me to assume that no one should bring their child out ever is a bit fascist even beyond my own scope... No, the point is that that person was so self righteously indignant that someone was annoyed by their screaming brat that she actually posted it on Facebook.
I mean - COME ON. NOT EVERYONE LIKES THE SOUND OF YOUR CHILD'S VOICE.
Have a sense of humor, WF!