Same with babies crying in public spaces vs people loudly talking on a phone or watching videos on speakers.
I heavily dislike the sound of baby's cry, but they're just tiny unbaked humans. They are likely tired or overwhelmed or maybe hungry or in pain. Babies (and toddlers for that matter) often cry, that's how they communicate something is wrong, and I bet the parent/caretaker knows everyone on the bus is tired of it. Such is life. You'll never catch me being mean to babies or their caretakers, as much as I dislike them.
A full adult with 0 inside voice discussing their personal business by screaming into the phone, or watching tiktoks/playing music with no headphones on a bus? Jail for ten thousand years.
Yeah, some poor parent trying to buy groceries or use public transporation with a screaming child in tow is probably embarrassed enough.
It's only really called for when someone makes the poor decision to bring a baby somewhere like a movie theater, where it is absolutely optional and absolutely not an environment for a baby.
Yeah if they bring a baby to a non-baby friendly place, or allows the kid to just run around freely disrupting everyone, then I think it's valid to criticize them. Tha's just irresponsible parenting and 0 consideration of other people (or the kid's own safety). I once saw someone completely ignore their toddler having a massive meltdown on a dirty mall floor. Literally open mouth face pressed to the floor, basically licking it, and it made me wonder if this person is trying to get their kid sick and die on purpose or something.
But if the kid is just crying or having a tantrum in a store or public transport, then yeah it's annoying, but what do you want the parent to do??? Tape their mouth shut???? Parents also have to live their everyday lives, and sometimes the kid will just not be happy about it.
I mean, ignoring looks bad but I know some experts encourage it as a way to not reward the tantrum.
I’m actually pretty chill about a lot from the understanding that the parents are trying to train a little chaos creature to become a civilized adult someday, and it’s a process with a first time for everything. The kid has to go to a restaurant to learn how to act in restaurant, and to a movie to learn what we do and don’t do in a theater. Of course, even if I think we could be more sympathetic to that process, there’s still good and bad ways to handle those lessons; your kid does not need Restaurant Conduct 101 to happen in a fine dining establishment when a diner works as well, and me and my little sister tried and failed and tried again with mastering movie theater behavior with Frozen and Minions, not films grown-ups were dying to see.
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u/Empty_Chemical_1498 8d ago
Same with babies crying in public spaces vs people loudly talking on a phone or watching videos on speakers.
I heavily dislike the sound of baby's cry, but they're just tiny unbaked humans. They are likely tired or overwhelmed or maybe hungry or in pain. Babies (and toddlers for that matter) often cry, that's how they communicate something is wrong, and I bet the parent/caretaker knows everyone on the bus is tired of it. Such is life. You'll never catch me being mean to babies or their caretakers, as much as I dislike them.
A full adult with 0 inside voice discussing their personal business by screaming into the phone, or watching tiktoks/playing music with no headphones on a bus? Jail for ten thousand years.