Telling Someone Elses Kids to Be Quiet

[thetank]

I was in the soft play the other day, supervising my wee girl toddle about in the under 2's bit. She's about 14 months old.

This wee boy, about 3, went right up to her and knocked her over with a bit of rough play, like he was tigging her in tig and tag, but a little too heavily. She was ok and stuff, got right back up but then the wee boy knocked her over again. Again she got up and all seemed fine, but I was like, wtf has this kid been watching wrestling matches or some shit.

Honestly didn't know what the fuck to do. Just picked up the daughter and we went to a different part of the place.

"Just tell the wee boy to be careful" was the advice given to me, and fair enough, seems kind of ldo n stuff. At the time though, I was like "wtf do we do here?" and decided to err on the side of caution.

[Wardonkey]

Kids cry and have whiny voices. Is this a new thing?

Shouldn't we just be a bit more tolerant of kids acting normally?

If a child is behaving badly then asking them politely to be more considerate is not out of order, and will be successful in the vast majority of cases.

[ItsMrAlex2u]

Its not just kids, ignorant adults are just as bad.

Was sitting in a quiet restaurant with the missus the other day and someone at a table nearby was typing out war and peace on a text message. Wouldnt be a problem maybe but they hadnt siwtched off the key tones on their mobile.

After 2 pr 3 long messages had been exchanged. Beeb boop beep baap beep boob baap beep. I was getting fcking annoyed and in the end had to walk up to the table and ask them to put their phone on silent if they wanted to continue. How can people be that ignorant as to not be aware how many people they are pissing off?

[TheChipPrince]

Its not just kids, ignorant adults are just as bad.

Was sitting in a quiet restaurant with the missus the other day and someone at a table nearby was typing out war and peace on a text message. Wouldnt be a problem maybe but they hadnt siwtched off the key tones on their mobile.

After 2 pr 3 long messages had been exchanged. Beeb boop beep baap beep boob baap beep. I was getting fcking annoyed and in the end had to walk up to the table and ask them to put their phone on silent if they wanted to continue. How can people be that ignorant as to not be aware how many people they are pissing off?

lol, dont bad beat this fella at DTD next weekend!!!!   

[bolt pp]

I was in the soft play the other day, supervising my wee girl toddle about in the under 2's bit. She's about 14 months old.

This wee boy, about 3, went right up to her and knocked her over with a bit of rough play, like he was tigging her in tig and tag, but a little too heavily. She was ok and stuff, got right back up but then the wee boy knocked her over again. Again she got up and all seemed fine, but I was like, wtf has this kid been watching wrestling matches or some shit.

Honestly didn't know what the fuck to do. Just picked up the daughter and we went to a different part of the place.

"Just tell the wee boy to be careful" was the advice given to me, and fair enough, seems kind of ldo n stuff. At the time though, I was like "wtf do we do here?" and decided to err on the side of caution.

hhhhhhhmmmmmmmm, i feel kind of a hypocrite now but this seems to me to be an exception whereby it would probably be o.k as protecting your own child sort of takes precedence over any other social convention etc.

also i think theres probably a big difference in a complete stranger admonishing the kids the way he did in the OP's description and saying to a kid pushing over your daughter: "son, you have to be careful with her, she's a girl and a bit younger than you, you cant push her around like that, good man", cos thats what i wouldve said and id of felt alright about saying it as well.

[CelticGeezeer]

Just turn up your mp3 player.

[Royal Flush]

Camel rides the bus, that is as far as i got. Honestly wtf! Time is money!

[GreekStein]

Kids/People just have no idea of bus etiquette these days! the two things that annoy me most...

1)No-one ever gets up for old people/pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.

2)Every group of teenage boys decide to play their Channel U remix from their phone on max volume.

 

[Jon MW]

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1)No-one ever gets up for ... pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.
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I'm fairly easy going, but this really annoys me.   

A couple of years ago I used to get the bus home from work with a friend of mine - the whole way through her pregnancy, nobody ever gave up their seat for her to sit down.

I generally expressed my anger at the inconsiderate chavs who were doing this by giving them a jolly stern look - I think that put them in their place.

[Acidmouse]

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1)No-one ever gets up for ... pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.
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I'm fairly easy going, but this really annoys me.   

A couple of years ago I used to get the bus home from work with a friend of mine - the whole way through her pregnancy, nobody ever gave up their seat for her to sit down.

I generally expressed my anger at the inconsiderate chavs who were doing this by giving them a jolly stern look - I think that put them in their place.

Same happened to my wife last week on bus to Ripon, bus was packed, waited 10 seconds before telling the first person I saw under 60 to get up in a loud voice.  She's 9 1/2 months gone, sadly I was not suprised.

[Claw75]

She's 9 1/2 months gone

[ScottMGee]

My two children have never been smacked though I have nearly snapped a couple of times, and they are as well behaved as I was at their age.
They are punished by use of the naughty step or being put in their bed for the appropriate minutes.
They both have respect for me and their mother, without the need of resorting to a smack.

[AndrewT]

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1)No-one ever gets up for ... pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.
...

I'm fairly easy going, but this really annoys me.   

A couple of years ago I used to get the bus home from work with a friend of mine - the whole way through her pregnancy, nobody ever gave up their seat for her to sit down.

I generally expressed my anger at the inconsiderate chavs who were doing this by giving them a jolly stern look - I think that put them in their place.

There are too many women who are just obscenely fat that it's difficult to tell who is pregnant and who isn't. Someone even designed these for pregnant women to wear to avoid the 'is she pregnant or just a porker?' dilemma.



Sisters, put the Gregg's pasty down and maybe the pregnant will be more easily identifiable.

[Claw75]

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1)No-one ever gets up for ... pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.
...

I'm fairly easy going, but this really annoys me.   

A couple of years ago I used to get the bus home from work with a friend of mine - the whole way through her pregnancy, nobody ever gave up their seat for her to sit down.

I generally expressed my anger at the inconsiderate chavs who were doing this by giving them a jolly stern look - I think that put them in their place.

There are too many women who are just obscenely fat that it's difficult to tell who is pregnant and who isn't. Someone even designed these for pregnant women to wear to avoid the 'is she pregnant or just a porker?' dilemma.



Sisters, put the Gregg's pasty down and maybe the pregnant will be more easily identifiable.

Maybe in early pregnancy Andrew, but there was no way anyone could not have realised I was pregnant when I was 7+ months gone and I still had to stand on the tube around 70% of time on my way to and from work.  At 8.5 months gone and on my last journey to work before going off to have Hannah the woman standing next to me even commented loudly that she thought it was disgusing that no one had offered me a seat.  Then, when someone got off at the next stop and I went to sit down someone else actually tried to move in quickly from the other side and take the seat themselves!   

[cia260895]

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1)No-one ever gets up for ... pregnant women anymore. It's disgusting.
...

I'm fairly easy going, but this really annoys me.   

A couple of years ago I used to get the bus home from work with a friend of mine - the whole way through her pregnancy, nobody ever gave up their seat for her to sit down.

I generally expressed my anger at the inconsiderate chavs who were doing this by giving them a jolly stern look - I think that put them in their place.

There are too many women who are just obscenely fat that it's difficult to tell who is pregnant and who isn't. Someone even designed these for pregnant women to wear to avoid the 'is she pregnant or just a porker?' dilemma.



Sisters, put the Gregg's pasty down and maybe the pregnant will be more easily identifiable.

Maybe in early pregnancy Andrew, but there was no way anyone could not have realised I was pregnant when I was 7+ months gone and I still had to stand on the tube around 70% of time on my way to and from work.  At 8.5 months gone and on my last journey to work before going off to have Hannah the woman standing next to me even commented loudly that she thought it was disgusing that no one had offered me a seat.  Then, when someone got off at the next stop and I went to sit down someone else actually tried to move in quickly from the other side and take the seat themselves!   

oh was that you?

 if i had known you then i would have waited