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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
One of my biggest pet peeves in life are those women who think that they are so damned special just because they chose to have kids. They think it is OK to bring those SUVs called strollers into the tinest store
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Argh! That is the WORST! I was once in a small doctor's waiting room and a woman tried to navigate her SUV stroller around the room. After banging into a few people's chairs she said (unappologically) "Sorry, this thing's hard to drive".
THEN GET A SMALLER ONE! Seriously, what is the need for those huge things??
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And those mothers who act like their screaming whining food-throwing children are not disturbing the rest of the adults in a nicer restaurant
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Word. Why can't some parents say "no" to their children? Here's an excerpt from a very funny book called
The Three Martini Playdate that deals with this topic:
Once my son was playing with another boy, whom I will call "Butchie." Butchie thought it would be a good idea to punch my son repeatedly in the arm until my son cried. Butchie's father, who witnessed the event, pulled his son aside and told him that it was 'inappropriate' for Butchie to hit his friend ... in the arm. He said it very calmly and reasonably ...
I wanted to put in my two cents and say that I thought it was inappropriate to mince words when speaking to a four-year-old. ... Being excessively polite, I didn't say anything, but I ask you, why is it so difficult for an intelligent grown-up man to tell his son that his son did somthing bad?
... If I might be so judgemental, punching your friend in the arm is mean. It's bad. You hurt your friend, and you shouldn't hurt people. What is so awful about letting your children know this?
I like this woman. If I do become a mother, this is the sort of mother I plan to be. I think one of the many reasons I don't relish the idea of parenthood is because I don't want to hang out with people like the dad she described.