My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

To think toddler on news was badly behaved?!

110 replies

Thingslikethisneverwork · 24/08/2017 00:17

Segment on milk allergies in children

OP posts:
Anecdoche · 24/08/2017 00:18

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Thingslikethisneverwork · 24/08/2017 00:19
OP posts:
Migraleve · 24/08/2017 00:19

More information needed.

Seriously, how do you expect people to form a balanced response Confused

Thingslikethisneverwork · 24/08/2017 00:19

Whoops sorry!

OP posts:
Migraleve · 24/08/2017 00:20

Sorry cross post. Didn't realise the missing link.

Migraleve · 24/08/2017 00:27

Sorry but I don't see a badly behaved toddler. I see an inquisitive child doing age appropriate, completely normal things.

The parent is the one in the wrong here. You can't call out a toddler for bad behaviour when they have never been told not to behave in such a manner!

Anecdoche · 24/08/2017 00:30

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Thingslikethisneverwork · 24/08/2017 00:31

No not blaming toddler - poor parenting I guess

OP posts:
Viviennemary · 24/08/2017 00:38

I wouldn't allow a child to climb on a desk or table. Poor parenting I'd say. Or lack of parenting.

Sparklingbrook · 24/08/2017 00:46

I feel for the parent really. She was on live TV, she wanted to say her bit not spend the short time she had wrestling a toddler who had been put into a TV studio and was being inquisitive.

unfortunateevents · 24/08/2017 00:47

The mum looked embarrassed. I'm sure under normal circumstances, if they were in a cafe or shop or whatever, the mum would have grabbed her and sat her down firmly but it's impossible to do that on TV when the cameras are rolling and you know it's going to result in tears and noise. Having said that, the news story I read said the toddler was 2 - who thought it was a good idea to put a mum with a 2 year old on the news?It's not like she was going to contribute anything useful to the story and her older brother was already to provide his experience and fulfil the cute child quotient!

GreatFuckability · 24/08/2017 00:50

omg, there are some miserable shits about. she was just being a kid, the presenter was laughing his head off, it made me smile. poor parenting? this is the reason we have so many women who think they are the worst parents on earth, this kind of sniffy judgemental bollocks. unclench, ffs.

4691IrradiatedHaggis · 24/08/2017 00:57

From the link given, I don't see a badly behaved toddler. She's what, two or three? Totally normal!
My immediate reaction was "where's the person supposedly looking after her while her brother's on telly?"
I assume that's her mum next to her brother giving the interview?
So toddler girl presumably had someone tasked with looking after her whilst mum and brother did their allergy segment on the news. Where were they? Should have been watching her.

Circumlocutor · 24/08/2017 00:59

Kid acts like kid. No big deal.

But why wasn't she being looked after at a safe distance? Unless they wanted this to go viral in the way that the lovely Marian in South Korea did.

HelenaDove · 24/08/2017 01:01

Haggis Perhaps they tried looking after the little girl away from her mum but the little girl might have cried or screamed at being separated.

AntiHop · 24/08/2017 01:03

She was behaving how a 2 year old behaves. No poor patenting or bad behaviour.

passmethewineplease · 24/08/2017 01:04

No. They were being a toddler.

News needs lightening up anyway.

If the mum had of wrestled with the toddler it wouldn't of made the best interview would it?

I can't stand people that label such young children as badly behaved. They are being s kid!

Now if it were say an 8 year old who was doing that I'd be in agreement but it wasn't so YABVU.

SumThucker · 24/08/2017 01:06

I'd have dreaded trying to wrestle my 2 year old off the table. Given her age she wasn't badly behaved, no. Her mum was probably cringing.

becotide · 24/08/2017 01:10

YABu, normal toddler.

quizqueen · 24/08/2017 01:32

No child of any age should be allowed to climb on a table. That is not what tables are for. They may try but they should be stopped. No wonder there are so many people in this world who grow up to think they should be allowed to behave as they please if the general consensus of opinion on mumsnet is that this sort of behaviour is okay. a) I would not taken the youngster to the interview in the first place and b) If I had no choice but to take her, I would said, in the middle of the interview, 'Excuse me while I remove my child because that behaviour is unacceptable' and I wouldn't care if she had made a fuss either. I would have been more embarrassed to think that viewers would think I couldn't discipline my child.

notangelinajolie · 24/08/2017 01:38

No, not badly behaved but where was the person who was supposed to be looking after her? Surely they are to blame? Which makes me think that the producer allowed this to happen. The mum looked v embarrassed - and who can blame her? I'm not sure I'd know what to say/do on live telly either. Must add though that although I don't believe the child was badly behaved - none of my kids would have climbed up and done that - especially if I'd told them to sit quietly somewhere and wait for mummy.

HelenaDove · 24/08/2017 01:48

Angelina see my post at 1.01

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

Circumlocutor · 24/08/2017 01:52

If the kid was upset at being parted from her mother, take her to another room. Don't say 'yeah kid, run up there and join the live broadcast'.

MinorRSole · 24/08/2017 01:56

The older child appears to be sitting nicely which leads me to believe this is an age issue rather than a parenting issue.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/08/2017 02:08

Yabu. She's a baby. FFS. It's nothing to do with poor parenting.
Its no wonder parents often feel inadequate.
I suppose you're Mary Poppins, are you, and your kids are saints

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.