To think dad should have stopped babies touching handrails on the tube and then sticking their hands in their mouth after?

Its quite ironic that you are the only one that seems upset, irate and triggered by this, but you seem to think everyone else is 😂

The excessive and inappropriate use of the word ‘triggered’ is so tedious to read.

Do you have kids OP? You just get used to it after a while or you would never be able to take your baby out anywhere unless you tied them up.

babies crawl all over and stick their hands in their mouths. Isn't it a thing now that kids aren't building up their immunity because people sterilise too much?

As someone whose 10 month old managed to put an entire snail in her mouth, licking a handrail is not something that would bother me too much.

Public handrails give me the ick so i carry anti-bac' gel but in general children need germs to build antibodiea and boost their immune systems.

It would have been interfering and rude to approach him.

It's how they build up immunity.

Thanks for your unsolicited advice random woman

Isn't that the usual mn response?

I can’t see how it’s any different to letting a child crawl, or press the button to cross the road, or move floors in the lift, or pretty much anything that’s shared with other people. Young children constantly put their hands in their mouths. Some of them also lick things.

I’m relaxed about the germs thing, but my DM never let us put our mouths on or near the metal rails at the top of bus seat backs (the one in front if no one was sitting on the seat) as we saw some kids doing. She’d been on a bus once which braked suddenly and a child’s mouth which was almost on the metal slammed forward on to the metal - there was much blood and some broken teeth, apparently.

This thread has made me laugh too 😂😂😂

🤣

I caught my kids several times actually licking the handle bar of my shopping cart when they were sat in there 🙈
Its what babies and little kids do.. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Upset and triggered eh? Now you sound even more ridiculous.

I suppose because you just see this and think oh well hey Ho, not take time out to wonder if the total stranger is doing something wrong?

aware I’m doing exactly the same 😁

The tube is a moving petri dish of germs (as is anywhere where hundreds of people are crammed in together) but pointing such things out to a random stranger never goes well.

Mind your own business, and find some interest in your own life.

It's gross, but telling someone about things like safety/hygiene never ends well. They're hardly likely to thank you for your advice are they? More likely you'll get a verbal abuse and if the parent is a chav, a slap around the face! It's not your problem and not your concern.

I'm imagining just how you would get anywhere if every time baby touched something you had to whip out sanitizer let alone how it would impact a babi
es impulse to learn and explore the poor child could become so germ phobic they couldn't function.
Op are you the parent who whips out the baby wipes as babies eating?

I took my eyes of my 3yo DD for 10 seconds on the Tube and looked up to see her licking the red pole 🤢 The looks I got, it wasn’t like I told her to lick it, kids are weird! I wanted to die on the spot.

However she’s 20 now and seems to have developed a super hero level immunity system, she’s rarely ill and still yet to get Covid. Maybe it was the pole licking? LOL!

If it's not your baby, mind your own business.

You know that babies go to soft play/baby groups/nurseries with other babies, where there is plenty of arse scratching and nose picking? 😂

Well, if he's on MN then presumably his response would have been "Thank you for your life advice random woman"....

Come off it - he'd have been right to laugh in your face. You do know our bodies and the entire world are full of microbes? We live in harmony with most of them. Babies and toddlers lick and touch everything. How many die of some awful infection?