Some Superb Loud Parenting happening on my bus right now

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A father - can you believe it - an actual man, has just wheeled a buggy containing a small person onto an real, live Bus.

I know....

I'm not sure if that's very happened before but at least everyone on this bus is in NO DOUBT that this is an exceptional and extraordinary father and a genius child because we are very luckily, able to share in the running commentary.

He has loudly proclaimed to all of us that Leo LOVES busses and has been on them several times.we have been treated to the dames of all the bus stops "now you say it Leo"... abs we also know that Leo is finding it all so exciting and already knows his numbers up to five! I mean..!

Leo would apparently love a carrot stick right now, but so elite are this mans parenting skills, that he has told leo the whole bus that there will "no eating on the wibbly wobbly bus because he could choke".

Later. Leo is having egg and avocado for tea before picking which pyjamas he wants to wear.

He has also just awarded Leo Olympic gold for pressing the bell and explained that "he'd drive it if we let him".

I don't know about that last claim. I think he would struggle to reach the clutch.

But anyway. Just thought people should know that a child rode a bus today neither his dad. I am trying it to feel inadequate.

Sorry for typos. I'm a bit overwhelmed

I hope you were all suitably impressed and fawning at this amazing feat that has never, ever, been done before. I wonder what would happen if he ever took Leo to the park…nah, it can’t be done!

Haha Loving your commentary

Brilliant

Oh Leo. Good luck, mate.

wow, i hope the mother showers him with garlands upon his triumphant return home.

The best way to develop language skills as a parent is to talk along side your child

Why do you think this is worthy of derision?

Weak communication skills are a barrier to learning

Leo would go well with Phoebe who was with her Dad in my gym pool today.
She could swim like a dolphin! she couldn't even though she needed a rubber ring and arm bands. We had jumping in, kicking legs and flipppy floppy hands shouted at 100 decibels.
Poor Phoebe looked totally pissed off along as every other pool user apart from Daddy who was shocked! - shocked! I tell you at her natural water baby abilities. No, I don't know what it means either.

I was on a plane opposite a child of about 3 for almost 3 hours

Her Parents did not speak to her in a sentence at all!

Would they meet your self defined parenting test?

I really hope Leo ends up being a real life bus driver.
His Daddy will be so proud

@Tooembarrassingtomention

The best way to develop language skills as a parent is to talk along side your child

Why do you think this is worthy of derision?

Weak communication skills are a barrier to learning

Well yes to talking to babies but we must all have seen the difference between a parent/carer happily chatting away and interacting with a child and then the absolute performance parenting some people do.

The child is inches from them but they're using a booming stage voice you can hear from 20ft with occasional sideways glances to see who's listening. I can tell the difference on my commute they're the ones I can hear clearly over my podcast

I wonder what these performance parents do if it turns out their child does not have the highest grades in class or doesn't win every competition the parents enter the child in.

Like the dad teaching little Azalia in the pool in Tenerife to swim by very loudly playing 'rescue bucket' . Rescue bucket fgs.

Leo's going to be right pain in the arse. Poor Leo

Yeah chuck him the phone with YouTube kids on it. It might compromise his language acquisition and lead to poor self-regulation, but whatever, people on the bus will be able to mindlessly scroll their phones in zombified silence.

@Tooembarrassingtomention

The best way to develop language skills as a parent is to talk along side your child

Why do you think this is worthy of derision?

Weak communication skills are a barrier to learning

It also helps if your child, on starting school, knows how to talk in a quieter voice when appropriate. Not everybody needs to know.

@Guineapigbridge

Yeah chuck him the phone with YouTube kids on it. It might compromise his language acquisition and lead to poor self-regulation, but whatever, people on the bus will be able to mindlessly scroll their phones in zombified silence.

Oooh - methinks a nerve has been touched !

"I think he would struggle to reach the clutch."

Aren't the mostly automatic transmission these days?

Definitely a huge difference between talking to your baby / child about things you can see, what you've done etc and Brian Blessed volume;

Oh look, Agamemnon! There's a cat. Oh, but we call it 'ailorous' like in Ancient Greece, don't we? And there's a pigeon. What do we call a pigeon in Ancient Greek, Agamemon?'

Meanwhile poor Aga is making that face he does when he poos and is mining for bogey gold up his nostril.

😂

I bet Leo is sitting thinking “dad, what you being a twat for, it’s McDonald’s for tea on Mondays.”

Tooembarrassingtomention. Hmmm along with the complete ball ache of performance parenting comes the lack of humour attached to the professionally offended parenting /child development experts.....

It's the stage voice that grates, not the content, for those who are saying chat is good for kids. Of course it is, but that's not the same as performance parenting at all. Performance parenting is truly barf-inducing.

Yes, nerve touched. Daughter of a speech therapist and I teach reading at school. Kids coming through have barely any language. They're numb because their parents barely talk to them anymore. If you're not talked to, you don't pick up reading. It's really as simple as that.