to think this Mother should be ashamed of herself?

[MrsMoosickle]

AIBU? Saw Mum push her DS ( about 1) to the smokers corner area outside my local Tesco. Light up and enjot a good ole chinwag with her smoker friends. Baby in buggy under a fug of cigarette smoke.

20 mins later see same Mother administer an asthma inhaler through a plasic tube thing to same DS in the Coffee Shop. FFS, has the world gone mad?

she remembered to take the inhaler etc out to tescos with her??

she did better than i would have i think!!

YANBU, I would have thought the same as you, but I think you may be accused of wearing judgy-pants! :)

YANBU.

Just like the mother I heard calling her DS (aged around 3, I would have guessed) "a fucking idiot" before telling him to "stop fucking crying, I know you're tired."

You see some kids with their parents and you want to take them off them. Cunts.

LOL. Pretty sure it was a bottle of tea the same DS was later swigging! I love these judgy pants

There are too many terrible parents about, that behaviour is indefensible. Yadnbu.

I would have been judgey pants too.

YADNU - but just feel sorry for her instead, she is addicted to tobacco even though she knows it makes her DS ill.

Makes me judgey and sad
When your mum doesn't care about your health, who will?

Outside is not a health risk.

Well not unless it's near a main road with lots of traffic fumes.

I blame the invention of "smoking areas".

YADNBU

YANBU

She was under the fug of smoke though

i would judge that too tbh

YADNBU. I am a few days out of hospital having had DD and every time I went outside (not that often admittedly, but still, every single time) there was this one heavily pregnant Mum stood in the doorway 'avin' a fag.

Judgy-pants firmly on, I'm afraid... Esp as all the other pregnant Mums coming and going had to walk through her fug.

Another judgy pants here as well. My daughter used to have a tracheostomy so going near smokers was a big no-no when she was little. The ENT ward of our local children's hospital was our second home for over three years and the number of children admitted with breathing problems who had parents who smoked made me feel very sad for the children.

I have to admit that I simply cannot understand why they didn't at least try to give it up for the sake of their children's health.

It paints such a damning picture doesn't it.

What a shame she can't just give the damn things up...when I consider how very little cigarette smoke my children have breathed in by not having either parent a smoker, and the fact that smoking in enclosed public places was made illegal before both was born, compared to a child like this, the mind boggles.

I'd never stopped to consider that till just then. I know it sounds smug but its not, its just glad. Both me and DH once smoked so I know the appeal...god I used to love it. And no calories.

I would have judged just for the baby being in the smoking area. I would have judged even more after seeing the inhaler!!!! Disgusting behaviour!

YADNBU she is

Yuck.

YANBU

And onagar, as Pixie says, outside can be just as dangerous for those with breathing problems.

Poor baby

Scum.

YANBU

But on the positive side, it is so uncommon to see this nowadays people are shocked! I think people are becoming more aware of the health risk of smoking around children and it doesn't seem to happen as much as it used to.

And I don't care if I am a judgey pants when it comes to this. If the fear of being judged by the general public stops people doing it then thats a good thing!

at least she was outside! 5 years ago she would have been indoors...

I've seen the culture really changing recently- lots more people outside by their front gates having a fag round my way (except for MIL. Hell will freeze over first- she thinks Outside Smoking is a horrid New Labour plot)