To want to throttle women who talk their kids in REALLY LOUD VOICES

[bbird1]

in public for no apparent reason. It's just bloody annoying. Just pipe down ffs!

"she parented loudly all the way there, constantly stimulating"

Yes. constantly stimulating the child REALLY concerns me as well. When can the child ever switch off and just look around!

Do parents who parent loudly do it because it is the only time they do parent them? Just a thought.

Sometimes I am sure I am guilty of it - particularly when my neighbour is around as I feel she is constantly watching me parent.

we have a shouty show off in the playground HAHAHAing at her AMAZING charges, COO COO COOING at the dads who do pick ups
Her kids don't have SEN, she is a vapid cow just likes to be the centre of attention

I do this unwittingly sometimes. i have a hell of a loud voice and am used to just talking (teacher).

My good friend does this but not for an audience it's just the way she speaks to her dc's.
I was walking up the path to her house and could hear her before I got to the door.
I think she is oblivious to it as she does it everywhere.

Agreed, smallwhitecat. No one has answered that yet, or my point about parents with mild disabilities, or conditions like dyspraxia and bipolar disorder. I'd be very easily confused for a shouty show-off mum at times, by people who don't know me. I know it happens, as I get confused for a shouty show-off student on occassion.

But yeah... that's not been acknowledged...

Oh for goodness sakes smallwhitecat - we're not talking about parents who are GENUINELY needing to talk in a louder voice to make themselves understood. That's NOT what this thread is about.

And don't be rude calling people "wankers" - that's up with you?

If you are going to do this, at least get your facts right.

Mummy to small child in the MGM hotel in Vegas (looking at a lion and lioness) "look honey, there is the lion, he is the one with a lot of hair on his head, and next to him is a tiger"...

Sometimes you have to take the moment. Albeit in a quiet voice.

If my son asks me why the sky is blue, I camt say "teel you on the quiet later", I need to explain then and there (whilst whispering I guess). He wont be interested later.

perhaps i should use preview more

squeaky I had to sit next to a women loudly explaining that sydney was the capital of australia once

But, animation, how can you tell just from looking at someone who GENUINELY needs to talk in a louder voice? And you can't always tell by someone's pitch.

Love how judgy people are on here. I have far more of an issue with parents who ignore their kids and then wonder why they've had a tantrum in the supermarket.

dd is 3 and I say all kinds of nonsense to keep her going when doing a big shop.

Oh, thats me you're talking about. Eg " dd1, we need to get some bananas. Yes. Bananas. In the purple packet. Yes, the one that says Fairtrade"

Or: "right, let's find some houmous. Yes that one, with "organic" on it. Yes, O for organic" etc.

Poncy, much? Or giving dd1 the cues to recognise which products we buy? (she recognises whole words when reading, so knows Fairtrade and organic. We need to buy the organic houmous as it is also dairy free.) But I expect that I am judged regularly for loud parenting, when what I am doing is shopping, with my severely disabled daughter who would like to help. And I am just doing the best I bloody can.

I'm actually laughing out loud at the Lady Marchmaine one!

I'm talking about the kind of scenario whereby a mother (and father) swagger into a cafe talking loudly to each other and to the child - making themselves the centre of attention - where the child gets NO personal space whatsoever and is constantly talked AT. It's not hard to spot parents like this. It's like everyone Has to listen to the parents' running commentary.

I'm NOT talking about parents who have children with a disability. I think you CAN tell the difference.

Justabout - well I can on the whole tell the difference between an adult who is showing off and an adult who is authentically attending to their child.

Oh, been there wrt the Post Office issue too.

Sending a birthday present to my MIL. Dd2 very interested in the while process - how does the present get from here to Grandma, how do they know where Grandma lives etc.

So, went through the whole thing - we wrap it up, write address etc etc. Dd2 pipes up (pointing at parcel) "so we write Grandma on it here" and I see where this us heading but have to continue - "no, we write Gandmas name on it,see? (still hoping to fudge the issue) there - it says "MILsurname".

Oh says dd2, it says grandma surname - does this say grandma, mummy?

And I have to point out that no, it doesn't. It says Lady. and then go through the whole explanation of why etc - I only wanted to send a bloody parcel