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!

[Shroomer]

Just a thought, don't men talk in loud voices to their children too? Or is that not as annoying because they have penises?

[Animation]

"I think this is the kind of thing that people mean, rather than just peole speaking nicely and clearly to their child."

Exactly - that's what I thought this thread was about!

[SnuffleTurtle153]

OFGS shroomer, barrel scraping reaches new lows....

[MmeLindor.]

Psammead
You reminded me of a German father, holding his totally uninterested son up over the top of a sportscar engine pointing out the engine parts, "Look, those are the cylinders, and the pistons move up and down in the cylinders, some cars have lots of cylinders, this one has 8 cylinders ...". The boy was about 3yo and wriggling to get down.

Poor child looked like he would rather be sitting on a bobbycar whizzing around the place than have it all so meticulously explained.

[Georgimama]

The point is one person's talking nicely and clearly is another's pretentious nitwit. It's in the perception of the listener.

[SnuffleTurtle153]

Ooooooh apparently we can all agree on something!

I disagree justabout. What if that man has MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES? Can you tell? Well can you?

No? Then how dare you call him rude and overbearing and passive-aggressive insulting!

Definitely off now.

[DontCallMePeanut]

Agree with Georgimama. Thoroughly.

[freemilly]

oh dear, I cringe when I think of myself last week. My DD almost 3, had ran ahead of me while I was pushing DS in the pram. she was getting over excited and i was scared she would run onto the road. my first response was to scream, STOP PISSING ABOUT. Okay, not one of my proudest moments but I was reacting to a morning of it and needed her attention. If anyone had heard me though, the judgement would have weighed heavy on my shoulders...

[silverfrog]

the hting with having to overexpalin every little thing about your life, is that your life gets judged.

so yes, I had to spell out to the whole POst Office that my MIL has a title.

and I have to spell out to the whole supermarket that I buy organic produce. or fairtrade. or not Haribo.

and I have children with nice middle class names, who are often wearing Boden clothes, and I shop in Waitrose.

so shoot me.

But my conversations usually run along the lines of "no, not those bananas, the organic ones"

or "no, you can't have haribo. yes, I know they are sweets. yes, sweets are nice and yummy. how about a "

or "no, we can't have those yoghurts; yes, we do need milk, but no we cant get it here. yes, buffalo milk - that;s right, clever girl. no, we don't have cow's milk at home. yes, I know Mrs X has cow's milk at school."

etc etc ad nauseam.

that is just our life. I prefer to buy organic. and I can't buy most sweets/cake/choc/treats as dds are multiple intolerant.

and I have a MIL with a title.

[5DollarShake]

@ Snuffle

My prediction of how this thread would run has proved to be pretty much bang on.

[Northernlurker]

Funny thing is in 13 years of parenting I have never met any parent who I consider was 'doing it for effect'. I'm struggling to believe that the op etc go through life continually encountering show offs. I think they are meeting parents who are speaking to their children.
Btw OP - telling Fearne to tone it down when she has said what her aims are? That's really dim.

[Animation]

"And you were in the post office, were you, Animation? Whilst this lady was being so grandiose. How do you know the poster didn't have her own conception that this lady was being grandiose when she wasn't, and amplified it in this post..."

Don'tCallMePeanut.

...Why would the mum in the post office very loudly tell the child that grandma had to be addressed as "LADY" not MRS?

How would that sit with you?

Possibility of grandiosity?

[5DollarShake]

Nobody is judging the child, FGS..............

[DontCallMePeanut]

See Silverfrog's post, Animation... I wasn't in the post office, I can't judge. But then, neither were you.

[fearnelinen]

...Why would the mum in the post office very loudly tell the child that grandma had to be addressed as "LADY" not MRS?


Ummm....perhaps she didn't want DD to think you write Mrs...L A D Y ?

[Animation]

"Psammead's story is about a man being really offensive, actually. Rude and overbearing and passive-aggressive insulting. We can all agree that's horrible"

But how do you know the difference - how do you know - how do you know - answer the question - answer the question?

[SnuffleTurtle153]

I can't stay away. I'm too annoyed.

justabout you are hugely inconsistent. Your only response to me pointing out that you are guilty of exactly what you're berating other for was 'ROFL'. I could just talk about how hugely irritating and ignorant I find text speak, but that's besides the point. You made some unpleasant remarks about the behaviour of a man who you do not know in a situation at which you were not present. It was pointed out to you that that man may have mental health issues; that his behaviour may have been beyond his control, and that by making a judgement about him you are guilty of exactly what you are having a go at everyone else for. And ROFL was your only response.

I don't mean to keep pushing the point. But, you know, 'if you don't challenge threads like this then people are enabled to be rude in public.'

Ppppppfffffffffft!

[silverfrog]