To be cringe every time someone

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says something loud to their off spring so that everyone around can hear and then look for reactions from the nearby people.

"Oh! Johnny how clever of you to know that the green man means you should walk across the road" cue smug expression to anyone near enough, and waits for reaction.

:)

I've only had one glass of wine. I need two before I stop being snappy.

Tizzy

Fair enough

Cheers

What's up Tizzy?

ha! Loud parenting/PP whatever you want to call it, we were out for lunch today, 4 adults & 4 children, having a lovely time together, chatting away and laughing. A family near us did VERY LOUD parenting and it was driving me crazy!

The kids screamed and were VERY NOISY and the parents were even louder. It was awful. My friends husband was sitting next to me and he saw the look on my face and burst out laughing. My friend was on the other side of me and knew exactly why I was bristling. Its just not on. I swear the people on the other side of the bar could hear them!

I know...I can feel myself being annoying now.

My D mother taught DD a lot of French songs when she was small, pre school taught her hymns.
She would sing Kumbayah (to name one) and French nursery songs when out and about. It was awful :o! Made me look like a proper nutter real PP :(

My DS has speech problems and when he was about 2.5 I took him for a day out to a museum, but as I was desperately trying to encourage his speech I was reading things out to him whilst carrying him and a man walked past with a smirk on his face

He obviously thought I was doing it to show off and PP, I was so embarrassed that I stopped and still cringe when I think about it, the museum was fairly busy so he probably wasn't the only one that thought that.

We were on a camping holiday in Normandy once, and our tent was directly opposite that of another family with small children. The father was the loudest parent I have ever encountered. His deep, booming voice will probably haunt me for years. It was all "Yes, Jeremy... Good boy, Jeremy... Ah, that's it Jeremy! Etc" quite literally a non-stop running observational monologue about the three year old Jeremy's every move. Any remark the little boy chanced to make would also be reiterated approvingly "that's right, Jeremy, that is indeed a Renault Espace, well spotted!" I remember hearing him emerge from the rent one morning and pronounce, "Right, Jeremy, today we'll be taking you to see the Bayeux tapestry, let me tell you something about it." There was a little girl, too, a couple of years older, but she appeared to pass largely unnoticed. It was all about Jeremy.

Lol at Jeremy

Poor fucker, being called Jeremy!

Maybe his dad was trying to make up for giving him an awful name by making him the centre of attention

Thank you everlong

He does sometimes follow it up with 'can I be a fireman first though?'

Bless him

LOL @ SockPuppet

Was in a shop yesterday and woman thinking my child was probably about the same age as hers asked her son to spell 'flower'. Unfortunately due to her accent the child spelt it as 'flowa', I had to really stifle my laugh as my daughter ( who is a lot younger than she looks due to height and mass of hair) tried to correct his spelling. Silly cahh!

Oh God, we had to endure one of these in WHSmith the other day, she spent a long time PPing a boy about 18 months so that everyone felt embarrassed for the poor child then it got worse because she started Loud Wifery too
'DH did you buy some socks?'
Man 'mmmmm' (cringe)
Woman 'were they good socks?'
Man 'they were just socks' walks away

Dd1 and I couldn't contain our sniggers

I look after a child with autism and speech delay. I am guilty of the looking round for approval, isn't he wonderful bit when he does something simple like pressing the button for the green man

And the PP as well

I must drive people mad but, honestly, it is such an achievement that you want everyone to share.

My son does performance off-springing. A couple of days ago he got offered a bit of easter egg by another little boy - "I can't have that, I haven't had my 5 a day" - I felt the need to point out that I'm sure it must be school drumming that into him (and in his defence he's not really that into chocolate - gave half his Easter goodies to us).

Tanith, I totally know what you're referring to, my DS has autism too (hence the speech problems ) and I give him so much over the top praise when he calls a girl 'she', as he always struggles with his pronouns and calls everyone he or him, I wonder what people must think as he's 5 so it's not like I'm praising a little toddler!

DadisSad, my DS2 does things like that, especially when his brother is being naughty. he turns into Perfect Peter.

I do it sometimes, but never intentionally, and never look around to gauge the reaction of strangers. If anything, I cringe when I hear the words coming out of my mouth and avoid making eye contact with anyone.

In a National Trust property kitchen when the volunteer in costume was about to explain the uses of various olden days kitchen equipment last week: "Sweetheart, you know what that is for. The lady doesn't need to tell you. Come on, what is it?"

I'm just like Jeremy's dad