to think that......

[MamaBear17]

When a little baby or a toddler smiles at a stranger in the street they should smile back? I took my DD out in her trike pushchair thing earlier and she was smiling and chatting to everyone she saw. A few people smiled back and even said hello, but I was shocked at the amount of miserable gits who kept a stony face and didnt even acknowledge her. One woman actually glared at me!! A smile costs nothing, surely?!

I don't like sitting on a bus when a woman and toddler embark and sit in front of me. The child then kneels on its sat and spends thejourney staring at me. I have my own thoughts and don't want to have to look at a child with a runny nose. And its shoes should not be on the seat-.

*kneels on its seat.

I generally smile at children if they smile at me. But it will depend a bit on whether it's an 'AIBU to shield my PFB from the creepy woman who smiled at her on the Tube?' week, or an 'AIBU to think that joyless people who ignore children should be made to live in a gulag?' one.

If you would ignore an adult that smiled at you or greeted you with a 'Good Morning' then it's not surprising you would ignore a child.

But if you would acknowledge an adult then it's rude to ignore the child.

And honestly - how much does a smile and hello cost?

Wow. I couldn't fit the whole first sentence in the title so that is why I titled it as I did. When I posted I was musing rather than complaining really but I think I have misjudged my audience here. I'll stick to posting about mum stuff in future.

Why do you think I notice the child? Children sit in buggies and chatter and make noise and look around. I get on with what I am doing without paying attention to every child and where it is looking when it chatters away, or what it is saying.

Correction ^ I didnt think I could fit the whole first sentence in the title. Im fairly new to this forum and on the last one you couldnt write much.

NannyOgg - exactly my thoughts

When a child smiles at me, I usually smile back. But I don't expect everybody to do the same.
When someone doesn't smile back at DS, I don't think they're miserable gits, I think maybe they are not feeling well today, or they didn't notice, or they just don't like kids that much. And that's fair enough!
So I can't understand why it would bother you, really. YABU.