to think this was a mean comment to say to my DD?

[LillyRosePetal]

In the supermarket today (this sort of thing always happens in a supermarket haha) and was in line waiting to pay.

DD(almost 2) has a new favourite thing of running around me and finds it hilarious. She wasn't getting in anyones way either otherwise I would have stopped her.

When the woman in front had just paid and turned around and said to her - well you're a noisy little bugger (not in a jokey way) and walked off.

DD wasn't having a tantrum or screaming, which I could understand could be very annoying to some, all she was doing was laughing.

I am prepared to be told I am being unreasonable.

Honestly even on a bad day I'd rather hear all the toddlers laughing than screaming and whinging happy noises trump sad anyday. She was a miserable bat, and should have kept her trap shut.

It's difficult to gauge the level of 'danger' your DD was supposedly causing without having been there. Small amounts of running around = OK; tearing around a la Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes = not OK. But I wouldn't call any kid a 'little bugger' unless I was joking, and even then I'd think twice. YANBU.

Agree with Birdsgottafly! What a pity her happiness couldn't be understood and shared. But also how dare anyone say something as rude as that to a child? If she had an issue she should have addressed you, not the toddler! In situations like these I just tell myself that it is their problem if they are rude old grumpy people, not mine. Enjoy your child, her laughter (and her tantrums!). Kids grow fast enough and she will have time to learn the world is not as wonderful as it seems at two.

This really fuvking annoys me?!!! Alright yes some children are undisciplined and bad mannered; some are noisy and throw tantrums ....but some just make a noise whilst being children. Surely we are past the time when children were to be seen and not heard? I for one love the sound of children playing and laughing!

When my daughter wa around two we got a similar bollocksing at a WI market. In a large space (I'm talking metres and metres around her) she was pinning with her fairy wand that shed just bought. Terribly happy with people looking on and smiling. The wad lady of this WI came over and said to her shhhh! Be still. Then to me said, control your child or give her to someone who can. Everyone, all the adults that had been laughing along with her scurried away chastised and we never went back there again. Some people are just mean spirited.

Kelly, I think in short the excuses boil down to "the person was rude but it's their problem not yours". See the comments below - I don't agree that's what they're saying at all! Hence my first point which you seem to be trying to disprove for whatever reason. YOU may mean what you wrote above but other posters on this thread and many others like it clearly don't.

'She shouldn't have commented but then you shouldn't let your small child run around the supermarket'

'It sounds like the noise was bothering her more than the running. Was she screeching at the time? I know you say she was laughing, but we all know what small DCs can be like, that high pitched laughing can easily become a screech and that is annoying to other people.'

'Maybe she found your little darlings game really irritating. '