To think you don't let your toddler play with noisy electic games on a packed train?

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Or any train for that matter. I was on jam packed train at the weekend (no spare seats, aisle full of people standing up) and one woman was sat with her small child playing with a toy that said 'triangle', 'square' etc when the kid pressed each shape. I was a couple of seats in front & could hear it! AIBU to think this was utterly selfish of the mum? Other people were giving her the evils but she seemed oblivious.

Thank you.

How is a train a 'horrible environment'?

usual You don't see "HTH" as snide? Because I really do.

I'm sure people can suggest toys - but I'm wondering what non-annoying toy you could use to entertain a small child,on a crowded rush hour train. You could read - if your child was sufficiently entertained by that. On a crowded train you couldn't draw,or play with toy cars/whatever. You could sing(!),or play silly pretend games,I would find that more annoying myself.
If you have a child who is old enough to be able just to sit and look out of the window,fair enough (if you could get near enough to the window to see out of it)
You need something portable,sufficiently interesting to hold your childs attention(and so keep her/him quiet),which can be played with while your child sits on your lap,and which doesn't make a noise itself .What?

Yabu.

Mine aren't even allowed electronic games but if it keeps a child entertained during a train journey then it wouldn't bother me. Better they're in one place than dashing around like mine try to do. FWIW I love listening to phone conversations on the train, dead nosey me .

Good, Because I was talking about you.

I have read most of this thread through sporadic yawning - kids are kids, they need entertainment, sometimes they have to be on trains ..... Sorry if it sounds rude, but it is so boring. AND horrible. Do you not have anything better to do with your lives other than bitch about a noisy toy on a train and slag off other posters? It has now descended into some kind of bunfight and most of the regular posters would appear to have lost the will to live (as have I). Shall we call it an end and 'behave nicely?' FFS get a sodding life....

OK usual

LAK11

i've never seen you about before, but i like the cut of your gib

It bothers me but you just have to suck it up providing the noise isn't too loud, that or move carriages. I bloody hate noise on trains and don't care who it's coming from.

I'd say something in a quiet carriage, though.

Not every train is a horrible environment,but the train in the OP - jam packed,no spare seats, aisle full of people standing up,and was 6pm mentioned? - I think that is a horrible enviroment. Hot,smelly,stuffy,not able to move.I didn't like it much as an adult commuter.

Pride, if you are genuinely asking, when my son was a couple of years younger I used to take several little Mr Men books (small enough to fit in my handbag), a little notepad and a couple of crayons (ditto) and a pack of wipe-clean activity cards (again, ditto) - it's called something like "100 things for young children to do on journeys", all of which could be used while he was sitting on my knee on crowded trains. Or, if you want to go electronic, just swtich the damn sound off.

I came on here after reading another thread, and usual yes, some of the posts here are totally gross.

Why are we so anti-kid in the UK. I hate it. Go to Spain, Italy, IME children are embraced, indulged, talked to, encouraged.

It is so dis-heartening to hear some of the attitudes on here. Glossy Yes, you.

nilby I don't think children should be indulged. Talked to, sure. Indulged, no.

I'm not sure why that makes some people so disillusioned and sad. People are allowed different opinions.

Personally it makes me sad that we need to entertain children with noisy toys when other people may be trying to sleep, relax, read, study or work. I have every sympathy with parents whose children are screaming or tantrumming. I just don't have much patience with people who think a train is an appropriate place to use a noisy toy.

How is shoving noisy electronic toys into your kids' hands embracing, indulging, talking to or encouraging them? All it is doing is teaching them to have no regard for people around them in public spaces.

It's horrible, nilby.

Awful nasty mean spirited thread.

Just yuk.

Yes,I was genuinely asking,it is a while since mine were little.Drawing wouldn't have helped with DS.
We always took books,and a few little toys which sometimes worked,sometimes not.I did take an electronic toy which made farm animal noises when I flew with DD (16 months) to visit family in the US - because it was distracting enough to overcome quite a high level of upsetness.Didn't use it on the plane though,only in the airports...

mechanical I've been reading your posts with interest on this and agree with every word. If only the world had more considerate people like us!

Well apparently we're not considerate Southeastdweller apparently we're meanies.

Never mind that I've never once even raised an eyebrow at a noisy child. Never mind that my every journey is made hellish by noise. No, my opinion that people could take others into consideration marks me out as a real piece of work.

mechanical and wallison, IMO, you are both being tres judgemental. Who knows if the toy was "shoved" perhaps the "evil" electronic toy was the last trick to come out of the bag after the crayons, lego, cards, books, puzzle and something wooden and handcrafted had all been exhausted?

We all parent differently, but sure are the sun rises, the world would be a much much nicer place if we extended everyone a little latitude and little bit of patience, and instead of getting our knickers in a bind about "triangle, square" noise pollution.

I think a toy that makes a noise if different from a "noisy" toy. See V-tech.

Children should be a bit indulged. But I can see that that word is loaded with very negative connotations. Listened to, free to choose, supported, permitted, accepted in lots of ways. But I digress.

Better than screaming toddler?

nilby I am not judging anyone. I couldn't give a shite how anyone parents. Point to the part in any of my posts where I'm judging.

All I want is a bit of peace and quiet.

mechanical

You sound like you are spoiling for a fight, so no I wont indulge you there (see how I did that) and leave you to it.

Peace and love, and triangles. Squares. Let us not forget the humble circle. So essential.

We're a rare species, I think...

Good job really....

In Italy on some trains there is even a special little seat for children.