To think that mumsnetters will enjoy this story: anti-establishment 9 year old

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haha

I like how the parents pointed out the cuteness of their children before their intelligence

I like the photo with the pointing. I do like pointing.

Could it not be roped off at least, to distinguish the difference between art and not art for those who might not be able to tell the difference? Not that I believe the parents behaved appropriately at all, I'd be mortified and remove my child instantly if they did that.

The child did behave like a brat though. I see no reason why a supposedly intelligent 9 year old should need it explaining that they don't climb on the exhibits.

I do agree that they probably don't have much in the way of rules but they'll learn this stuff in school even if their parents are crap.

I used to go with my mum to museums. She was 90, this girl is nine.

She sometimes reached out and touched things.

The difference was that I'd embarrassedly hiss at her not to. And she never climbed on anything, but maybe that was her arthritis.

The other difference is that we were charming people and I suspect the Trevor-Bolongaro tribe are insufferable cunts.

Couldn't read the article, for the sick in my mouth.

Urgh.

Wanky cunts

Gallery and parents at fault here.

Gallery fault:-
If it's really worth that much they why not fence it off with a £20 bit of rope? If the art work is on loan then the owner has the right to feel furious it's being so casually displayed in a public area.

Parental fault:-
When your kid cocks up in public, the onus is on you to at least try and appear a little bit apologetic ffs!

Those parents come across as far more entitled and suffering from "worldrevolvesroundmeitis" than any I've seen on the Jeremy Kyle show - not cool!

Ooh, they live close to me.

I'm pretty sure the dad was talking on the Eddie Nestor show and said the paper had it all wrong. The aunt is anti-establishment-not the child- she was taking her around with an uncle. With all fairness to the parents they weren't actually there, the aunt and uncle were looking after them and the dad said himself that the aunt wasn't paying attention for a couple of minutes and told the kid to get down when she did see.

Sounds a bit over hyped on one side from a media pov especially with so much information wrong- parents not being there, saying she shouldn't have been on it, that the aunt lost attention for a minute etc. When I did hear the dad I did think that he was excusing her a bit on 'not knowing' it was an exhibit but from the sounds of thing they've been some pretty vile and shitty trolling done towards them so he's probably a bit defensive. They left there child in the care of family for a trip out, said family didn't pay attention and kid misbehaved. Pretty much a standard parenting story blown way out of proportion.

I am guessing that the vitriol on this thread is due to the fact that the parents didn't apologise for their daughter's behaviour, instead calling her 'anti-establishment'.

I don't think that the actual offence was so bad, but they could have been less bolshy about it.

Wanky shelves. You can buy similar for cheaper from IKEA.

Why you'd want to take a 9 yr old to the Tate in the first place, beats me.

Totally overrated, but then I'm not into wanky art stuff. Shame the rest of my family are though. :-/

Mia
that is interesting - always good to stop and hear the real story.

Social Media is good at picking up stories like this and running with them.

Oh god class war ya bastards

Oh mia4, damn you and your reasonableness

IN fairness if you build a big ladder, you can't be surprised when a kid tries to climb on it. Not the child's fault that her parents are so incredibly shit at parenting discipline.

Here's a thing though - regardless of whether the story is true or not, or how much the artwork cost - I wouldn't let my 9yr old climb on an Ikea LACK shelving unit. It is a matter of respect towards the belongings of other people.

^wot she said^^ (MmeLindor).

I've always secretly despised parents who let their kids jump all over other people's sofa's like it's some demonstration of their little darling's "creativity".

Common as muck is me .

bochead
I don't even let the DC walk along garden walls. I find it very rude.

I'm not excusing lax parenting, but I do agree with the other poster who said that it's hard for kids to know when something is for touching and when not when places are trying to be family friendly and the precious stuff really doesn't look much different (from a childs perspective) to something that isn't.
Sculpture especially often has an amazingly tactile quality to it - even though I know I shouldn't (and I don't) touch it, I often feel as if I would like to!

MmeLindor It was interesting, the host sounded pretty surprised and kept asking him about the things that had been said in the paper.

limitedperiodonly I feel completely evil for it :)

Only read a couple of pages of this thread as I reaalllly need to go to bed (just clocked the time and read the original article.
As a mum to two small people who are OBSESSED with climbing up, on, and around everything I can safely say these two parents are IDIOTS.
There's a time and a place for everything. Climbing art sculptures isn't one of them. Take them to your nearest park, or soft play FFS.
Sounds like the parents wan their 15 minutes of fame in the media to me.