to thin this story only made the news becasue mum takes a glam photo?

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It's sweet, but a bit of a non-story and probably something of a stealth boast

I knew what this was going to be as soon as I saw the title of your post. Totally agree op!

You old cynic you, I think that's a really positive upbeat story. I feel all warm and fuzzy reading it.

Well done finding something bad in such a nice story.

Aww I think that is a lovely story!

YANBU. It is sweet, but I was a bit when they were appealing for the note writer to come forward this morning on TV. Bloody hell, a client wrote me a nice note regarding some work I did last week and said I was a "lovely young lady". Shall I calm the BBC? Lovely, and a really sweet little boy, but newsworthy? No.

Oh please I had someone comment on how well behaved dd is when I was 21. Can I get an article? . Jokes aside it was lovely for a stranger to do this and her son looks very happy

Her foundation is too orange and about 3 shades too dark.

Cute kid though.

Slow news day, I think. Boring.

You've got to give her credit for doing the best stealth boast ever.

What with this and the party invoice story, I'm starting to wonder if journalists are trawling netmums instead of Mumsnet these days...

I thought the same thing. Some boorish old fart thinks a child's behaviour matches up to how he thinks a child should act and leaves a creepy note. I doubt he would have been as impressed with the mum's parenting skills if she had looked like the back of a bus.

Also - a fiver? What the fuck's that about?

Her foundation is too orange and about 3 shades too dark.

Wow, what a totally unnecessary and bitchy comment.

Fuck it , I am going to write myself a note about how wonderful I am and tell DH it was left on the car

I am proud to live in Plymouth with all the notes and invoices making the headlines :)

FFS! How about we don't reduce a woman down to what she looks like! If this was a father, I doubt there's be a thread saying that it's only a story because he's attractive.

It's actually lovely to see a positive story about a young mother instead of the daily tide of hatred.

the fiver was because a stranger once left a fiver for his daughter - he was paying if forward.

Someone did leave a note on my car one time. Sadly it said LEARN TO PARK.

If an older lady left a note like this with a father on the train, would we critique his appearance suggesting he only got the note because he was glam or then slagging off his appearance. This thread is pretty sad

Check her handwriting, bet she wrote it to herself! ??

X post Lovely but same thought

An old lady gave my kids a quid each the other day because dd had made her laugh and ds had been very patient and kind with his horror of a sister!

Not really sure why this is newsworthy. It's nice but I don't think it is so far out of the ordinary.

What a non-story. It could have been a bit newsworthy if it was £500, or something.

Otoh i see loads of parents on the bus in the morning who don't put their little one on their lap leaving people standing. There is a woman I see regularly who has two small children and bags and they take up four seats. I once asked if I could sit on the bag chair and she acted as if I'd asked for a kidney.

If it's true it's ridiculous and just demonstrates how LCD we are with our news stories. Next, she'll be on celebrity big brother. I might put a bet on it at William hill.

How did he know she wad teaching him good manners as the boy was asleep?

This was in the local rags website earlier, no surprise the Beeb grabbed it. A bit happier than the shit that has been in the local paper.

I'm regularly praised for my DCs impeccable manners and behaviour if only they knew

I took the op to be a comment on how our media only values stories with young and good looking women, not a criticism of the woman herself.