To think if there's a time for performance parenting this wasn't it?

[ilovesooty]

Earlier today. On a shuttle bus going from the airport terminal to the plane. We were crammed in to the extent our noses were almost in each others' armpits. A couple got on with a toddler in a buggy. He immediately wanted to get out so they let him. He used my legs to pull himself upright. His father picked him up. Then both parents began very loudly "Where are we going? On an Aeroplane! Who's taking us? The pilot! How many aeroplanes can you see? Aren't you clever to count to eleven? Now shall we sing the song about holidays you learned at nursery?"

And they did.

WiBU to hope they would shut up once on the plane?

Disclaimer - lighthearted - it only annoyed me for five minutes of my life.

I think we met these 2 on holiday in France last year.

We joined in with the singing... they looked deeply unimpressed at us stealing their thunder.

Daft bats.

If I was on the shuttle bus and also had a 3 year old I would have started some PP of my own and there would have been a 'PP off'.

It's the singing.

Why is there a need to sing?

At a restaurant with family many moons ago. The children were quite happy with colouring and suchlike. Why did their mother decide that a rendition of Wheels on the Bus was necessary?

YY 'WE KNOW A SONG ABOUT THAT DON'T WE?'

Child-

The child always ruins the pp when they talk.

"Oh look Johnny that lady is buying Olives"
Child -
"We don't have any, shall we have some? You love grown up food. So clever aren't you with your big boy tastes"
Child "wahhhhhh"
"What's the matter? Don't worry that lady hasn't taken all of them. We'll get some for dinner"
Child - more sobs and wails
"You said McDonald's"

Exactly- it stops once the child talks- they are so unreliable! When the pp parent can talk and answer they are safe!

Chatting to their child rather than ignoring them. God airports are boring, of course you make conversation with your child. I hate these threads but I've come to assume any mnetter who has met me in rl would judge me to be a performance parent - anything to stop twins having a tantrum even if that includes singing.

We weren't in the airport. We were on a crammed terminal bus on a journey lasting five minutes or less. It was a small airport and unlikely they'd been hanging about for hours. He didn't look remotely like having a tantrum ether.
And it wasn't just chatting or making conversation. It was loud.

I've done worse. Between flights I've chased my toddler down for tickles while she was screaming her head off and laughing hysterically. No regrets. She slept the whole connecting flight.

This kind of stuff absolutely does not bother me. I just see parents delighting in their children. I am certain I have done it a thousand times; to cheer them up, jolly them along, alleviate the tedium of queuing, travelling or whatever. And totally Yes! to singing. About anything. To the tune of some other song. With feeling

I haven't seen any PP for ages.

I need to hang about in the library more, that's usually a good place to spot it.

I'm with you sooty. I can't get past the fact that he asked to get out of the buggy and they let him . Presumably they had to strap him back in 2 minutes later when the shuttle bus stopped.
If I'd been you, I'd have been torn between loud tutting when the toddler who should have been kept in the buggy was using my legs to help stand up or an even louder FFS when the parents started acting like dicks. There's never a time for pp, imo, but on a crowded shuttle bus full of tired, stressed out travellers? He'll, no.