To wish some parents would show a bit more consideration to others

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On a train with a splitting headache after work. There's a family nearby and the child is watching a cartoon on an ipad. Not an issue as such but the ipad is at full volume and no headphones are being used. I know that it must be nice for the kid to be occupied for are while but it's a full train of other people. Surely it would be considerate to use headphones/keep the volume low?

I would hate that OP. Have been there myself. Hope you feel better.

Say something! I wouldn't be able to stop myself.

Incredibly inconsiderate of them.

Mention politely that you have a migraine and would they mind turning it down just a little bit. If they kick off have at them.

Eurgh. Yes, that's simple courtesy.

Hope you get some peace soon.

I agree. Headphones or silent/very low is the rule here when in public.

I'm too old to tolerate this crap. I'd very politely ask if they'd mind turning it down.

I always have the headphones with me for DS. I suffer from migraines regularly and I wouldn't want that either.

Hope your stop isn't too far away or they get off before you

Oh god no I hate this. It makes me murderous! Twats.

Some kid was watching episode after episode of Peppa Frickin Pig in Cafe Rouge last week, I refused to even be seated and walked right back out and said why in earshot of the parents. It's a new level of entitlement. Just give your child a pair of fucking headphones. It's not hard.

Yanbu at all. I regularly entertain my 3yo DS with the cbeebies storytime app on my phone on long journeys but always use headphones or read it quietly myself to him.

An iPad at full volume on a busy train is incredibly rude.

It's incredibly rude & entitled & selfish.

Oh someone will be along soon to say that their special snowflake can't cope with headphones and therefore must have the volume turned up.

No no no.

HEADPHONES.

If your child really really hates them and can't get to like them, then give them a book to read/colour in depending on age bracket.

Did the guard come through the train? I'd ask him/her to have a word.

I had this situation in a cafe recently with a grandfather and his granddaughter watching Peppa pig loudly. I asked politely if he would turn it down. He refused and asked why. I told him I found the volume antisocial. He told me I was being antisocial for asking! He was quite aggressive really. Headphones should be mandatory in public places but some people are just dicks.

Why is it always peppa pig? On a train is bad enough but I was at a wedding I was at in the summer where a couple let their toddler play a peppa game on a phone with the sound on, so the sound of the plinky plonky theme tune was faintly audible throughout the wedding vows. Selfish bastards.

When mine watch the tablet they're watching the same few episodes over and over so they don't need the sound on at all, let alone loud.

Geillis Don't worry. The Peppa Pig phase soon disappears. DS is currently obsessed with DanTDM (who is rather cool admittedly). I still don't expect everyone to like him as much as DS does and that's why he has the headphones. I always make him turn the headphone volume down too. As I'm partially deaf myself. What is normal to me, could be equally loud to others. I just think its common courtesy to do so.

I'm off the train now - thankfully! I would have perhaps asked them to turn it down a bit, but it was a busy train so I wasn't close enough to have a word with raising my voice, which might have seemed a bit aggressive. Shows how loud it was that I could hear every word despite people in between us!
Oh and it wasn't Peppa pig - it was bloody Thomas the tank engine!

Ugh YANBU, how can people be that dense that they think having devices turned up like that is ok?

Yanbu but I have a sn dd and she listens to her iPad sometimes, she won't wear earphones etc.

I don't use public transport ever for various reason but you don't know all circumstances.

My dd wants to have the sound up loud, no headphones and the alternative is a massive meltdown.

Just saying, hope your migraine goes soon

YANBU. It's never acceptable to do that in an enclosed public space without headphones.

But this thread will soon degenerate into a "disablism" row.

I am not trying to start a row I'm just saying, I don't use public transport because I don't want to upset people with my very loud sn dd.

But that mum might not have had a choice, would you rather a screaming child or a programme?

Ivechanged was giving an example of why her DD can't wear headphones, Richard. She was hardly being argumentative.

That was pretty rude.

YANBU. I don't want to listen to is so why anyone else would is beyond me!

I bought my kids headphones (which they promptly broke ) and they can watch with no sound if necessary.

I wasn't talking to Ivechanged - sorry Ivechanged, I can see it looked that way.

There was another thread like this just a month (or less?) ago and it quickly turned into a thread about disablism. So did the one before that... hence my post.

This happened to me at the hairdressers on Saturday.

Mother comes in with her two DDS, probably 6 and 8 who both start playing some irritating game on her phone.

I asked her if she could turn the sound off very nicely and she spent the next hour shooting me daggers.

It's the only time I get a few hours to do nothing but read magazines and drink tea and I'm fucked if I'm going to spend that time being driven to distraction by a computer game.