to wish that the mother of this child would sit down and do something less noisy and dangerous?

[Iris65]

P is lucky enough to have a performance parent for a mother. They are currently running up and down in the cafe chasing each other, screaming and tickling when caught while she narrates everything at a shout. P also has a dairy sensitivity, gluten sensitivity, peanut allergy, and is vegan. This caused some difficulty when choosing a snack but we are all now fully informed about the hazards and the ethics of choosing a snack in a well known coffee house chain.
P is also gender neutral which we heard all about when a passing elderly women commented on 'her lovely curly hair.' The elderly woman needed a sit down and a cup of tea afterwards while being patted on the arm by sympathetic bystanders.
My heart goes out to whichever poor soul will meet P and Mummy when they go back to school. If they are not homeschooled that is and we can only hope that is the case because there is no doubt they will need one to one attention.
Purple haired parent just glared at me from under her bandana after I glanced up when exploring, running child bumped into my table. Was she 'triggered' by my patriarchal expectations of drinking my coffe undisturbed or was their yin ynaged by my negativity?

Where are you?! Do people like this really exist?!

LOL at Podgorica!!! That didn't even occur. But I do generally try to be city-status-neutral and avoid categorising urban centres in such a negative, patriarchal fashion.

Then P. Hilton's mummy and daddy do not know their classical literature.

Oh very true Fizzy. I hadn't thought of that.

Is it Prague??

Just be glad P's mum left Madrid and Copenhagen with their dad, they are even more boisterous than P and are vegetable intolerant and species neutral.

paxilin

I recall one in the hospital waiting room. Mummy was wearing a drama group hoodie and carrying a book. Child ran riot whilst she occasionally shouted "Come and help mummy rehearse"

P would have fit in wonderfully.

Got to be Paris. These days it's considered a fairly gender neutral name.

Where do I go to watch this kind of human theatre? I want to see kids on scooters indoors too... The people watching in cafes and supermarkets around here is very vanilla...

Child is called Prague, everyone knows that is gender neutral ...

Gawd what a nightmare. Slightly resenting the assumption that child is home-schooled (although you're probably right ) We're not all lentil weaving bandana type parents

Odd hair (check), child in red & green with curly hair not yet cut (check), baby wearing (check), breastfeeding (check). You'd fucking hate me just for exsisting (not vegan or vegetarian, I have no allergies sorry to disappoint with your complaints).
Just then glare long enough to find something you don't like about my parenting.

I obviously do it for no other reason

I'm curiouis to know how lunatic hippy mum responded to the older woman calling her child a girl.

Did she say ''She's not a girl'
Or did she say ''Little P is Gender Neutral''

If it's the second, how bloody confusing for the child

I would have thought a dairy allergy was academic if you were vegan?
(Slightly flippant, I'm aware of contamination before I derail the thread.)

Bloody hell DrH, you could be me apart from evil DC blowing me out with a nursing strike.

For all you doubters out there, these people do exist ! Doing my best sadface. I almost thought you were talking about a kid in my son's class, but he's a 'T' not a P - and is the most spiteful and obnoxious child ever. The mum is exactly as you've described. Every time there's a party with the whole class, if there's an entertainer or anything, there's all of the above performance parenting going on, sort of ACROSS the party itself. If the birthday child's parents announce the cake/happy birthday, then the mum STILL doesn't stop with the craziness with the now almost 7yo kid. We're all there singing happy birthday, and she'll wail out "mummy is the tickle monster...." and chase him through where everybody is standing. Drives everyone up the wall.

Prestatyn ?

DrH, ah I was wondering how long before the 'well I actually TALK to my child, so SORRY for existing' person obligatory on these things showed up.

Do you genuinely not see anything remotely wrong about the behaviour of the woman in the OP? Bugger all to do with breasfeeding, the length of the childs hair or baby wearing (actually, in this case that would be an improvement!) I do wonder about reading comprehension on here sometimes...

"Ooh I hope it's Podgorica."

I was tending towards Vatican City. I did once come across a child in the US called Sheffield.

You're exaggerating much I hope!

Umm, me.

You do know what it means, don't you? Its about not colour coding them. Offering them a range of toys to play with. And choices based on their personality and interests, not on their genitals. Not praising behaviour based solely on gender stereotypes "What a pretty little girl. What a good little girl to sit so nice and quietly" "What a big, brave boy you are not to cry."

I was going to ask if it was little Pristina but that's not gender neutral.

What's wrong with purple hair? Mine is purple at times.

Would you object to somebody, mistakenly or not, calling your child, he or she, them being gender neutral, Barbarian? Just out of interest.