To think I’m sat on a train opposite the twattist mum ever!!!

[Pumkinfailure]

Child is 3
Mum very loudly asking her to explain the elements that make up nitrous oxide. Child looks blank. ‘Come along darling, you know your elements. Ox.......ox....y......gen! Well done darling.’ 3 year old still hasn’t spoken.
Now darling let’s do some reading, shall we read lord of the rlord nhs, you do love that don’t you’
Would you like a coconut and peanut raw ball, we don’t want to eat too much because remember darling bed time is 6.30 after cuddles.
We are now doing maths, 44-13? Loudly.
I’ve been on this train 7 minutes. God help me!!!?

Omg, I can let an awful lot of irritating public behaviour wash over me because I am very chilled, but performance parenting is something that just gives me the fucking rage. Stupid, pretentious, awful, jumped up twats who do it.

@pinkcarpet

She was so posh though she almost had me believing it. I waited till the end of the journey to explain to my completely disinterested toddler. maybe Glasgow would like to be the capital city but a posh English women shouldn’t be the one to start that fight.

I must be living in an other universe.

@foldingtable indeed!

You should have started answering the questions and then said 'oh, was that not directed at me? It's just that you were basically shouting it at me so I though it was my turn now.'

Surely nitrous oxide just does what it says on the tin?
It contains nitogen and oxygen.

Try reciting loudly
"Farmer Brown is dead and gone,
alas he is no more
for what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4"
The child might stand a better chance of actually remembering it!

mine's been into the periodic table since she was 6. (seems it might be something to do with her autistic speical interest. ?) not that I could ask her what is in various chemicals, as I do not have a fecking clue. much like I do not know how to get endereyes, nor craft various potions in minecraft depsite being monologued at.

This upsets me. A parent engages positively with a young child, and someone starts a thread making fun of them, and a whole bunch of strangers pile in.

I don't teach my kids much when I'm out and about. I'm shy, and I don't want to be laughed at by people like you. My DH on the other hand never stops. He isn't doing it because he wants people to notice. He isn't performance parenting. He does the same thing when there is no one there to see. The kids love it, and soak information like little sponges. Would it be better if he sat in silence staring at his phone will they watched cartoons on an ipad?

Would it be better if he sat in silence staring at his phone will they watched cartoons on an ipad?

Yes, but headphones for the iPad please.

But it wasn't positive. The child was being talked at about things that most probably didn't interest them at all.

What's wrong with playing a quiet game or talking about what you can see out of the window?

The woman in the train reminds me of Catherine Tate- Posh Mum! Watch on You Tube " Gooseberry and Cinnamon Yogurt" There's a few of them on there- just hilarious and so true !

Hedgehog that's priceless, best laugh I've had in ages.

She'll get her comeuppance. Her teenage children will have her for breakfast. She's deader than dead. Silly silly woman.

MrsWhirly please don't its bad enough trying to find one that's working -missing point-

Teach the kid to swear

@bleary i engage with my son too.....just not loudly ....on a train. And my son will be eating a bag of monster munch coz I like it too

can all that happen in 7minutes.

That poor 3-year old. Mum has got issues.

I’ve heard parent and child (approx 10) talking politics. Made me a bit sick in my mouth. Poor kid!

Whenever there's a thread about crazy over-the-top parenting, someone always seems to come on and ridicule some perfectly reasonable, age-appropriate way of engaging with your child, which has nothing to do with performance parenting whatsoever. Sick in your mouth to hear a pre-teen talking about politics with their parent, wtf?! If you haven't ever talked to your 5-10yo about politics in any shape or form, then I'd say 'poor kid' right back at you. Most kids want to learn about the world, and it's bonkers reverse snobbery to think that discussing difficult subjects with them in an age-appropriate way is somehow by definition 'performance parenting'.

Why not just put some headphones on OP, rather than gawking, eavesdropping and judging. Only egomaniacs think that the world is performing for their benefit. I couldn't give a shiny shite what people think of my conversations with my kids. Same applies to all patents I know.

I'm dying! Such a shame you couldn't live feed, I needed some entertainment.

Poor child.

This upsets me. A parent engages positively with a young child, and someone starts a thread making fun of them, and a whole bunch of strangers pile in.

Except mum is not engaging with child, mum is forcing child so that she can bask in reflected glory. Sit with child, hug child, look through a book with child, answer child's questions. That is 'engaging' with child,

Raw balls are actually really nice. That's all I came on to say.

I agree, the parent isn't engaging in the least, she's much more interested in the reaction she hopes she is getting from the other adults around.