To think this woman was bloomin rude!

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Was shopping earlier with my 7m old. Going around the supermarket, she was in her pram and I was chatting away to her quietly, you know the 'oh shall we have chicken for dinner' or mustn't forget to get something for daddys lunch tomorrow etc. She was smiling away and chatting her 'talk' back. Anyway as every so I passed the same woman who looked at me weird, thought maybe I had something on my face lol, Thought nothing more of it.
Got to the till and she was behind me, thenshe said 'excuse me' I replied 'hi' she said 'why on Earth do you talk to such a young child, its not like they understand ?' in quite a sneery tone.
I said ' because that's how they learn '
She replied ' well of you say so'!
Me. I don't 'say so' I know so...and carried on emptying my basket

Maybe I shouldn't of been sarcastic at the end but she was very rude and made it look like I was being odd. I wasn't eden chatting loudly or anything just general chat to my daughter

She'd hate my conversations with DDog then!!

Ugh. She's a tool. Ignore her and go on your way.

What @highheelsandbobblehats said! I always talk to my DS (now 11 months) in the shops, parks, car - felt like a right wally at first but they definitely learn and he loves a good jibber now I'm not sure the shoppers in Ikea this week agreed with me though 

I talk to DD all the time. She's starting to say the words back though as she's nearly 2

What a bizarre individual.

Let’s just hope she never has kids

I don't know if she's rude... She's pretty stupid though - is the child going to magically learn to talk without hearing language or something?

Other woman sounds a bit of an oddball to approach you to talk to you about it.

How does she think babies learn to talk if nobody talks to them?

I talk to the dog, including asking him questions, she’d hate me!

How sad. I always did the same with my dcs. Maybe she expects you to say 'goo goo gaa gaa'

Jesus Christ... I'm with RangeRider she'd be well fucked off listening to me prattle to my cats

I think the lady should have minded her own business

Sounds like there’s more to this than meets the eye. Maybe she can’t have kids and things like that set her off. Still odd behaviour though 😥

Another one who talks to my dog, she would be appalled. Perfectly normal, and good to your dd that's how they learn.

Batshit. Completely.

I spend most of my day having similar conversations with the dog. He tells me the woman is a cunt 😂

Talk

She's crazy!, of course that's how babies learn.

I talk to my cat, he blinks back at me.

I even do both sides of the conversations with my pets.
I actually think it's odd if I see parents NOT interacting with their children as they're walking along...

Silly woman. Ignore her.

Hells bells, DS is 2.75 and still not talking back (speech delay, possibly due to ASD) but I still rattle onto him. Goodness knows what she'd make of that.

That's beyond rude.

I talk to my cat and say his name until he meows at me and we're having a 'conversation'

Sounds like she has real difficulty with communication herself, perhaps taking everything literally, and therefore finding it hard to see why you'd talk to anyone who couldn't understand what you were saying. If so, she wasn't intending to be rude, even though it sounded rude.

You've reminded me, many years ago, I was walking around a supermarket in Switzerland chatting away to my baby daughter who was sitting in her chair facing me in the shopping trolley, as you do, obviously, and another mother with a baby about the same age saw me and asked: "Oh, are you allowed to do that, then?"

Maybe you weren't as quiet as you thought OP

I think it's nice to see a mum taking to her baby although I do raise my eyebrows to those that give a loud running commentary to their dc, you know the type!

Talking not taking

I've had that when I've been talking to my dog. She said 'you know she can't talk back'

And I said (indignantly in a fake huffy voice) 'Hmph, no it's just you can't understand her!'