Baby class etiquette

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I go to a few baby sensory classes and the like with my 9 month old. Obviously there is a certain amount of crying and whinging from the kids but how much is too much?

This morning there was a child of around 2 that literally just tantrumed his way through 80% of the class while his mum just watched.

Am I being unreasonable to think she should have made efforts to calm him so everyone else could hear the teacher? Or is she doing the right thing by starving the tantrum of the attention it needs for fuel?

It's difficult to gauge because there could be so many different reasons for the child crying, and none of us know them.

Maybe she's at the end of her rope. Maybe that's just the way she parents. It's hard to know.

YANBU.

I would always take my baby out if he was crying and disturbing a class.

If the teacher thought it was inappropriate it's likely they would have said something. Unfortunately there is a wide development difference between a toddling 2 year old and a just turned one year old baby.

The toddler might just have been expressing his distaste for the class. Or be tired or hungry and unable to articulate any of that. They know they feel wrong but they don't know the words.

That said, as a parent I would initially try to establish what the cause of the tantrum was. But if, once I had done that, it wasn't swiftly resolved, yeah I'd be ignoring them.

I think that if a child is crying and disrupting the class for others, then they should be removed from the class to calm down. It isn't fair on the other paying customers.

Letting a child disrupting someone who is talking is terrible. For few minutes, yeah but all the time, without doing anything?
I would take said child out of the room ASAP and return when all is calm. Terrible twos is one thing but I would be mortified if my child's prolonged tantrum will disrupt something important.

I would have taken my child out of the room if they were like that. It's not fair to ruin it for others and I'd be really conscious of that. She could have been utterly fed up and exhausted by it all and not thinking straight about what to do or she could have been someone that doesn't give a shit about other people

I would have taken him out because it really did ruin the class and I've noticed that once one baby kicks off the others do too! I could see the teacher was looking over but remained ever professional!

YANBU, it drives me insane. Classes are expensive and it's annoying when they are ruined by inconsiderate parents. I don't go to the effort of getting myself and my baby up, ready and out of the house on time, just to listen to someone else's scream for an hour! All babies cry, no one can help it, but you try and settle and join back in and if you can't, you leave the group and come back when you're ready. I've seen teachers say things like 'oh dear are you hungry, do you need a cuddle from mummy?' More to the babies than the adults, I think it would be hard for them to say anything really. To be honest I'd say a 2 year old shouldn't be in a group where activities are aimed at 9 month olds, they usually split them better.

YANBU also I would say a 2 year old is too old for a baby sensory class