dad left little girl in resturant

[orangehead]

recently eating out in pub/resturant, table next to me a guy with son about 2 and little girl in high chair about 10 months roughly. boy declared he neede loo and started to pull down pants so dad dashed him to loo and left girl. BTW loo on opposite side of pub and around two corners the dad was gone at least 5 mins the whole time the little girl was screaming obviously thought she had been left. I do understand difficult situation, I also have small age gap with my kids and had many similar situations where wished either someone else was there or I could just deal with the one child at time but not been possible so just dashed the 2 out. Anyway me and my dp were horrifed this guy left the girl. What do u think?

I am deeply honoured. It is a great sadness to me that I was not born Scottish and have no scottish ancestry. (Believe me I've looked ong and hard) LOVE THE PLACE!

well, you have a fiddle. that is a Good Start.
now all you need is bad teeth and some chronic lung disease and you'll be well away....

PRECISELY malory

Ugh no! Watching yer own kids is bad enough without having to keep an eye on some screaming little brat.

The boy should have headed for the nearest pot plant.

You ought to start charging 'em then.

Send your dd round with a hat.

Shared a flat with a bonnie wee lassie whilst at music college and her lungs were fine and she had beautiful teeth.

eh? You on the weed are you? Can I have some please?

Just generally "shoogly"

Hmm, I had one of those not long ago, I call them "quibblies". I'm more mellow today, long may it last!

Aitch understands me. She's Scottish.

I find it utterly bizarre that you didn't comfort the girl

I don't. Usually if you go near a strange, screaming child they scream even more and then the restaurant stops and looks at you accusingly as if you've done something.

A "shoogle" might have helped. It couldn't have made things any worse. Sod what people in restaurant might think!

nonsense, the child was screaming its head off for five minutes. by one minute in the people in the room would have been desperate for someone to try to distract the bub with some poiinting out of the window etc. or even gone down to the loos to find the dad. sounds like a roomful of sociopaths, tbh, if no-one tried. was there a conference on?

Or stuff it's mouth with ice-cream. You could have done that I suppose.

I feel for this Dad. It reminds me of the time I had a dd1 (toddler) and dd2 (baby) on a railway platform, waiting to meet dh off a train, when dd1 said she wanted the toilet, but unfortunately made huge puddle before the words were even out of her mouth.

Toilet-training: that's the worst bit.

yes leave the poor bloke alone, he was doing the same as i would do, struggling!

dont berate him because he is a man

Stuffing with ice-cream could be tricky. With my luck the kid would prove to be lactose intolerant and I'd be sued! I think I'd have just done my best "playschool presenter" impression to try and keep her amused

It's very simple. You walk across to crying child, you pick said child up and - unless it breaks into redoubled wailings - give it a shoogle (I like that word). You stay rooted to spot in case strange people with clearly overly developed abilities to See Bad In Everyone think you are about to flee the room with said child (although the fact that you have your own kids in tow makes it slightly unlikely that you could make a speedy getaway, tbh, does it not). Continue to shoogle till father returns. If he gets the hump, point out crisply to him that his daughter's been crying - but frankly he's more likely to weep with gratitude and buy you an ice cream all of your very own.

Jeeezus. And I'm a bad person.