To moan about kids watching clips on their phone without headphones

[TeenLifeMum]

When did it become acceptable for dc to sit on a train watching TikTok on full volume? I was patient to a point but after 40 minutes I cracked. My glares weren’t working. Dc looks about 10. I leaned over and asked her to turn it down please. The mum glared and said why… I said “usually people use headphones” and the mum looked blankly and replied “yeah we didn’t bring any though 🤷🏻‍♀️”. I rolled my eyes and said “it’s just so bloody rude” and now she’s loudly going on and on about the sweary rude lady (me) and how I should be grateful dc isn’t screaming.

I’m on this train for 3 hours after a long day. Is it too much to expect a parent to parent their dc? I wouldn’t dream of being so inconsiderate.

I have been tempted to play something out loud over someone else playing something out loud just to highlight how antisocial it is.

I don't get it all I'd be embarrassed for everyone to hear what I'm watching. Good for you OP.

It's not just kids, it's people of all ages.

Dh and I often say to people 'Can you use headphones please?' And it's notable how often it turns out they do have a set but they were seeing if they could get away without it. One women did snap at dh 'I was only watching one thing!' But obviously we didn't know that she wasn't planning on sitting there the whole journey with it on.

But next time someone ignores me or him on that I think I might just start singing some opera and seeing how they like that.

I had a friend who years ago, when this first started to be a thing, start reading her newspaper out loud 😄The guy with his sound on asked her what she was doing and she said ‘isn’t it annoying when you’re forced to listen to something?’

It's just so weird - watching videos on full volume is something that would make most people embarrassed! It's insane that people have zero self awareness of respect for the people around them. Even if the child didn't have headphones, they could've been watching something on low volume or reading a book or there or something. Or just talking to their mum!

They don't care.

(I speak from experience. Barely go out to restaurants, cafes and pubs these days as despite what MN says, kids on devices is now the norm and they never use headphones. Sadly train and bus travel is essential so I can't avoid it but it's the same there.)

No it's not too much. The DC was rude, and the parent was incompetent.

It's everywhere, but it's half-term and so much much worse, as lots of DC with parents travelling on trains when they're not really regular public transport users, and have minimal consideration for sharing public transport space with other travellers.

Today on a longish journey, that turns into a commuter journey nearer the city, a boy sitting next to me (his mother across the asle) was sitting sideways with his legs in the aisle, so that everyone had to step over them. One quite visibly elderly lady almost tripped. And the boy didn't move, but worse, his mother didn't tell him to move.

Some children are being brought up to be immensely selfish.