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[ppeatfruit]

To feel very uncomfortable on seeing a young mum 'plugged in'on the tube at7.3oa.m. with a one year old in a buggy who was trying to talk to her.
It was obvious that she was going to a work place nursery so the child would get no time with her mum there.could she not have actually talked to her child?

yabu to judge

whatever happened to sisterly solidarity?

We've already had this thread quite recently. YANBU to see a 30 second slice of someone's life and seize the judging opportunity. Keep it up.

I'm not convinced by the 'you have no right to judge' argument mitchy, why have MN otherwise?

ppea, sounds a bit like some of the mums I see picking up their children from school who don't say hello, give them a hug, or acknowledge them in any way, often being on the phone etc. I feel sorry for the children who might be forgiven for thinking their mums don't seem that happy to see them. Whether or not they are happy to see them is neither here nor there, if they don't show it how are the children to know??

What on earth has the fact she is young got to do with it? If I referred to a Mum as old in any context on MN I would be flamed.

depends doesn't it, if you witness same parent doing same thing day after day is probably fair to draw some conclusions - up to a point

few minutes on a train not really enough is it

I think I didn't like the implication that the possibility of the baby going into nursery so the mum could support it was a form of neglect in itself '. . . so the child would get no time with her mum there' even tho OP knows nothing about the circumstances?

I wouldn't care about being called old or young it's just realistic isn't it? like being a male or female. It's a shame that some people use it as an insult.
I fully understand that she could well have been listening to revision tapes before dropping child at her mum's and attending an exam. Actually that's the only reason i can think of for being plugged in in public; to see cyclists and joggers in them annoys me as well;they are probably putting themselves and others at risk what's wrong with birdsong and sirens?!! Now i know you'll all think i've lost it!!

It may be only a snapshot but I must say I hate to see parents so disengaged from their children.

I used to regularly walk past a dad pushing toddler in buggy on my way to and from work. I think he was going to nursery or childminder. I saaw him many times over a couple of years and never once did I see any communication between parent and child.