The Guardian Toddlers Mumsnet piece

[Hassled]

is here. Some fantastic quotes

LOL at "north London looking family" Hassled.

Oh I got quoted - twice

at my fellow guardian readers and their judgy panted smuggery though

"Another guide to neo liberal parenting... great.
This country is breeding a generation of feral chavs en masse."

Nice

Does s/he not know that the word chav is Not Nice

I didnt realise that so many daily mail readers also read the guardian

I am shocked at the attitude of my fellow guardian readers. At least there are a couple who seem to have seen the humour...

jeez, it seems the only Guardian readers with a sense of humour are on MN...

x-posted with Attilla, pretty much!

Sorry - I have completely lost the point of this thread because I am laughing so hard at purplemonkeydishwasher and her "Christ on a bike"

Is it very wrong that I feel a little bit sorry for the man on the plane?

A few years ago I went on a much needed child-free break to Barcelona to stay with a friend. On the way out the check-in lady asked me if I minded sitting next to a six year old unaccompanied minor. I spent the whole flight cutting up his dinner, putting the lids back on his felt tips and playing I Spy.

I am really shocked by the Guardian comments; perhaps the Telegraph website is down?

Goodness me, the Guardian attracts a lot of wankers nowadays.

The article was funny

The comments were utterly fucking depressing

People in this country really do hate children don't they.

Hmmm I do sympathise Justine having been both the parent who gets all the compliments on having a very well behaved child even on a transatlantic flight and the one whose glance everyone avoided as same child screamed for 2 hours on the way back from Nice (3 hour flight delay missed nap, carnage). The most recent one was actually fine with 6 week old and 3 year old but this year we are going to Wales-hurrah no airports!

I too am a fellow Guardian reader . What a load of smug %*%??? the commenteers are.
Mind you, I would might have thought the same thing before I had children.

The ones that say they have got kids either
a)obviously don't spend much time looking after them; or
b)Were naturally endowed with such a degree of self congratulatory self rightiousness there was no room left for a sense of humour.

I read the Guardian online and can confirm that a large amount of folk who post there are so far up their own arses they're coming out the other end.

There's a lovely image for you all

I am rather delighted, in that case, that i couln't get to comment

I've clicked on the comments, cos I could do with a laugh, but I can't get them loaded??

Must be frustrating (if not upsetting) for Justine to have written a tongue-in-cheek, amusing article at the expense of her own child, and then be ripped to shreds about it by a load of uptight, humourless gits. As someone said earlier, more like the Mail...

Oh yes, and what justabout said.

Either that or they're 40 years old blokes doing same

Lots of people on there think they are very important and that accordingly their views on..well, everything are also important and should be taken extrenely seriously.

Great article and quotes, and so nice to see everyone in print. Palermo's cat toothbrushing made me laugh like a drain(which doesn't often happen when reading the Guardian).

What surprisingly horrid people on the Guardian forum though! That one called GiveUsPeace is v v scary.

I feel the same of course. Ahem.

lol Janos, don't we all. But being self-important is surely OK, as long as you can avoid being too thoroughly unpleasant at the same time.