'Naughty' toddler thrown off bus

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Can't believe the bus driver What a bully. Bet if it was a gang of teenagers acting up he wouldn't have said anything. How embarrassing for the poor mum

'supportive sisterhood'? is that backing the female without knowing the full facts and regardless of whether she is right or wrong or you have no idea if she's right or wrong?

I think it's important to be balanced. We have no idea what actually happened and the idea that we should automatically side with the one with the tits just because we've got tits too, without knowing or caring what actually happened is silly.

Questioning the media reporting is one thing - questioning the right or need of women with small children to use buses is quite another.

How about the right and need of the driver not to be distracted by a screaming child? How about the rights and needs of the other passengers?

Why did she not just get off and wait for the next bus? Are they really that infrequent?

If the report is true then I think the bus driver's behaviour was disgusting. In my opinion he is a public servant and dealing with the public is part of his job. It's not as if this was a bunch of hooligans smashing the bus up.

I would want to knoiw a bit more. Was the child only crying or was he running up and down the aisle, climbing on the seats, getting close to the doors, risking injury? Do we get to hear the driver's version?

Because I do regularly see small children who are totally out of control, whose parents' preferred method of dealing with a bus journey is to plonk child at a seat at the oppposite end of the bus and then yell and swear at them ineffectually.

Speaking as someone who used to work extremely hard at keeping mine entertained and occupied (particularly remember that 17hr train journey to Berlin ), I do find it annoying.

I can well understand that it may not be a question of getting off and waiting for the next bus: they may be extremely infrequent. But before I come down wholeheartedly on the side of the mother, I would need to know that she actually did the work.

it is amazing the different discussion on this subject to the discussion on mumsnet, where they are all baying for the drives blood, much more level headed on this forum.

This is mumsnet

If my child was kicking off I wouldn't get off and wait for another one because a) it is likely that I need to be somewhere for a particular time and b) would want to get home as quickly as possible regardless if my child was playing up, not prolong it.

I am with BALD. We need to wait for proof of what happened.

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So she made the final part of the conversation up? What a complete waste of everyone's time.

Who needs the facts? The driver should be shot . Sisterhood? No thanks.

I sort of feel like she was forced into getting off if he told her tiwce that she would have to.

My reaction this story is - SO WHAT?

There are people starving out there. There are kids being abused. There are children stuck in orphanages.

The kid was misbehaving. It was distracting the driver. Mother could not fix it, so they were asked to get off the bus.

NO BIG DEAL? Why the fuss .

Social entitlement gone mad, if you ask me.

meh, I can see why she was annoyed, and probably moaned to a friend about it who said that's awful you should try and get it in the newspaper, you might get some cash for the story, she thinks why not and here we are......

The second story really doesn't add much to the first, and the bus company hasn't revealed exactly what the bus driver said to her. But I'm with NappyAddict, IF he asked her twice to keep the child quiet or she needed to get off, he's bullying her off the bus.

Honestly if she was only on for four miles or so, could he not have just said to her, hey I'm sorry your little boy is so upset, always tough to deal with tantrums blah blah blah, but the noise is really a problem for me. How far are you going? Four miles? Well, okay, I can put up with it for that long...

Everyone's going on about whether it takes 20 minutes or 30 to walk the extra mile (ish). It takes less than 5 minutes to DRIVE it. It's just intolerant and unnecessary to humiliate her into leaving.

And surely the point of going to the press with these stories is that maybe the next bus driver to ask a mum with screeching toddler to leave will use a more sensitive approach.

I bet she feels very embarrased right now,making tales up.

Hot, exhausted, nauseous, make the lazy cow walk?

listen to yourselves.

Bus driver needs to get on with it, he is dealing with the public no robots.

Had it been an sdult with complex needs who was screaming and shouting I bet he wouldnt have made them walk.

Tosser !

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We still don't know if the boy was only having a crying tantrum or if he was throwing things/being difficult in other ways. We also don't know how the mum reacted to him- the mums round here would react by screaming at the top of their voices, not pleasant for fellow travellers.

She said he was fed up I think most 2 year olds would be fed up stuck in a pushchair when mine where young we had to fold our pushchairs sat them on our knee or seat if bus wasn't busy didn't have many problems.

When mine were little I used to have to talk to them non-stop; in fact, used to have to start well before the bus arrived telling them a story that would have them hooked for the length of the journey. And yes, I did use to take them out of pushchair when they were that age.