Some new mums are worrying me

[Marekesque]

I feel very strongly about what I am seeing so I have found this place to share my thoughts...

Today I saw three separate incidents of mums leading their child / children out into the road to get into the baby seat fitted to the off side of the car.

In some countries it is against the law to get into, or out of a car on the off-side ( road side ) for obvious reasons. It is dangerous.

Seeing these little children being walked into the road just looked so wrong. Surely a mother would park her car to make sure the baby seat is on the near side ( pavement side ) to ensure the total safety of her baby / child getting into and out of the car ?

Whilst I'm here, two other things...

Baby buggies are very handy, the child is almost on the ground so no fear of it falling out of the buggy, and buggies are light etc... but, from what I see, the baby/toddler is facing forward, and cannot see its mum and is detached from its Mum. Add to that along the typical busy high street the poor child is at exhaust pipe level of all the traffic, breathing in all those fumes, and how many times have I, as a driver, seen the front of a buggy being pushed out from behind parked cars, before I see the mum safely behind the child she is pushing into the road.

Lastly, with the proliferation of mobile phones, I cannot count the number of mums I see pushing a sad looking toddler in the buggy looking ahead with no connection with the mum, whilst she is talking on her phone. The apparent lack of connection is hard to ignore.

OP can't be that worried. Where are they?

What do you mean by 'new mums', OP? If their offspring are capable of being 'led' out into the road to be put in a car seat, surely their mothers might be viewed more as 'relatively experienced mothers of toddlers'?

Or do you mean 'new-fangled' mothers who dare to talk on their new-fangled phones while pushing their new-fangled front-facing buggies? Would you rather everyone was issued with a nice, old-fashioned Silver Cross pram which weighs the same as a good-sized tank, and small, portable bonfire for making smoke signals, should they need to contact anyone? Then you could get worries about those dastardly 'new mums' dropping their massive prams down a flight of steps, and setting their babies on fire.

Perhaps you should cycle instead of using a fume-producing car to alleviate your worries about the babies breathing in the bad stuff?

Hmmm. Three children, one baby in car seat, one toddler in car seat and one six year old in high backed booster. Not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do there OP, care to educate me?

Tell you what I do. I put the baby in the car on the pavement side, then I leave the 18-month old in the street while I drive round the block to turn the car around so her seat's on the pavement side. She's usually there when I get back. Do I win a parenting prize?

No, burglaries only when it's the school holidays and there are a lot of bored teenagers about

burglaries? burgatroyd. Damnyouautocorrect...

Hahahaha....love this! Come back OP and amuse us some more with your deep concerns! Like many others I have two kids - it's impossible not to put one of them on the road side .... of course I could just chuck my least favourite in the boot? Would that be better? But that would be kind of tricky given I'd have to jam my FORWARD FACING pram in too....all whilst jabbering incessantly on my mobile phone, of course.

This is priceless.

I want more!

But in all seriousness - I do want to know what you mean by "new mums".

Ha. I'm a feckin old mum and due to having three kids in car seats need to lead one around the off side of the car. I'm interested to know where this is illegal. I suppose the kids could cut a hole in the roof to get in past the rear facing toddler seat.

Depressing thing is that even if OP is a childless bridge-dweller, people really do think like this, as someone actually told me off in real life for doing this. Self-righteous, interfering idiocy knows no bounds.

My eyes have been opened. I'll put them both in the boot from now on - problem solved!

I've solved the problem. I'll just leave my two year old at home by himself.

I'm not bothering to read this after seeing the first few gleeful comments. You sound like a group of bullies. Getting your popcorn before the "fun" starts? "Ooh, OP will get a roasting"??? I remember girls like you at school.

Pathetic.

It's not pathetic, Toffee Moon. OP has effectively said that modern mothers (note: mothers,not parents) are shite.
He/she has been massively judgemental and has effectively lobbed a grenade and legged it. Note they have not returned to the thread.

So toffeemoon someone gets to come on here and be ridiculously snooty, judgemental and self-righteous, and if anybody dares call them on it, that is bullying? As someone who was bullied all the way through secondary school, I say: bollocks to that.

this thread has been done before, sure of it.

I see the OP was so worried they never returned.

weebarra and zoe I fully agree the OP is daft and should rightly be told as much. It's not disagreeing with the OP that I find unpleasant, it's the posters who add nothing of any worth but just pull up a seat to watch someone get roasted.

That is pathetic.

I'm going to ignore you calling me snooty and self-righteous. It seems a bit of a leap

If the OP is even genuine I think there will be an orgy of hat-eating, ToffeeMoon.

And no one called you snooty or self-righteous.

Toffeeemoon are you fairly new? It's not uncommon for threads like these to be started at the start of the school holidays so the early posters are responding to the likelihood that this OP may not be entirely genuine, not "bullying" them.

You couldn't even read THREE posts back tortoise???

No, thumbwitch been here years. The hilarious comments have always struck me as a form of cyber bullying actually. Like schoolkids surrounding two adversaries chanting "fight, fight!"

Anyway, you're wrong. The early posters weren't questioning the veracity of the OP.

I think the grab the popcorn comments mean. I think you're a twat and so will everyone else. Which in the case of this thread is pretty accurate.

I am glad you have found this place to express your thoughts op. Its very cathartic isn't it? Like virtual self flagellation.

TOFFEE your posting style is quite similar to the ops. I bet she/he iis glad to have you fight their corner

ToffeeMoon I think Tortoise can read three posts back. If you would like to read nine posts back you'll see that the snooty and self-righteous comments are about the OP.