What exercises you most about other people's parenting? Fess up.

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I am secretly very unreasonable about people who live in cities who do not vaccinate their children.

Oh c'mon ScottishMummy - climb down from your high horse and join in the bun fight! Have you honestly never looked at another parent/child and thought "tcha"? Surely there must be something that gets your goat, between worrying about world famine?

Anyway, lots of people have raised very "big" issues on this thread. Although not me, I admit.

MissGoLightly - LOL i am annoyed that i seem unable to climb off my high horse

lighten up scottishmummy - you should have been able to tell from the title thread that this wasn't going to be totally serious!

blimey - the last post was the laughpoking bit o fun at myself since golightly mentioned me on the highhorse

im not that feckin biscuit arsed u know

Parent who allow them to hit them with out any form of disciple.

Parents who say "no" at the first request and then give way at the least sign of resistance.

However, as I am guilty of many of the things that annoy other people on this thread, I shall try hard to work at over comming this.

sorry scottishmummy we x posted!

oooh i found the white noise a godsend!!

today my mum said i can't stand it when people take their dogs to the car boot when the know kids will be about. wtf kids can't be by dogs?? fair enough if the dog was like the one i saw the other day that jumped into some poor child's pushchair. if the dog is going to go out then owners should be able to control it fair enough but to say they shouldn't be nea children. i was to say the least

parents who smoke or let other people smoke in front of their kids

oh and smoking pregnant brides drinking beer tend to annoy me too

Apart from the obvious (violence, shouting, swearing etc.)Toddlers in bikinis! I counted at least 4 at the swimming pool on Friday. Couldn't give a toss about snotty noses, toddlers in trollies etc. I'd be a hypocrite if I did

I hate pseudo 'hippy' types who flounce around in a whirlwind of pretense going yeah we/my kids are like sooo laid back and like yeah we dont need to discipline and like yeah I'd breastfeed until he/she was 106 if I could because attachment is like yeah so good (and I just cant say no really).And yeah, my kids can run round the restaurant being creative and shouting and staying up until "Harlequin decides when he needs to sleep"(basically running the show)
When really the parents are incapable of being assertive and again and decide to be a hippy instead because it looks nicer.

Comments like "people in inner cities being selfish/irresponsible for not getting their child vaccinated" is way too narrow minded for a genuine 'hippy'. Its the establishment thats selfish for brainwashing us into a herd mentality and duping us with half baked facts.That really excercises me.

People who take children with Chickenpox out as normal instead of quarantining them until the spots have dried up. They usually say something like, "Well, they've all got to get it sometime, haven't they?", but do these muppets not realise that not everyone has had it and some of those could be pregnant. Also immunosupressed people like the elderly and those on chemotherapy are likely to get Shingles (which can be agonising and protracted) which I wouldn't wish on anyone.

Coming into contact with someone with CP won't give you shingles - unless I am very much mistaken - singles occurs when you have already had CP, the virus lives in the nerves and you get flare ups when stressed or run down (much like coldsores).

I thought recontact with the virus and your body's defence mechanisms to that was what let the original virus in your system get hold and create Shingles. I might be wrong...

You definitely can't catch shingles from someone with Chickenpox - I think the virus lurks in everyone who has had CP and stress/illness etc can cause it to flare-up. I had to look into it when my dd had CP because my Dad is on steroids and got very confused about the whole thing. You can get CP from someone who has Shingles if you haven't had CP but it has to be direct contact with the open sores unlike catching CP which is airborne.

cheeky, god i could have written that post ! i have a friend who is just like that, a hippie, dresses like one tries really hard to act like one - it is awful to watch because it is as though some tree-huggers have visited her in the middle of the night, removed her brain and replaced it with organic lentiles

she is incapable of independent thought, lets her toddler same age as mine do whatever he like and calls it "attachment" parenting and is so fecking smug about it it irritates the hell out of me. she didn't vaccinate because apparently bm prevents ALL things including malaria and typhoid

the only thing i have in common with her is the bf and allowing self-weaning, other than that she drives me mad !

Thaks Jacanne for this info. That settles my mind rather about my mum's risk as she's on chemo!