I understand your point and lately kinda feel the same way. However, let me give you the other side, just in case you are interested.
That mom may not have been shopping for nailpolish or jewelry or some other optional errand. Maybe she needed whatever she was there to get, and maybe leaving the kid with someone else while she went was not an option. I do see lots of kids in WalMart who seem overstimulated by all the lights and noise and other people and I doubt that's the case for all of them, but how would you know which ones it's true of? Picking the child up might be an option (I forget, was this a baby or a toddler?) but perhaps the mother's mother keeps telling her she'll spoil the kid if she picks it up every time if cries. I disagree with that school of parenting if we're talking about a baby, but it definitely exists. If i this was a two-year old, perhaps there really was no alternative to letting her cry or else leaving. Maybe that mother was doing the best she knew how, how about that for a theory. I find myself more and more reluctant to pass judgement on people anymore. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can appreciate what Gruss is saying. Very little irks me more than > a parent who does not try stop a child's crying while in public (or > better yet, on an airplane...that is always fun). > > I would never call the cops, but I have made comments to the parents > or asked them to make an attempt to stop the kid from crying/carrying > on/etc. One time it even resulted in another diner at the restaurant > paying for our meal :D. > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Scott Stewart<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > No, I'm a big boy, if someone's kid is driving me crazy enough I'll be > > somewhere else, I'm not going to call the authorities over someone's > > screaming child... If it did that in Raleigh, I'd spend all of my waking > > moments on the phone with the cops.. > > > > -- > > Scott Stewart > > ColdFusion Developer > > 4405 Oakshyre Way > > Raleigh, NC 27616 > > (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:11 PM > > To: cf-community > > Subject: Re: This pissed me off just reading it > > > > > >> Scott wrote: > >> I hope he gets the maximum, not only for felony child cruelty, > > > > But the mother - if she was making no attempt to take the child out of > > the situation, you'd also support a disturbing the peace charge for > > her too right? > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303641 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
