How would you react to a stranger shooshing your child at a restaurant?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH usually asks if the kid is retarded. Works every time.

Well, isn't your "DH" a big guy. Insulting a child, boy, that is just so manly. And the insult, well, it's witty enough to be printed in The New Yorker. If he made a statement like that to me or my wife in front of my child, I would ask him to step outside to discuss the matter further. I'm funny that way, when an adult insults a child I like to give the adult an opportunity to pick on someone his own size. When I was a child I had to put up with a-holes like your husband who thought it was nothing to insult and hurt a child. I'm betting your husband is just like so many people I have met through out the years and he will decline my offer because he is nothing more than a punk ass coward who only insults people he thinks can't fight back. And don't bother writing back with, we'll just sue you for assault. First, your husband will not have the balls to step outside. Second, I'll give him the first punch so I'll be doing nothing more than defending myself. Third, and sweetheart I know of what I speak, when he tells the cop that the dispute started because he was verbally abusing a child, the cop will explain to him that he's probably better off taking the ass whipping he deserved than going to court to testify that the fight started as a result of him verbally abusing a child. Fourth, you can be sure that if we did end up in court that his employer, your neighbors, the parents at your kid's school, the people at your church, social services and just about anyone in your community will know why -- that your husband is a guy who admitted under sworn oath that he verbally abuses children. So next time he is in D.C., Chevy Chase or Bethesda he better think twice before he opens his mouth and insults a child because he maybe talking to my child.

Thanks. I just opened this post, and I could not believe that the poster said this, others laughed, and no one said anything.

Yes, I agree. You can bet any adult insulting my child like that will get what's coming to them. On a tangential note, we have a lot of aggressive dogs in town whose owners let them run off leash and we are always seeing scared kids getting chased, jumped on, and nipped at. My husband and I agree that any dog that comes near our kid like that will get a mouthful of our arm, and that bite will lead to its early demise. Some things are just not acceptable, and some people have to learn the hard way.

what? you make no sense. sometimes my mailman shows up at 2 p.m. instead of 1 p.m. that is how relevant your statement was

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what? you make no sense. sometimes my mailman shows up at 2 p.m. instead of 1 p.m. that is how relevant your statement was

I take a nap at 2 pm. If my mailman shows up then, you can bet I'm going to shoosh him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:what? you make no sense. sometimes my mailman shows up at 2 p.m. instead of 1 p.m. that is how relevant your statement was

I take a nap at 2 pm. If my mailman shows up then, you can bet I'm going to shoosh him.[/quo

In a soft, friendly way or a really loud, prolonged shoosh that might upset him and cause him to have a really bad day? That would be terrible when he's just trying to do his job the best he can . . .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:what? you make no sense. sometimes my mailman shows up at 2 p.m. instead of 1 p.m. that is how relevant your statement was

I take a nap at 2 pm. If my mailman shows up then, you can bet I'm going to shoosh him.

Like PP, I'm wondering what kind of shoosh. A really MEAN one? Or a regular one? Beware, it can make people cry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP said "I admit, my kid wasn't sitting perfectly quiet, but this was a very noisy place and he would occassionally get loud. Each time, we told him to be quiet and he would be good for a while"

EACH TIME!!!!

Exactly. And yet she doesn't seem to get at all why a stranger might has her kid to pipe down. It's so *mean*!

[Anonymous]

Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Where you at? we can take it to you. Otherwise......SHOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Where you at? we can take it to you. Otherwise......SHOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you should take it to the library where your regurgitated shooshs will be more appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Can you cut back on the hypocrisy? You are responding to a thread to ask people to stop responding (though I get it, you don't want to keep hearing things you disagree with, I guess if people have the same opinion as you, they're welcome to keep posting). You're also using swear words and insults while getting riled up about someone else's perceived meanness transgression.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Where you at? we can take it to you. Otherwise......SHOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah! Where she be??!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Can you cut back on the hypocrisy? You are responding to a thread to ask people to stop responding (though I get it, you don't want to keep hearing things you disagree with, I guess if people have the same opinion as you, they're welcome to keep posting). You're also using swear words and insults while getting riled up about someone else's perceived meanness transgression.

Not the poster you are responding to, but it is an apples to oranges comparison. And you know it.

Swear words and insults against adults who, quite frankly, are acting like total jerks and upsetting CHILDREN- deserve whatever is hurled in their direction. Upsetting/yelling/scolding a child who is saying hi (however loudly) in an iHOP or other family restaurant is a jerk off move. If a child or children is in a family restaurant and acting developmentally appropriate (even if a bit loud) then you need to shut it and eat your dinner or go somewhere else that caters to adults.

I mean, really. The 3 yo said hi loudly. More than once. The horrors!
My kid does EVERYTHING loud, even when she's trying to be quiet. God, you people are too much. More precious than the children you are scolding!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Can you cut back on the hypocrisy? You are responding to a thread to ask people to stop responding (though I get it, you don't want to keep hearing things you disagree with, I guess if people have the same opinion as you, they're welcome to keep posting). You're also using swear words and insults while getting riled up about someone else's perceived meanness transgression.

Oh i'm sure they're terribly offended. This has been the nastiest thread I have read in a long time, calling kids autistic, retarded, and all sorts if other terrible things. I have no doubt these are the same posters that keep rehashing it. But you're right, I will let them resume their witty repartee of "shhhhh" in an effort to convince themselves that they are not miserable old bags that time has forgot. Carry on!

[Anonymous]

16:09, you are upsetting my three-year-old, who has been reading the thread. She says you're being mean to the mommies and that she might cry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you bitches take it somewhere else already? Upsetting a three year old who is saying hi to you ( even if he did it loud) is mean. If you get your granny panties all up in twist over three year olds being loud at IHOP then you have bigger problems in life than the OP or anyone else.

Can you cut back on the hypocrisy? You are responding to a thread to ask people to stop responding (though I get it, you don't want to keep hearing things you disagree with, I guess if people have the same opinion as you, they're welcome to keep posting). You're also using swear words and insults while getting riled up about someone else's perceived meanness transgression.

Oh i'm sure they're terribly offended. This has been the nastiest thread I have read in a long time, calling kids autistic, retarded, and all sorts if other terrible things. I have no doubt these are the same posters that keep rehashing it. But you're right, I will let them resume their witty repartee of "shhhhh" in an effort to convince themselves that they are not miserable old bags that time has forgot. Carry on!

I didn't perceive the comment about autism spectrum characteristics as intended to be mean. Also, not saying this 3 year old is ASD, but the only poster to witness the whole scene was the mom. The rest of us are only hearing a one-sided view of the incident. We have no idea of the behaviors that preceded the possibly soft "Shh." For all we know, the other diners had been very patient.

[Anonymous]

Maybe so. We don't have the video tape, however the people on here have been behaving like they personally witnessed this child stab someone with a fork while his parents laughed and stuffed their faces. That's the problem with the majority of the posts here. Quick to villify, bully and push their own agenda (even if it means hurling insults at children). If your not one of those posters, that's fine and your opinion above is perfectly valid and contributes to the discussion, but that's not what I have found objectionable here. Hurtful and mean spirited posts should be addressed.