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[quote=Anonymous]I took my 17 month old son to breakfast this morning to catch up with an old friend (whom I haven't seen in 16 years who was passing through town with her two little girls, 2 and 4).  My son is a "spirited" child, so I brought all his favorite small toys to play with, snacks, special juice, etc.  The restaurant not crowded and there were only a few patrons dining there.  And this was around 9AM.

We were all chatting and finishing up the meal and I was literally thanking God my little boy had been so good and stayed in his chair during the meal, when a lady, probably in her late 50's, walked over to our table.  She started off by saying how she had been "observing" our table during our meal, so I was getting ready to hear her say how she loved watching our kids. Instead, she proceeded to UNLEASH about what I bad mother I was and how I "rewarded" my child when he was screaming (he shrieked a few times while we were there out of happiness, but he was not screaming throughout the whole meal by any means).  She told me I should discipline my child and she could not believe how inconsiderate I was to HER.

I responded something about how she must have never been a baby and must have been a perfect child, and reminded her how hard it was to discipline such a small child, and she kept telling me over and over "DISCIPLINE YOUR CHILD!!!"

1) I was embarrassed because I hadn't seen this friend in so long and had a public ass beating by this lady.
2) I burst into tears when I left because I just moved to town and don't know that many people, and it just feels like I have had a series of bad or unusual events lately.
3) She treated me like I was a terrible parent.  I don't think I'm a bad parent, or at least that bad, but when someone does something like that out of the blue to you, it makes you wonder.
4) I cannot believe how evil and mean people can be.  I wouldn't want to hear a baby screaming while I was at (a not that nice) breakfast place either, but I would never yell at someone else about it.  What would possess this lady to take out her problems on me, especially when I did absolutely everything I could to contain this little guy?  I couldn't have my friend over to my place because we JUST moved in and there is not even anywhere to sit down.  I wanted to see her and she was only available for breakfast.  Ugh!!!!

Anyway, I just needed to vent.  I have felt so badly about this all day and have been sort of teary about it when I think of it.  Thanks for letting me vent![/quote]

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