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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give the mom a break, she's still figuring it all out. Maybe she'll take her kid out next time. Or not, maybe the rules of parenting today are changing and the world will be taken over by entitled brats. Either way get over it.
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Not OP but NO!  [b]I will not give bad mothers "a break".[/b]  It is simple common courtesy to remove your screaming kid from a public venue,  Common courtesy which you clearly do not have, PP, or you would never post something so ludicrous.

I am with you, OP.  I am an older mother and it shocks me that so many other mothers are so stunningly rude and narcissistic.  [/quote]

OK, so what will you do? Besides complain about it on DCUM.[/quote]

Yesterday, after the mother proved to be completely ineffective in getting her children to sit still and be quiet during [b]an important meeting[/b], I turned around and told the kids to be quiet myself. It worked and I would do it again, if needed. [/quote]

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An information meeting about a kids' activity. It was important that we get the info we need for the event. [/quote]

10:22 here.  So she was clearly hesitant to leave the meeting bc then she'd miss the important information, her kids weren't responding to her techniques, and they did respond to a stranger (not surprising, since mom tells them what to do all day every day, and yo ugave them a big pattern interrupt). Seems like a win-win to me: kids quieted down and nobody had to miss out on the information.  [/quote]

But that's the point, the info was important for EVERYONE to hear. She made the decision to bring her children, she should be the only one inconvenienced in that situation. 
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I just don't get why you and those similar to you choose the judgy route and not the empathy route. She needed the info just as much as you did.  Nobody brings their kids to these things because they want to bore their kids and possibly inconvenience everyone else, they do it because they have to for some reason or other. You don't know what went into her decision to bring them, so why judge the decision? Just because you were able to make a different one?

And then, in the end, you helped her. It took a village to raise her kids that day, and it ended well for everyone.  So why not be proud of yourself that you helped someone who was in a spot in a way that had absolutely no cost to you and was good for the community you're both a part of?  Why instead choose to judge and see yourself superior to her, just because you had the resources ot make another choice? Don't you get how your response makes YOU the rude one here, defined as "inconsiderate of others"? And you are all the ruder because YOU had a choice about whether to judge this person--much more of a choice than she likely had about bringing her kids to such an important meeting.  [/quote]

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