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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And see all the adults not confronting because its another adult behaving poorly but when its a 2 year old you just go ahead [url]https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1294075.page[/url][/quote]

I commented on that post too and said that I confronted adults as well. I'm really not sure what kind of point you're trying to make. [/quote]

The point is, OP choose to direct herself to a child versus the adult with her. If you would have talked to the mom instead of the child since you are consistent in confronting ADULTS about their behavior then the point wasnt for you. It is to amplify those of us saying, hey dont talk to the kid talk to the adult.  :roll: [/quote]

Too bad. People can talk to whomever they want to when they're out in public. What happened to "It takes a village"? Oh, you don't get to be part of a village if you're actually outside IN the village -- you just get to pick and choose, eh?[/quote]
In the village, a kind motherly figure would have picked up the child and tried to console her. NOT yell at or punish her. [/quote]

A village is a community of people you know.  If OP said that she came around the corner, and realized that the toddler was her niece, or next door neighbor's kid, or a preschool classmate of her own kid (e.g. a person in her village) and had approached the toddler and spoke to them, that would be an entirely different thing.  OP can correct me if we're wrong, but it sounds like this child was a stranger to her. [/quote]

That’s not actually what “a village” means in the saying. It means the community all upholds standards of behaviors and helps out each other by telling other people’s kids they are misbehaving. It doesn’t mean only people you actually know.

It used to be when a kid was shrieking loud enough AND long enough a store full of people are grimacing and looking at each other someone in that community /village would speak up to offer to help the parent and/or say something to the kid.

Times have changed and instead of thinking collectively what is good for the village it is now all individualistic.

A parent wants to laugh it off while a kid shrieks and disrupts the store- kid/parent have a right to disturb the peace. Person decides they want to have a phone conversation and use speaker mode to have that loud conversation in the store- no problem, person wants to aggressively beg for money in a parking lot- no problem. Person wants to brazenly shoplift in a store, no problem. People bringing in dogs who pee in stores and lunge out you- no problem.

I’m officially old because all of that bothers me and makes me want to move to a place like Singapore or Denmark. [/quote]

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