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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are so self-righteous about certain child safety issues even when they are simply wrong. Often people are just externalizing random anxiety because it makes them feel in control to yell at another person. There is often a serious lack of self-awareness.

I once saw a woman pull over to scream (and I mean scream) at a dad who was walking down the sidewalk with his daughter. They were walking fairly slowly (kid was like 2 or 3) and the dad was maybe a couple steps in front of the kid but was clearly attentive -- I was walking a bit behind and watched him talking to her and making sure she was walking on the inside of the sidewalk away from traffic. He had his phone in his hand but was just glancing at it periodically.

Then this woman stops her SUV and rolls down her window and screams at this guy to "stop looking at his phone and watch your child!" Again the child was on the sidewalk and was totally fine and the dad was watching her. I have no idea what this woman was freaking out about -- I guess she saw the guy looking at his phone and decided to make an example out of him. Then she kept saying "people speed on this road all the time! people hop the curb all the time!" [b]So I guess her argument was that this dad was irresponsible for being on that sidewalk at all.[/b] I guess he should have put his kid in the car to go wherever they were going because all the speeders and dangerous drivers mean he's negligent for taking his child for a walk.

And the kicker here is that this woman was stopped *in traffic* when this was happening. Other cars where having to change lanes to get around her while she had her little meltdown and this poor dad is just staring at her like wtf is happening.

This thread is making me think about that woman. Y'all want to take your own anxiety and fears about carjacking and crime out on some stranger whose kid is FINE. And you can't even see that you are just externalizing your fear and scapegoating perfectly good parents as somehow responsible for everything you find scary and unpredictable about the world. You need all the other parents to be as anxious and overzealous as you are to justify your disordered thinking because that's easier for you then actually finding a way to calm the heck down and make practical and grounded decisions about safety.[/quote]
And yet, if your kid is fat, you're a bad parent for that too. You literally cannot win. [/quote]

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