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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks to the sage advice I'd been given on DCUM, I am one of those 780-month olds who have stopped doing anything when it comes to someone else and their child.

I posted about a child getting ready to fall head-first out of a grocery cart (mom had her back turned momentarily) and I was ripped a new one for being intrusive, judgemental, you name it.

Since then other people's children are invisible to me. No more warnings of immediate danger, no more offers to help, no more smiles or friendly overtures.

It is a different world than the one I was raised in and fully understand that now.

See, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I've learned my lesson. 
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I’m sorry you were  treated poorly, but you should not become the negative person here.  Act like you were raised and care.[/quote]

Nope.

In my generation if an older woman showed her care/concern and offered help she wasn't treated with disdain and outright hostility. Why be subjected to "poor" treatment again? Do you think it's pleasant to have someone be nasty to you in public when you've sincerely tried to prevent their child from being injured?

The OP's description of age as a descriptor makes it obvious that age is a real bias now in these situations. If the person offering help had been a generational peer it would be a completely different story, I'm sure.  
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I don’t find ageism nearly as bad in the real world as it is on this forum.  But you have a valid point.[/quote]

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