The bottom line is that it is rude for ANYONE-- child or adult-- to watch a video or listen to music in public without headphones. It is selfishness pure and simple.

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

This is not complicated. The person who wants/needs to noise pollute the communal space should leave. People prepared to wait quietly should stay. The entitlement on this thread is mind boggling.

Lol “noise pollution”. You sound like my crotchety old uncle. Look people, kids exist. As much as some of the parents in this thread say otherwise, ALL children misbehave in public sometimes. ALL kids have been a public disturbance at times. Tablets or not. And No, the mom can’t always take the kid and go home to keep the noise pollution at bay.

If it really bothers you so much how about you pack some ear buds and listen to your porn or your cussing music or whatever you like.

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

If we are in a waiting room- whether my kid is watching a screen or I am reading him a book or my kid is being fussy... I DO NOT care about you. Not at all. If you cannot handle a noise in a public environment like that, you are the one with the problem. I would never take my kid outside unless there they were being a serious disruption.

A toddler throwing a fit and needing to watch a video/play a game at full volume is a serious disruption. It will get you escorted out of a decent number of places.

Did I say “throwing a fit”? “Full volume”? That’s just hyperbole. Is anyone really watching videos with the volume up to 10? Really? You use hyperbole because you need to exaggerate normal situations to justify your inability to deal with basic life scenarios.

Seriously. Somehow we went from a parent reading a child a book in a doctors waiting room to blaring videos at full volume in the middle of a nice restaurant.

Nope. This thread started with tablets and phones without headphones and a bunch of entitled parents want to make all kinds of arguments about why they just can't take little Johhny out without his videos, but somehow it is impossible to also bring headphones. No books anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

You mean having dozens of neighbors and family around who SAH and can watch my children, so I don’t have to bring them to the orthodontist with me?

You can hire a babysitter, like the rest of us do. The staff are not there to babysit. They will be polite and silently wish that you had gotten hit by a bus on your way in.

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

You mean having dozens of neighbors and family around who SAH and can watch my children, so I don’t have to bring them to the orthodontist with me?

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

If we are in a waiting room- whether my kid is watching a screen or I am reading him a book or my kid is being fussy... I DO NOT care about you. Not at all. If you cannot handle a noise in a public environment like that, you are the one with the problem. I would never take my kid outside unless there they were being a serious disruption.

A toddler throwing a fit and needing to watch a video/play a game at full volume is a serious disruption. It will get you escorted out of a decent number of places.

Did I say “throwing a fit”? “Full volume”? That’s just hyperbole. Is anyone really watching videos with the volume up to 10? Really? You use hyperbole because you need to exaggerate normal situations to justify your inability to deal with basic life scenarios.

Seriously. Somehow we went from a parent reading a child a book in a doctors waiting room to blaring videos at full volume in the middle of a nice restaurant.

Anonymous wrote:No headphones, no tablet for DD, no exceptions. People can't escape on a plane or a train, and who on Earth wants to watch 10 episodes of Doc McStuffins? (Besides my kid, obviously.)

If your child also wants to watch it, isn’t it better if the other child is watching without headphones?

No headphones, no tablet for DD, no exceptions. People can't escape on a plane or a train, and who on Earth wants to watch 10 episodes of Doc McStuffins? (Besides my kid, obviously.)

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I'll turn the tablet off and you can listen to DC crying and whining for the next 15 minutes.

(BTW - many 2-3 year olds will not keep headphones on their ears)

Question - would you be as ticked off if I had brought a book and was reading aloud to DC?

Oh FFS stop being so dramatic. I have flown with my 3.5 year old on probably around 35 flights and then together with my 2 year on about 15 more. This includes about half that are trans-Pacific flights. It would never occur to me to let them use their tablets at full volume with others around them. The same goes for time spent in hotel executive/club lounges. Please stop acting like full volume on tablets vs your kid screaming are the only 2 options. If you’d taught your kids from the beginning that civilized people don’t blare their devices for the world to hear, then maybe you wouldn’t have that issue. No sympathy here and no excuses. It’s part of parenting in a ~supposedly~ polite society.

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

If we are in a waiting room- whether my kid is watching a screen or I am reading him a book or my kid is being fussy... I DO NOT care about you. Not at all. If you cannot handle a noise in a public environment like that, you are the one with the problem. I would never take my kid outside unless there they were being a serious disruption.

A toddler throwing a fit and needing to watch a video/play a game at full volume is a serious disruption. It will get you escorted out of a decent number of places.

Did I say “throwing a fit”? “Full volume”? That’s just hyperbole. Is anyone really watching videos with the volume up to 10? Really? You use hyperbole because you need to exaggerate normal situations to justify your inability to deal with basic life scenarios.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

If we are in a waiting room- whether my kid is watching a screen or I am reading him a book or my kid is being fussy... I DO NOT care about you. Not at all. If you cannot handle a noise in a public environment like that, you are the one with the problem. I would never take my kid outside unless there they were being a serious disruption.

A toddler throwing a fit and needing to watch a video/play a game at full volume is a serious disruption. It will get you escorted out of a decent number of places.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

If we are in a waiting room- whether my kid is watching a screen or I am reading him a book or my kid is being fussy... I DO NOT care about you. Not at all. If you cannot handle a noise in a public environment like that, you are the one with the problem. I would never take my kid outside unless there they were being a serious disruption.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

Yeah, that too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.

Better yet, learn to parent your child like the multitudes of generations that came before you. Don't be such a lazy, entitled, ass.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with people is that some of them think the world revolves around their uncontrolled child.

Don't want to listen to Lil Jon screaming cuss words? That's exactly how I feel about listening to even 1 second of Baby Shark.

Take. Your. Kid. Outside.

Uh no. I have zero problems whipping out my phone and playing a video for my kid in a pinch. My kid has as much of a right to be in a waiting room as you. Don’t like it? You leave. Kids exist in the same spaces as you. Get used to it. And your Lil John initimidation tactics are hilariously stupid. I almost have more respect for the person who suggested the pornography.

What would be the major problem with using headphones, though? Nobody cares what your kid is watching, they just don't want to hear it. Seriously, you can get volume limited toddler headphones for like $12 from every Wal-Mart/Target everywhere. Stick them in your bag and when your kid 'needs' a video, pull them out.