Sounds like an overwhelmed mom with a newborn. Have a little compassion.

You don’t own the waiting room.

I probably would have seen this as an opportunity to socialize and wouldn’t have brought my laptop at all. I would have been so thankful for not-silent mom! I probably would have offered to hold the baby and asked her what her name was.

You need to unclench.
Is your daughter your only child?

+1 and just be glad you aren’t her. It isnt fun dragging younger siblings to the older sibling’s activities but sometimes it can’t be helped. I like that she brought crayons and not a tablet.

Anonymous wrote:Eh. I'm sensitive to noise so I'd have found it annoying, but I'd have just moved to the bigger waiting room or something.

+1 same. But then again I'm not an asshole.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you just get up and go out to the lobby?

See, this is BS. Why do we allow kids to be disruptive as hell, just because they are kids? That’s so rude! Why, in a room of five quiet adults, should ONE ADULT have to get up and leave? Why does your child’s rowdiness trump the other adult’s peace? Nobody wants to listen to your loud child. Not in the grocery store, not in the quiet waiting area of a child’s activity, either. Take that outside.

But adults are allowed to have conversations in waiting rooms. Even loud conversations. OP is just being silly. So are you.

Anonymous wrote:You need to lighten up and have some sympathy for a mother with a newborn and two toddlers. Leave the room next time and chill out.

I guess she didn’t choose to have sex four times in such rapid succession. I do sympathize with her sexual strife.

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you just get up and go out to the lobby?

See, this is BS. Why do we allow kids to be disruptive as hell, just because they are kids? That’s so rude! Why, in a room of five quiet adults, should ONE ADULT have to get up and leave? Why does your child’s rowdiness trump the other adult’s peace? Nobody wants to listen to your loud child. Not in the grocery store, not in the quiet waiting area of a child’s activity, either. Take that outside.

I don't think you can have an expectation of quiet in a waiting room. Parents will bring younger siblings. It sounds like this mom had her hands full and was barely keeping it all together. She may have felt it as safest to stay in the interior waiting room to be sure the 2 or 3 year old didn't take off out a door from the lobby. Lobbies often aren't very contained and with 3 under 3 she probably needed a more contained space. Kudos to her to getting the oldest to class!

If they can hear her in the classroom, yes, it's rude. But that's for the teacher to deal with.

You need to lighten up and have some sympathy for a mother with a newborn and two toddlers. Leave the room next time and chill out.

It's a waiting room in a kiddie dance class studio. Not a library!

Anonymous wrote:It's only rude if the noise was disturbing the class. Although the waiting room was quiet, there's no rule (said or unsaid) that it had to be quiet.

This.

If it bothered you, OP, then move.

Anonymous wrote:Meh.

+1