Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 18:45     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The general public is crazy. There are three places the general public will be encountered: the dmv, metro and highway rest stops. Teach your child that when they encounter crazy, they should move on. A single apology should suffice, but if your child doesn’t get a chance, it shouldn’t make a dent in their day. Just be grateful that your child isn’t the crazy.


This. Maybe it was discrimination. Maybe this person would have reacted this way to a child of any ethnicity. Either way, most people don't scream in response to something so minor. If you encounter someone who does, it's safest to not engage beyond an apology. Since there was no opportunity for an apology, moving on is a good response.

It sounds like that family and you reacted appropriately by moving on.


It may not have been a minor issue. Her child needs to learn to control his body and stay with a parent in crowded, unfamiliar environments.

100% this. Many kids go through a phase where they're big enough to move by themselves but not self-aware and they are constantly getting in other peoples' space/bumping them/stepping on them. Way too few parents watch their kids and correct this behavior, and the kids do outgrow it. For the safely of everyone, kids need to stay close by parents or chaperones and be guided in appropriate public behavior.
And heck even if there's no pain, if a kid steps on me, I'm going to say something like "hey, watch where you're going." The parent might consider it "yelling".


Would a passerby like OP consider it screaming?
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 18:28     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Troll or you would not have put immigrants.

Screw off a child is a child yes one says something WTH dies being a minority or immigrant have to do with this. You think white kids don’t do this? Shut up
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 18:27     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How would angry foot man know that the kid is an immigrant?


He wasn't blind.


What do immigrants look like?
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 18:24     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The general public is crazy. There are three places the general public will be encountered: the dmv, metro and highway rest stops. Teach your child that when they encounter crazy, they should move on. A single apology should suffice, but if your child doesn’t get a chance, it shouldn’t make a dent in their day. Just be grateful that your child isn’t the crazy.


This. Maybe it was discrimination. Maybe this person would have reacted this way to a child of any ethnicity. Either way, most people don't scream in response to something so minor. If you encounter someone who does, it's safest to not engage beyond an apology. Since there was no opportunity for an apology, moving on is a good response.

It sounds like that family and you reacted appropriately by moving on.


It may not have been a minor issue. Her child needs to learn to control his body and stay with a parent in crowded, unfamiliar environments.

100% this. Many kids go through a phase where they're big enough to move by themselves but not self-aware and they are constantly getting in other peoples' space/bumping them/stepping on them. Way too few parents watch their kids and correct this behavior, and the kids do outgrow it. For the safely of everyone, kids need to stay close by parents or chaperones and be guided in appropriate public behavior.
And heck even if there's no pain, if a kid steps on me, I'm going to say something like "hey, watch where you're going." The parent might consider it "yelling".
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 17:27     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The general public is crazy. There are three places the general public will be encountered: the dmv, metro and highway rest stops. Teach your child that when they encounter crazy, they should move on. A single apology should suffice, but if your child doesn’t get a chance, it shouldn’t make a dent in their day. Just be grateful that your child isn’t the crazy.


This. Maybe it was discrimination. Maybe this person would have reacted this way to a child of any ethnicity. Either way, most people don't scream in response to something so minor. If you encounter someone who does, it's safest to not engage beyond an apology. Since there was no opportunity for an apology, moving on is a good response.

It sounds like that family and you reacted appropriately by moving on.


It may not have been a minor issue. Her child needs to learn to control his body and stay with a parent in crowded, unfamiliar environments.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 16:30     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:The general public is crazy. There are three places the general public will be encountered: the dmv, metro and highway rest stops. Teach your child that when they encounter crazy, they should move on. A single apology should suffice, but if your child doesn’t get a chance, it shouldn’t make a dent in their day. Just be grateful that your child isn’t the crazy.


What a wild comment!

You don’t interact with the public except for those three places? That is some serious self segregation you have going on there. Not healthy.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:44     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Did the man scream or did he scold? There’s a difference. Screaming is not ok— a raised voice to a stomped foot in a metro absolutely is. If he was actually screaming it’s likely a bystander would have intervened.

Seven is old enough to understand about personal space, good manners, and the adverse outcomes which are possible for
when we don’t pay attention.

Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:31     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:You never know what you might encounter in public or what any given stranger might be dealing with in a moment, which is why you keep your kids very close to you in a crowd.

We saw an elderly man passing our house struggling to carry bags of groceries. My son asked if he could help him carry anything. The man went off on him with a string of curse words to raise the dead. It was truly bizarre and a wee bit traumatizing. He learned a lesson about strangers and the phrase "no good deed goes unpunished."


That's one elderly man. Most would have been extremely grateful.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:18     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:The general public is crazy. There are three places the general public will be encountered: the dmv, metro and highway rest stops. Teach your child that when they encounter crazy, they should move on. A single apology should suffice, but if your child doesn’t get a chance, it shouldn’t make a dent in their day. Just be grateful that your child isn’t the crazy.


+1 lots of crazies. Don't overthink and don't engage. This isn't like a fellow parent at school you will keep interacting with etc.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:17     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Scolding is nbd. Doesn’t sound like screaming.


Screaming loud enough to scare the kid who was already intimidated by due to crowd rushing fast.


stepping on someone's foot on the escalator probably scared them - you worry about falling, shoelaces or shoes getting caught in escalator teeth, etc. Give grace for someone getting upset and scared.


This is my thought. I’m terrified by the way some people rush by.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:15     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
You never know what you might encounter in public or what any given stranger might be dealing with in a moment, which is why you keep your kids very close to you in a crowd.

We saw an elderly man passing our house struggling to carry bags of groceries. My son asked if he could help him carry anything. The man went off on him with a string of curse words to raise the dead. It was truly bizarre and a wee bit traumatizing. He learned a lesson about strangers and the phrase "no good deed goes unpunished."
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:05     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Everything is "screaming" now. Geez. Get a grip.

F your race or immigration status (how TF are we to know that?).
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:04     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How would angry foot man know that the kid is an immigrant?


He wasn't blind.


Wow, that is amazingly racist
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 15:02     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
Anonymous wrote:How would angry foot man know that the kid is an immigrant?


He wasn't blind.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2025 14:59     Subject: If someone screams at your child in public
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid steps on my foot? I’m going to react! I don’t care if it’s blue Cookie Monster. For all you know the person has nerve pain, a bruise, a broken toe. And with no injury it’s still rude AF to step on a foot.[/quote]

This. You may have rebroken a healing broken bone.[/quote]

If you’re so fragile a child accidentally stepping on your foot could break you, you don’t belong on public transportation. [/quote]

How ableist of you.