{"id":5942,"date":"2012-07-31T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2019-01-04T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T11:42:28","slug":"why-are-people-rude-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/why-are-people-rude-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are people rude to kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>As a parent there are a fair few things that people do that really irritate and annoy me. Number one on my list are people who are rude to kids. Yesterday a thirty something woman barged past my kids without saying &#8216;excuse me&#8217; or waiting for them to move and knocked over my two year old in her quest to get to a table in Starbucks. I wouldn&#8217;t have minded so much if she had apologised but she had the cheek to look turn and look annoyed as he let out a wail. I was about to let rip when a very nice man gave her a right old telling off. She still didn&#8217;t apologise but I felt vindicated as half of Starbucks shot her evil looks.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhich leads me nicely to my next gripe &#8211; people who throw evil looks and make tutting sounds at kids. Now I totally understand if you&#8217;re out at night somewhere nice and someone&#8217;s children are wailing and crawling under your table and annoying you BUT getting annoyed at kids for being noisy on the street, or at lunchtime in a kid friendly restaurant is another thing entirely. In Giraffe (extremely kid friendly) last week I watched as a man on another table throw a series of very nasty looks at two under 5&#8217;s doing nothing more than enjoying their lunch the way under 5&#8217;s do.\r\n\r\nAfter his third look, I feared for his life as the mum turned around and shouted so loudly that he practically choked on his pasta! As amusing as this was I wanted to applaud this mum&#8217;s guts because I know how hard it is to stand up for yourself and confront someone when you have small kids in tow. The same thing re: nasty looks and tutting often happens to me and other mums at the checkout in my local Sainsburys. I understand that a crying child grates on the nerves, however, instead of being rude I wish people would have a little compassion for the child, who&#8217;s probably crying because he&#8217;s tired and fed up like the rest of us.\r\n\r\nBut what are your experiences? What things annoy you when you&#8217;re out and about with your kids and how do you handle it? Let me know.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a parent there are a fair few things that people do that really irritate and annoy me. Number one on my list are people who are rude to kids. 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