Cuz someone was trying to tell HER what to do, and we can't have that now, can we. I remember a couple of years ago, I was shopping at Target, and came across a child, probably no more than 6 or 7, all alone in a aisle. I asked her where her mother was, and she said, "Over there". Well, her mother was 2 aisles over, her view completely blocked from her child. I went over to her and calmly mentioned that it might not be a good idea to let her child be so far away from her. I just barely finished speaking, and she started screaming at me to mind my own business, SHE knew what she was doing, SHE had it under control, etc. I just backed away (didn't want to turn my back on her), and left. What can ya do? I probably should have taken the child by the hand and led her away for a few minutes to see what the mother would do when she couldn't find her child. But, I know how that would go.
Oh yeah. Better off just watching the kind via peripheral vision from a safe distance. Just to ensure the kid's ok until Grizzly Mom decides to forage back towards her cub.
The mother looks like a smug little dumbass who won’t listen to anyone which is likely why she was having babies while still a child.
The mother looks like a smug little dumbass who won’t listen to anyone which is likely why she was having babies while still a child.
My wife and I were walking up a hill, beside us a family was out doing things in the front yard, their three year old was wandering out into the street and I could hear a big truck putting on the brakes as it went down the hill.
I said as casually as I could “Your toddler is toddling out into the street.”
The mother, rather than running after her child, started screaming at ME “I AM NOT A BAD MOTHER!!!!!”
I replied “irrespective of your skill as a mother, your child IS wandering out into the street.”
She got her child. I got a dirty look.
Apparently the mother you are talking about never heard of Adam Walsh.
In hindsight it would have been fitting if you had told the kid that her mother wanted her to play hide-and-seek and she should go hide in the toy department, then go talk to store security about the mother.