The only advice I want to give parents with kids when they are screaming in the supermarket..is "Are you going to shut him up or do you want me too."
Didn't look at the source until I'd finished reading the story.
That being said, there are many nosy, butinski types of folks out there, who think they know it all...I ran into one of these folks many years ago, and if her boyfriend had not wisely removed her from the situation, she might be sporting a permanently lopsided head...here is what happened...
My mom was in the middle stages of Alzheimers, and I had been taking care of her in her home, in California, with my hubby back in Washington running our home and taking care of our son, who was a teen-ager...I spent most of my time for a few years caring for mom, with sporadic trips home to Washington...
Finally, we made the decision to move her up to Washington, buy a bigger house, so we could care for her in our own home, and she would be with her family...
So we loaded up her house, my hubby driving the Ryder Truck and I loaded mom and her dog into the van, and off we went for the big move...
Any kind of changes upset the elderly, but its especially difficult for Alzheimers patients...mom was pretty irritable about the move...when we got to a rest stop, I took mom to the bathroom, and on the way back to the van, mom saw some people(This nosy dame and her trucker boyfriend), and I guess she thought she would bend their ear about her plight...so to attract their attention, she threw herself down in the grass right in front of them, and started yelling and screaming...
My husband and I had to pick mom up, and forcefully escort her back to the van...this dame shouted out to us 'Well, if you werent so mean to her, she wouldnt act up like that'...
Well, I was just stunned...I had been taking excellent loving care of my mother, for the last few years, my family had willingly sacrificed to accomodate her, and we were moving her up to live with us, not dump her in a nursing home....Well, I let loose with a string of expletives, that I did not realize I was capable of uttering....and then I had to urge to leap at her, and strangle her...at which point her boyfriend wisely grabbed her by the arm, and told her to mind her own business, and dragged her to his truck....
Unfortunately, there are probably many more like her out there, those who think they can understand a situation, they have never experienced and wont hesitate to offer their advice, wanted or not...