My post 102 that you originally addressed was about tired or hungry 2 year olds. You won’t quiet them. It’s not possible. Very young children can only tell you what they need NOW. You can’t reason with an overly tired toddler or one that’s hungry. You can’t reason with young children at all. They have no concept that Mom has to get diapers. Or laundry soap. They are babies. Life is what it is. And there are those, like the man in the story, that make it that much harder.
And my post in response was about the fact that not all parents do anything about their tired or hungry kids. You can quiet a hungry kid, you give them food, which any halfway decent parent has some of in the diaper bag. Tired kids are harder, largely depends on what you’re transporting them in and if they’ll sleep in it. And then of course there’s always the possibility of removing the kid from the situation, like netmilsmom said in post 16. There’s nothing about parenthood that says everybody should have to listen to your kid cry. There’s always something you can do. And there are parents, again not saying you not making this personal, that literally do NOTHING they just let the kid cry no attempt to fix the problem or comfort the kid, you’re not even sure they know the kid is crying. And those are the parent that really make people mad, and make people less patient with the good parents that try.
I have never felt I had to slap a crying 2 year old in Walmart. However, I have been run my cart into the large posteriors of people who block the aisles 2 or 3 wide, to talk loudly for 5 minutes about whether they should buy dinosaur or star shaped chicken nuggets for that 2 year old!!