A few minutes ago I could hear the sound of a small child crying hysterically and calling, “Mommy! Mommy NOOOO! Please wait!” I looked out my second floor window and below I saw a large, heavily pregnant woman speedwalking down the street pushing her stroller, puffing away on a cigarette, all trashed out of course. A crying little girl of about 4 was running after her but she couldn’t keep the pace of her mom’s speedwalking, who was about 10 meters in front of her. I opened the window and yelled out very loudly: “Wait for your daughter!” but she didn’t so much as glance up! What a pathetic excuse for a mother! I don’t care what a child does wrong, you don’t treat them that way, you don’t turn your back on them on a busy street or humiliate them in public; that is NOT DISCIPLINE! If my flat was on the ground floor and I didn’t have a toddler who needed supervision, I would have ran out the door after her and given her a piece of my mind. People like that shouldn’t be allowed to have children! —Wish I Didn’t See That
This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2011.
some fucking people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. fuck that pisses me off too, o.p.
some people deserve such a good smack in the fucking head,next time, call child welfare, doubt they will do much, but you will feel better for it. my 4 yr. old grand baby will never be a part of that shit. she is loved way too much, by all who meet her.
So given a 15 second window of “observation” you’re going to make a diagnosis of a stranger’s worth as a parent?
Did the phrase “mind your own fucking business” ever pop up in your day-to-day life?
Find out what the story is, THEN open your big mouth. Otherwise, it’s none of your business.
It takes a village(to mind it’s own fucking business)
And yes, I know people are going to flame me for this. Too bad. He said/she said from a window doesn’t add up to dry shit.
How many time has my mother walked away from me? MANY. She still does if we’re out shopping and I wont go. Lol.
Kids will cry if they want something that they can’t have. That could have been the situation. Constantly coddling children won’t help them.
Now, if you’ve witnessed this behaviour over and over again and the mother is being abusive then maybe call the proper place.
OP sounds a little idle to me …
Maybe she’ll learn when the kid gets snatched away because mommy wouldn’t wait up
Slightly off topic, the most scared I ever was for a child.
I was walking from the dockyard up to Brunswick where my car was, and a litle girl about 5 or 6 (all alone, no parent) came up to me and asked if I was there to pick her up. I said, ‘No darling, you really shouldn’t talk to strangers”, she immediately realized what she did wrong, eyes got real big and she took off like a bullet.
But for frig sakes I could have been the worst lowlife in existance, and nobody was around to protect her.
These are not ‘the days’ when you can take you eyes off your children, not for a second.
that’s not off topic hugo, just a very small segue
Yeah Hugo, I’m still the champion of going off topic. Nice try though.
I’m wondering about how this woman humiliated her daughter in public. I don’t see it.
I’m also confused as to why OP would be more upset about seeing a mother leave their child behind than seeing her smoke while pregnant.
It’s a common thing parents do when their kids refuse to come with them, they pretend to leave them there and a few seconds later the kid falls for it, gets worried and follows. My mother did it a thousand times to me and my siblings.
I’d be way more upset about seeing the woman smoke while pregnant, although I’m not a busy body who enjoys going out of my way to tell strangers what not to do so I still wouldn’t have said shit to her.
My guess is that this woman wasn’t smoking and just made that part up as an afterthought to make this mother appear more in the wrong. We all get mad about shit and we’ve all exaggerated things like this to get the people we’re recounting events to on our side.
And it’s way too easy to do that on an anonymous internet forum… I think a lot of bitches on here a exaggerated in this way.
True, we don’t know the whole story here but the mom had her back to the child walking down the street which, of course is child endangerment. You don’t have to coddle kids and you shouldn’t but one should keep an eye on them on a city street.
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How about a tarsier pg?
The smoking while pregnant is terrible. Is it possible though that the girl had maybe parked her but on the sidewalk and refused to move? I used to do this as a little kid and my mom/dad would say ok bye and keep walking lol as soon as they got a certain distance I was up and running to catch up. I wouldn’t recommend doing it on a dangerous street but dobt be so quick to judge, she wouldn’t have looked much better dragging a screaming child by the hand either. (if it was because the girl wanted to stop walking) and I’m not saying the mother wasn’t just a trashy slob who was making her daughter walk to far or just ignoring her, who knows.
Not that I’m condoning it but I think people need to let up on this whole smoking while pregnant thing. 20 years ago everybody did it, and before that you could smoke in the delivery room at the hospital while having your baby. I smoked cigarettes and pot during my whole pregnancy and it had no effect that I can see on my child. He was born 7lbs, his apgar score was perfect, and I lost no fluid due to smoking as the warnings claim. He is now 4, can read and spell some words, he can complete 100 pc puzzles in around 5 minutes, he is more proficient on the computer than most adults I know and hes above average in weight and height. I know I took a gamble when I smoked while pregnant and I may have just got lucky but seriously people, there are worse things to worry about in life.
“I know I took a gamble when I smoked while pregnant and I may have just got lucky but seriously people, there are worse things to worry about in life.”
Enough said.
*facepalm*
“Brawndo: it’s what plants crave, it’s got electrolytes.”
Its funny how I put the gamble part in there so that the trolls wouldn’t be able to say it for me and you found a way to use it anyway. The only reason I feel I took a gamble when I smoked is because society has made me feel that way. Oh don’t smoke when you’re pregnant, your baby will be small, premature, or worse, your amniotic fluid will dry up, the baby will be jaundiced. In my eyes alone without media influence, I just look at me and my five siblings, with who my mom smoked and we have no issues, all the 80’s kids I know that had smoking mothers with no issues. Then if I look at today’s babies, you know in the days of smoking nazis, hand sanitizers, all the chemicals in food and cleaners and what not, and I see more ADD, autism, asthma, and so on.
and let not forget gangsterism. that seems to be more prevailant than say 20 years ago too. wonder if that shit, y.j.a., has anything to do with it.
thanks troodon, makes me grin^^
Smoking pot and cigarettes while pregnant ??!?!!? You’re just the worst kind of person. Who cares about the health and LIFE of your child, at least you’ll be okay right? FFS PEOPLE.
On a somewhat related topic; my latest peeve is the ads on tv for volkswagen where the kid holds his breath and throws a tantrum until he gets what he wants. It goes on until he gets his beloved volkswagen – a boot up the arse, clip around the lughole and throw the little shitbag UNDER the first volkswagen beetling down the road, there’s something to whine about.
“Then if I look at today’s babies, you know in the days of smoking nazis, hand sanitizers, all the chemicals in food and cleaners and what not, and I see more ADD, autism, asthma, and so on.”
Clearly irrefutable proof that if we stopped discouraging smoking during pregnancy, babies would be healthier. Other changes in our environment (air quality, the industrialization of the food supply system, pollution) have nothing to do with it.
I’m sure doctors only advise not to smoke or consume alcohol during pregnancy just to jump on the cool media-driven bullshit bandwagon.
*re-facepalm*
Can you blame the woman? The little whiney brat wouldn’t shut the fuck up. Plus the mom didn’t keep her legs together and now she’s knocked up again. Maybe you can buy her kid off Kijiji if you care so much.
Oops, this post was by me and really badly written. I should have clarified that I’ve seen this mom before. Her older child is 2 and the first time I saw her, she was sprawled out on a blanket at the playground, puffing away on her cigarette while her infant slept against her legs. Her 2 year old was standing quietly next to her…reluctant to play. Her mom kept demanding she take her bucket to the sand, and when the little girl continued to stand there sadly, looking at the ground, her mom suddenly hauled off and violently biffed the bucket at the sandbox. The little girl just stood there and cried. I looked at her and said “Wow, was that really necessary?” She did nothing but give me stink eye in response so i invited the little girl to play with my child. I felt so awful for this kid….and when i looked out my wondow the other day and saw what i saw, i decided that if i see this woman mistreat her kid again i’m really going to give her a piece of my mind. I’m really tempted to call social services if i see it again. Anyway, sorry for jot clarifying earlier on my terribly written bitch.
And it pooks like she’s about 6 months pregnant……
Z – got a camera with audio & vidoe capability? Record as much as you can stand, and please, do call Child Services, the abuse the child suffers during their formative years, takes the longest to heal.
That’s so sad Z 🙁
I hate seeing this stuff and I hate hearing stories like this; it keeps me up at night. For me there’s nothing worse than thinking about little kids who cannot feel safe with their own parents.
between birth and five are the formative years. it’s good that you give a hoot Z but don’t let it keep you up at night
Calling Social Services probably won’t put the kid in a better situation. Just saying.