Mother Thinks It's Funny.

[Sqad]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/toddler-takeover-hilarious-moment-little-11039096

Hilarious, aaaargh! moment........
Little boy is well behaved but as for the girl, she has embarrassed her mother in my opinion and yet mother is laughing. An interesting interview ruined by an ill disciplined child.
Perhaps a smack?

[ummmm]

I didn't say you were lying. I said I don't believe you. I don't believe any child of two has clear memories of day to day things like being told how to behave in public. A two year old would barely understand what they are being told.

I have clear memories of being little but not day to day things.

[murraymints]

well I left that home before I was 2 years of age.. and I remember very clearly being under a table , lifting myself up by clinging to the legs and walking out... to the screams of my mum at the time !

[murraymints]

and likewise I was very ware of the need to be good in company....even then !

[cassa333]

The mother must have been told to ignore the girl when the interview started.

Otherwise any self respecting parent would have stopped her. When the girl went round in front of the mother she could easily of taken hold of her hand and got her to be still (relatively) easily depending on the temperament of the child.

[murraymints]

aware ^

[murraymints]

cassa once it started it would have been very difficult to stop without an embarassing battle of wills I think.. very uncomfortable viewing in my opinion

[andy-hughes]

The way I saw it, this mum does not encourage her daughter to behave in the way she has taught her son to be behave.

If she had, she would have said "Excuse me a moment ... Iris, don't climb on there please ... sorry, you were saying ..." and Iris would have stopped because she has learned to do as she is told.

The mother completely ignored her daughter, and her daughter behaved as ignored children do, by amusing herself.

I don't think the mother was embarrassed at all.

As to the appropriateness of bringing the children into the studio - that's always a difficult call, but as advised, no damage was done.

[naomi24]

Ummmm, I have vivid recollections of being two.

As for the little girl, the only thing such indulgence teaches is that she can do as she pleases – and she’ll grow up finding she can’t. Poor kid.

[Sqad]

Andy

"I don't think the mother was embarrassed at all. "

I think that you are probably correct.......and there lies the irony.

[jennyjoan]

The day I made my Holy Communion - mother was taking me to get a photo done. When I was walking down the road my veil caught onto the handlebars of a big bike and ripped it all before the photo. That's a memory of being 7 but I too recall being on a big table with a consultant telling my mother I was deaf - was only 3 then. My friend's dad died when she was 10 or 11 - she can't remember dad at all.

[Mamyalynne]

Alastair Stewart handled the situation professionally.

Didn't detract from the interview much for me.

[ummmm]

Naomi...I have flash memories. I don't remember what my mother cooked for dinner that evening though.

Sqad...disgusting post!

[zebo]

Without wanting to get involved in the discussion regarding this interview, I think it's wrong to label as a 'child hater' someone who expects a child to behave as the circumstances dictate. I don't 'hate' childrren but as a mother and grandmother I have always expected by lot to behave properly. We recently took our 6 year old granddaughter to church and were surprised at the number of people who complimented her on sitting quietly.

[ummmm]

But this wasn't a 6 year old. She was a toddler.

And Sqad has on numerous occasions expressed his disliike for his own children and grandchildren.

[FinnyMick]

I would have given her a smack. It is what lionesses do in the wild with naughty cubs.

[Mamyalynne]

I didn't see what was removed so not sure how my name has got mentioned.

ITV invited a Mother and two children into the studio - I doubt they were at all surprised at the outcome.

Child was inquisitive and adventurous but not loud or disruptive.

[ummmm]

Finny - that's because they can't speak!!

[ummmm]

Mams - Sqad blamed your eyesight!