what is the matter with people

[fruitsalad]

I was out shopping today there was a baby in a pushchair with what I presume was her parent the adult had a thick hoodie on with the hood pulled up I might add, and the poor baby probably about 11 months old was sat in the pushchair with a thin t shirt on no shoes only socks its luckily it had long sleeves on the t shirt even though you could see how thin the material was, dont these parents stop and think that poor child is just sitting there the adult is at least walking to keep themselves warm. I felt like saying something but would of probably got a mouthful of abuse and told to mind my own business, but I came very close.

[emmie]

to say something would elicit a mouthful i am sure from the miscreant. I have seen this endless times, baby in pram with little or no covering in the poorest conditions, with the parent! wrapped up, can't understand it at all.

[naomi24]

Idiots!

[emmie]

idiots indeed naomi, i could say worse, but that would contravene the rules...

[albaqwerty]

I was going to suggest that maybe the mother had just been given baby back from estranged father. However, even if that was the case, take the child home and get it dressed properly for the weather condition.

Years ago we needed a dog licence............

[naomi24]

When the snow was around a month or two back, I saw a man, wrapped up for winter, carrying a little girl wearing just a thin little dress and cardigan and no shoes and socks into Tesco. It makes me so mad! It was flipping freezing!

[top_driver]

i tell ya, i would never have my kid go cold, he looks like a star with the coat i put on him, ha, if you want to say something, you can say, "is that baby not cold", or something like that

[emmie]

same here, seen parents wrapped and warm but the child dressed inappropriate to the weather conditions. i could quite cheerfully slap some parents, when they yell, threaten and generally are abusive to their children, little ones who are in distress need help, a cuddle, and not an ugly tirade from someone who should know better.

[emmie]

top driver, have you even done that, said something to a person, parent, likely you will come off the worse. I have intervened a number of times, once when a mother was giving hell to a little child, for no reason, bullying cow, and i was the one who got the foul mouthed tirade.

[top_driver]

em10 i'll be honest, nope, never said anything, it would end up in war, ha,. well at least you tried

[Smowball]

These things make me so cross! Last summer when it was really hot one day there was a baby in a pram with no umbrella, clearly sunburnt!

[friedgreentomato]

we have a struggle to keep clothes on my nieces - you only saw them for a moment you don't know what else is going on.

I do wish people would stop jumping the gun without having all the facts.

[emmie]

it was on a bus, and the mother, i use that term loosely, was giving absolute hell to this little child, no more than 3/4 years old, who seemed absolutely terrified. I know one doesn't know the full story, but didn't see how this was right at all. I only asked her to call down a bit, oh dear..

[chaptazbru]

I once glared at a woman who belted her pretty little girl so hard she fell to the ground. I was just going to say something when she said to me 'what the f*ck are you looking at you **** ' Horrible woman - poor little child. I saw a policeman round the corner and told him and described her, he said he'd go and look, hope he found her.

[top_driver]

ah, you should have said would you shut the f up and leave the kid alone, ha that would set her back too, ha, i don't think i would say anything, unless i was really in the mood for it

[emmie]

friedgreen, perhaps one doesn't know the whole story, but i am afraid that there are people out there, and in terrifying numbers it seems from recent news reports, who don't give a crap about their children, their welfare, life. I think it's a sad day when seeing an abused child you walk away and do nothing.

[Smowball]

2shortplanks, you're right, what is wrong with some people??