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On what planet do you think it is okay to
let your just learning how to walk 12ish month old daughter entertain herself on the top stair of a moving escalator at the mall while you talk on your cell phone!!!!!! I saw this teen mother of the year at Macy's today at lunch time. I was so stunned I just stopped and stared as I tried to comprehend what I was seeing. A sales lady saw my horrified expression and where I was looking and hurried over to move them along. Sales lady and I exchanged a disbelieving look and then I gave the teen mom my most judgemental stare. Wow.
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Re: On what planet do you think it is okay to
Matthew Kevin
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I would imagine the "teen mother" portion of that post would explain a lot. I realize there are plenty of mature teenage mothers out there, but I suspect the vast majority are not the most observant, or common sensical, folks out there.?
Of course, there are plenty of non-teenage mothers out there who would do something equally stupid, sadly. ?
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I love how you pointed out that she was a teen mom, twice.
Last time I checked, being a suck mother does not discriminate against age.
thank you , i was just about to say something very close to this. did you ask this lady how old she was before posting this or are you assuming?? being a bad mother and making poor judgement calls is not limited to teen moms. i was one and trust me, i take much offense to your post as i would have NEVER have let this happen with my son when i was 19.
Aside from K's comment (which is spot-on...kudos for doing absolutely *** besides gossiping about it)...
You're judging someone on the way it looks? That's moronic. I'm 27, but could easily pass for 18 with no makeup.
Like the other ladies have said, age has no bearing on stupidity. You've just proved that for us.
1st - why do you need to describe what age the woman was? Why not just say "I saw a MOM at the mall". Who cares if she's a teen mom or a 35 year old mom?
2nd - Who cares if the mom was watching her? If you thought that the child was in danger, why wouldn't you say something? I risked getting my asss beat by speaking out about a mother who did not put her infant child in a car seat and I'd do it again because I cared more about the safety of that child then I did about my own safety. Instead of being judgemental and doing NOTHING about a possibly dangerous situation, how about you do something about it next time.
And this statement somehow condones the lack of action on your part?
If you want to be the mature one, step up and do it. But you sure as shiit haven't shown yourself to be capable of it so far.
If your description would have been the same no matter what the age, why even bother adding it? It's irrevelant to the story, if you look at it that way.
You're the one judging.
Right, this sounds like just a description.
Right, this sounds like just a description.
Yeah, not judgy at all. Especially that last sentence.
I bet you'll turn into a crotchety old lady who stares at people in the park.
If you weren't judging, you would have not pointed it out twice.
GTFO.
Well I agree teen or not there are some stupid people out there with children. A teenager on her phone only added to the drama of the story but I don't think you meant anything bad against young mothers, it was just a description. I do agree that if it is possible to woddle over and say something or pull the baby out of danger you always should. I have been seeing so much of this lately, maybe my new mommie eyes are kicking in or something. I had to stop my car driving home this weekend because I noticed a 1 year old at the end of a driveway along the edge of the road and no mommy or daddy in sight. I stopped, picked up the child and walked towards the house. Mommy came running right our, shicked her baby got out. I handed him over and said she was luckly the child didn't make it out to the road and that I had no interest in taking or hurting her child and that I had to seriously consider wether or not I was going to call CPS and I left. She was crying. I'm not all that nice to begin with but that baby could have seriously been hurt so mean or not I was not sorry to see her cry.
I have also started lecturing daddy on watching the baby. I can't tell you how many times I see a dad walking through a parking lot with a bumper hieght child trailing behid him. UGH! hold its hand, pick it up or at the very least let the child walk in front of you where you can watch! I have seen moms do this too but 8 out of 10 times its a man (just what I see people I am not attacking daddies). I know DH will be great at this he seems very protective already.
Breaks my heart and angers me to see people taking careless risks with the most precious gift in this world. There are people who would give their lives for the opportunity to be a parent and others who don't blink twice at the responsibility.
yuck sorry for all the errors. I'm multi-tasking at work
Or it may not have been her kid. When I was younger I would take my little cousins with me places...I'm sure ppl probably thought I was the mother. Teenage mom really has nothing to do with it!
However I still would not have done that. Mother or not!
I'm going to be the mom that people give evil looks to just because I'm baby faced.
Not to say that you are like this, but my sister used to get evil looks on the play ground with her 3 children because people thought she was a young mom. She used to get upset that it was so hard to make friends with the other moms because they thought that being 30 was a prerequisite for being a good mother. She is 28, just has a baby face!
Way to make all teen moms seem like MORONS!
This TEEN mom OF TWO would never use such poor judgement....
But apprentley all of are selfish and ignornat now.
Way to make all teen moms seem like MORONS!
This TEEN mom OF TWO would never use such poor judgement....
But apprentley all of us are selfish and ignornat now.
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Wow there sure a lot of judgemental people on here. Get over yourselves.
Hopeful, I hear what you're saying and would have been just as shocked as you were!
Did you even read the OP? We're judgemental? She stood there and watched a child be in a situation where it could have gotten very hurt...because she was too busy judging the woman for being a teen mom. You're totally right, that makes sense....she's not judgemental at all.