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All the poor woman was doing was responding to your comment to her...what should she have said? Were you really expecting her to say "oh no! She's such a cute little chatterbox - how lucky you must be!" Yes, that might have been a nicer thing to say but then you're the one who brought up that she even drives YOU crazy....I'm really not getting why this is such a huge deal.
What you are all forgetting here is that I did not say anything back to the woman. If I wanted to be immature I would have replied: "No. I'd rather have a child who speaks well than a kid no one can understand."I did not say that as it would HURT her feelings. YOU were not in the room and did not see her body language when she said it. It bothered me and I felt insulted. THAT'S ALL. I bet you half the posts from the people who are attacking me as if I have killed someone are from parents whose children were either late talkers or had speech problems and you are taking it out on me.
Right. We're ALL wrong, and you are right. No chance you are being overly sensitive, over analyzing, or looking for a opportunity to brag about your "chatterbox".
It IS hard to tell what actually happened w/o being there. Perhaps the other mom was a little rude. But perhaps your daughter was being annoying and hurt the other mom's and kid's feelings. Because you are the adult, and you did not address the issue, it falls on you.
If you are in these situations often, where you think other adults are being rude, maybe you need to look at yourself and your family and try to see how you appear to others. "She's only 2" or "He's only 3 1/2" will not be excuses forever. Kids need to be taught how to behave and how to treat other people.
All the poor woman was doing was responding to your comment to her...what should she have said? Were you really expecting her to say "oh no! She's such a cute little chatterbox - how lucky you must be!" Yes, that might have been a nicer thing to say but then you're the one who brought up that she even drives YOU crazy....I'm really not getting why this is such a huge deal.
What you are all forgetting here is that I did not say anything back to the woman. If I wanted to be immature I would have replied: "No. I'd rather have a child who speaks well than a kid no one can understand."I did not say that as it would HURT her feelings. YOU were not in the room and did not see her body language when she said it. It bothered me and I felt insulted. THAT'S ALL. I bet you half the posts from the people who are attacking me as if I have killed someone are from parents whose children were either late talkers or had speech problems and you are taking it out on me.
My post was not an attack, hopefully you didn't read something into that was not there.
I have 4 kids and none of them were late talkers nor had any speech problems. Mine were very early talkers, quite in depth talkers actually.
I've been an early childhood educator for 20 years and simply wanted to add some pertinent info to the mix, that yes indeed 2 yr olds can and do begin to learn empathy. Notice I didn't remark as to whether you were right or wrong in the situation as I don't really care about that part. However I do care that parents so often seem to think young children can't learn or do things that they are most certainly capable of learning or doing. Therefore my remarks were geared towards that.
Of course if a parent hasn't begun to teach these things, or if a child isn't quite there developmentally individually, then they probably won't understand just yet. However, an intelligent well versed child should have no problem understanding when taught.
If you are going to jokingly say things you will have to expect that so will other people. Who knows whether she was joking or not - she may be wondering the same about you. Stop analyzing it. It will not accomplish anything unless you are trying to look into your own behavior because you have no control over anyone elses.
Right. We're ALL wrong, and you are right. No chance you are being overly sensitive, over analyzing, or looking for a opportunity to brag about your "chatterbox".
It IS hard to tell what actually happened w/o being there. Perhaps the other mom was a little rude. But perhaps your daughter was being annoying and hurt the other mom's and kid's feelings. Because you are the adult, and you did not address the issue, it falls on you.
If you are in these situations often, where you think other adults are being rude, maybe you need to look at yourself and your family and try to see how you appear to others. "She's only 2" or "He's only 3 1/2" will not be excuses forever. Kids need to be taught how to behave and how to treat other people.
I was not bragging about her. I don't know why I keep responding to you. You're just doing this to be argumentative. Congratulations you are now on my ignore list. You are soooooooooo extremely annoying. You need to learn when to quit badgering me. Also I'm not going to see your replies anymore as you are going on my ignore list. My ignore list is reserved for people I don't want to talk to on this forum or in real life for that matter.
Why don't you take a good hard look at yourself and try to figure out why you find it so fun to critize me. There must be something you are lacking in your own life.
I wish your parents had taught you how not to be so annoying.
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I was not bragging about her. I don't know why I keep responding to you. You're just doing this to be argumentative. Congratulations you are now on my ignore list. You are soooooooooo extremely annoying. You need to learn when to quit badgering me. Also I'm not going to see your replies anymore as you are going on my ignore list. My ignore list is reserved for people I don't want to talk to on this forum or in real life for that matter.
Why don't you take a good hard look at yourself and try to figure out why you find it so fun to critize me. There must be something you are lacking in your own life.
I wish your parents had taught you how not to be so annoying.
I don't know why you keep responding rbk0305 since you're just trying to get to me. I honestly don't see your replies you're on my ignore list. All I see is your name in blue and NOTHING underneath it. Just the way I like it.
I don't know why you keep responding rbk0305 since you're just trying to get to me. I honestly don't see your replies you're on my ignore list. All I see is your name in blue and NOTHING underneath it. Just the way I like it.
Have a nice day and quit wasting your time.
Translation: *hands over ears* lalalala I can't hear you
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