Punished_Blinx posted... Here's the thing for anyone who judges a toddler's behaviour or that the parent has taken the easy method or whatever.
You are getting a positively miniscule look at their life. Their day didn't start in the shop or the restaurant. It started the very first minute they woke up. Assuming that everyone had a good night sleep to begin with.
Getting a toddler ready for the day is hard work. Feeding them is hard work. Figuring out their sleep schedule for the day is hard work. Figuring out to regulate their emotions and feelings is hard work. It is work that has to be done every single day of that childs life. There are good days and there are bad days. That's life.
If you do not have kids of your own you do not fucking know. You don't get it. Accept that.
For all you know that kid is on a leash because of ADD. For all you know that kid is in the iPad because they have autism and crowds are over stimulating.
It's easy to judge. But you don't fucking know. Shut the fuck up and move on with your life. They can't. You're just a different type of busy body know it all you're all so happy to whine about when people judge what you're going through.
But you don't know that either. Just because you may be a parent doesn't mean you know what other parents do. They might really just be crappy parents failing at raising their kids. We can only judge people by what they show to us. If a patient yells at me at work, I'm gonna look at the information in front of me and make a determination about their character.