Are some mothers really so stupid?

pukkamum

fabforty wrote: »

I was getting off at the next stop plus I had my own grizzly baby and miserable mithering toddler to deal with. The bus was full of commuters heading home (myself included) and perhaps taking responsibility for a stranger's baby was not a priority for them - it certainly wasn't for me. If that sounds selfish, so be it....

Well isn't that whats wrong with this world, that so many people have an I'm alright jack attitude, I don't want to help a stranger, not my problem, why should I?
Perhaps the fact that you had a grizzly baby and a miserable toddler should make you more inclined to help out a fellow mother?

sexylulubelle

pukkamum wrote: »

So you seriously think that leaving the baby downstairs sleeping in a pram whilst she is upstairs, means she should not have kids?
Jeez I have seen much worse irresponsibility from supposedly very good parents.
Shame on not one person saying as I would have, I'll keep an eye on the pram for you, or will let you know if baby cries.
We are so quick to condemn yet not so quick to offer help, perhaps the other kids had been mithering all day to sit upstairs and she had had enough.

Ok so in that case it will be fine to leave my sleeping child in a car ( I will just ask a very kind hearted passerby to check on MY child because really that person should feel the need to be responsible for MY child???? While I nip into asda's for a pint of milk or fags or false eye lashes or whatever :mad: if you chose to have 3 kids or 10 YOU as their parent look after all of them in a responsible manner! Enough said!:cool:

fabforty

pukkamum wrote: »

She was right in a way who on earth is going to take a baby off a bus? The mother could be sat 2 rows behind.
Just how many babies have been taken from the street if left outside a shop?

Or somebody could have watched the mother go upstairs, wait a while until other passengers who had seen her get on had also got off the bus and then walked off with the baby. It happened once with a passengers luggage. He left his suitcase downstairs and when he came back down later it was missing. I saw the man who took it, but I had just got on the bus and had no idea that it didn't belong to him.

Mojisola

Carl31 wrote: »

She was in the mail. I dont think the bullying is the real issue here, i think mummy wants to launch a new career

If she has been using her son to get publicity for herself, that's very reprehensible.

Person_one

Mojisola wrote: »

If she has been using her son to get publicity for herself, that's very reprehensible.

Have you seen the Mail article?

4 pictures of her with the child (where she's still in full KP makeup) and 6 of her in costume posing.

Putting your kid's face in the Daily Mail is rarely in their best interests, it does sound as though the school has failed in its duty but I'm not sure how reliable the source is...

Mojisola

Person_one wrote: »

Have you seen the Mail article?

4 pictures of her with the child (where she's still in full KP makeup) and 6 of her in costume posing.

Putting your kid's face in the Daily Mail is rarely in their best interests, it does sound as though the school has failed in its duty but I'm not sure how reliable the source is...

No, I was looking at a local news report - one tasteful photo and one of the boobs.

pukkamum

sexylulubelle wrote: »

Ok so in that case it will be fine to leave my sleeping child in a car ( I will just ask a very kind hearted passerby to check on MY child because really that person should feel the need to be responsible for MY child???? While I nip into asda's for a pint of milk or fags or false eye lashes or whatever :mad: if you chose to have 3 kids or 10 YOU as their parent look after all of them in a responsible manner! Enough said!:cool:

I didn't once say it was fine, the point I was making was about the attitude and behaviour of the other passengers on the bus, the whole car thing is completely different, I could call upstairs if thebaby was crying, I couldn't do that in asda.
But that's just semantics.

Mojisola

pukkamum wrote: »

I didn't once say it was fine, the point I was making was about the attitude and behaviour of the other passengers on the bus, the whole car thing is completely different, I could call upstairs if thebaby was crying, I couldn't do that in asda.

But if you were the mother, would you be happy to rely on strangers to tell you that the baby was crying or that someone had picked up the baby and walked off the bus with him/her?

fabforty

pukkamum wrote: »

Well isn't that whats wrong with this world, that so many people have an I'm alright jack attitude, I don't want to help a stranger, not my problem, why should I?
Perhaps the fact that you had a grizzly baby and a miserable toddler should make you more inclined to help out a fellow mother?

I am more than happy to help a fellow mother, or any other person, stranger or not where possible and where necessary.

However as I was about to get off with my children, minding her baby wasn't a possibility, was it? And minding a strangers' baby so that she could pander to the wishes of her two older children, is hardly a necessity.

My son always wants to sit upstairs on the bus, but when his baby brother is with us, he cant. It's as simple as that.

pukkamum

fabforty wrote: »

Or somebody could have watched the mother go upstairs, wait a while until other passengers who had seen her get on had also got off the bus and then walked off with the baby. It happened once with a passengers luggage. He left his suitcase downstairs and when he came back down later it was missing. I saw the man who took it, but I had just got on the bus and had no idea that it didn't belong to him.

Do you truly think that this is a plausible scenario?
That a baby snatcher happened to be on the bus at that point and already knew what he was going to do after he got the baby, and he knew that not one other person on that bus knew the baby wasn't his or hers, that the bus driver wouldn't realise, that the mother wouldn't see him get off and make the bus stop.