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delalluvia:
OK, I'm just blowing off some steam here.

I just came from a visit to my doctor.  Now this doctor is not a general practitioner and not a pediatrician.  He is a specialist in digestive system problems.  Now I'm not saying children don't get issues with their digestion, but it's a lot less common than adults and elderly people getting them.  So, the office is full of health magazines, AARP magazines and Golf Digest.

I'm sitting in the waiting room with other people, watching the news on TV.  In comes a mother with a young child - about 8 or 9 years old.  She checks in with the nurses while the boy sits down.  He is engrossed with the news, showing as it is, the horrible disasters of the tornados across the southeast.  A high school has been hit!  Teenagers are being dragged from the rubble and....

The mother snaps the TV off.

I'm like - hello!  I was watching that.

She sits down with the child and starts to look at a childrens book with him.

A few minutes later, the TV - apparently automated - comes back on.  The mother instantly jumps to her feet, goes to the nurses desk and asks that the TV either be turned to children's programming or turned off.

She had absolutely no consideration for the wants and desires of the other adults in the room.  A man and I exchanged amazed glances.

Obviously the welfare her child was her primary concern instead of courtesy and the rest of us just better like it.

 >:( >:( >:( >:(  Don't be a Parent Nazi.  >:( >:( >:( 

jpwagoneer1964:
The mother was merely censoring her childs viewing, something she should have every right to do. Had you no consideration for the right of the mother to determine what here  child watches? You can always catch the new later.

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on March 01, 2007, 08:24:31 pm ---The mother was merely censoring her childs viewing, something she should have every right to do. Had you no consideration for the right of the mother to determine what here  child watches? You can always catch the new later.

--- End quote ---

She has every right to censor what her child watches.  She has no right to do so when it interferes with other people's rights.  She wasn't in her home.  She was in a public office.  Sorry, she wants to censor what her child watches, go wait outside. 

jpwagoneer1964:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on March 01, 2007, 08:34:11 pm ---She has every right to censor what her child watches.  She has no right to do so when it interferes with other people's rights.  She wasn't in her home.  She was in a public office.  Sorry, she wants to censor what her child watches, go wait outside. 

--- End quote ---
Just goes to show when your narcissistic it just to much trouble to think of others. In a situation like this when children are likely to be present we should be kind and yield to their (parents) wishes.

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on March 01, 2007, 08:41:17 pm ---Just goes to show when your narcissistic it just to much trouble to think of others. In a situation like this when children are likely to be present we should be kind and yield to their (parents) wishes.

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Well, I think I pointed out, that is was UNLIKELY that children would be in that office.  I think the mother should be kind and yield to that fact that she and her child were in the minority there and not insist the office cowtow to her wants.

In general though, I think it depends.  Children nowadays have been raised to the level of little gods on earth where everyone else should step aside for them.  And I do, in many circumstances, but not in all of them.

For example, on another board I go to had a long discussion on whether gay pride people should be allowed in city parades.  The parents of the discussion were entirely against it because - well, gay pride people were often 'obscene', dressing suggestively or saying sexual things or cross dressing and that was just entirely too adult for the children observing the parade.  After all, it was 'family' event and such things - and people - should not be allowed.

We had to talk long and hard to finally convince these Parent Nazis that a city parade was a PUBLIC event, not a FAMILY event and like it or not, gay people were part of the PUBLIC too.

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