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.