What a bitch! She definatly doesn’t have kids! Wait until she does and then she’ll be sayin otherwise! I applaud all of you moms who do brave it out there with your kids and even if you do make a scene once an awhile that’s life and motherhood. Good luck this holiday season! :)

Not that my kids are anything close to the terrors you apparently think all children ARE, but I would LOVE to know exactly what you WOULD “do about it” if a small child was making noises in a store. Honestly. Enlighten me.

It’s called “freedom,” honey, and I’ll bring my children anywhere I please. If you don’t like it, refer to your number ten.

The title is very fitting. First - not every child behaves poorly in public. Yes, there are some - but not all… and my guess would be that not even the majority. Second - in order for children to learn out to behave in public, they have to be in public. You may be limiting your “no children rule” only to shopping experiences, but there are some parents (a lot?) that enjoy shopping. And even if we didn’t enjoy it we would still need to do some shopping. Not everything can realistically be purchased on-line. People who have children tend to have more expenses than those that don’t and wasting money on shipping just because there are people in the stores that are so limited in their thinking, lacking in patience and just plain full of themselves that they are bothered by the presence of chilren is absurd! YOU are the one that is bothered - remove yourself from the situation and do YOUR shopping online.

Thank you so much for this too truthful article that suburban mothers everywhere are going to cringe at!! Get a clue mothers, your kids and your lack of control on these kids make shopping hell for the rest of us.

I love the Childless Bitch. Can I get her email address? I think we could be friends!

(C’mon Moms. You gotta admit. Our little rugrats can make us insane. So pity the poor childless people without the acquired resistance we get from repeated exposure.)

How I long to hang out with my single friends over lattes and roll my eyes at the bratty kid running circles the next table.

Funny stuff.

This is absurd. As a mom, I have enough to worry about than what a single person thinks of my child’s bahavior. Get over yourself.

I’m sorry if your bragging about being single and your life is going so great, why the heck are you even on a moms website you do not belong here! You haven’t been blessed with a lil baby and really don’t deserve to as well! Go find a good party website. Enjoy!!!

Why or perhaps HOW do these children make your shopping “hell”? Seriously? Are they bothering you personally?

It’s one thing if you have or have had an issue with a certain child or lack of parenting in a social situation in particular (I would ask you to address that in the proper way) but to lump every “family” into one category and tell us all to not shop in public is insane.

Now with that said, I personally LOVE to shop by myself without my children. I do have a great time. Much easier to get things done and focus on the task (or fun) at hand. However, being a military mom I don’t always have the luxury of having my husband home and going places without my children. Yes, I could hire a babysitter but that could get VERY expensive every time I wanted to go by Target or Kroger.

I suppose since you are single and don’t have anything else to do but drink then you can pick up all of my stuff for me. I’ll leave you a list. Let me know when you’ll come by and get it. I’ll be all snuggled in my bed with my children.

Ok, so how about let’s just get realistic? I hope you get to feeling better and find the real root of your anger. A positive and thoughtful attitude will make you a much more pleasing person.

Kudos to the author. Never has a more truthful article been written. I know I am sick and tired to death of trying to shop and having to hear the annoying, high pitched squawking of a kid while its mother just ignores it. You may be able to tune out your kid’s annoying voice, but the rest of us actually, *GASP* find it irritating and shouldn’t have to put up with it. So, YOU get over yourself. Teach your DNA replication to be quiet in public or else take it outside.

Sweetie, you need to check yourself into a retirement community….there you can live out your days child-free (well except for at the holidays when they will let children in to parade around in their Halloween costumes, to sing Christmas caroles, and for an Easter egg hunt). Then again, you probably have issues with seniors as well. After all, they move more slowly than younger folks, are budget conscious so they seek out deals like the Early Bird Special, and I’m sure you would find no value in their first-hand recounting of historical events. Plus, they love to talk about their grandkids…guess you’d have to develop a set of “rules” for that, too.

Here’s a better idea. Become an agoraphobic and lock yourself in your own house forever if not for your own peace of mind then to spare the rest of the world from your chronic bitching.

People,
Don’t be that bitter towards this woman. Besides, in a few years she will probably be eating her words and taking her children into the shopping malls and annoying old versions of her. But in all honesty, this letter does sound very familiar. I thought that when I was young, single and childless. But now that I have my family I couldn’t imagine having those thoughts. She’ll change, and hopefully for the better.
I do wonder though, if my sister happened to write that letter, it sounds like something she’d say….! Ha!Ha!

To the lady who doesn’t care what strangers think of your child’s behavior: he or she is not going to be a child forever. The whole point is not whether some random schmoe is irritated by squealing. The point is that you’re raising up an ADULT who knows how to behave and control himself in public, which means you need to reinforce good behavior consistently and do your best to quell (or at least not reinforce) bad behavior even if you’re busy or tired. If you don’t have time for that, maybe you should’ve stuck with house plants.

This is to the person who said “Teach your DNA replication to bascically be quiet out in public”
That’s quite the nerve. Your one of those really annoying people that stand right behind you gabbbing it up on your cell phone and I have to be bothered by your voice. My child has every right to talk in public places if that makes you unsatisfied than you remove yourself from me and my lovely chlid’s space.

The only people who would find this post “infuriating” are those women who think their precious darlings’antics are adorable, or excusable because they’re “just kids.” Good parents don’t take tired, cranky, out-of-control kids shopping on the busiest shopping day of the year.
Furthermore, yes you can teach them how to behave in public without taking them out in public.

Why take offense to this woman’s article? If parents properly supervised their children in public, then other people wouldn’t have the opportunity to get stressed out by being near unruly behavior. Every time I go out in public I have to listen to screaming kids. It doesn’t matter where I go, there they are running around and screaming. I rarely see a parent control their child or better yet, leave the premises.

I agree with everything in this article. But the author neglected two very important rules:

11. While in line with your spawn, do not go out of your way to show off. By this, I mean don’t stand there saying “Who’s cute? You’re cute! Look at you! My goodness, who’s the cutest widdle babykins?” while not-so-subtly glancing at the people behind you to make damn sure they’re paying attention to you. You’re only doing this so that the person behind you will say something about how “cute” your kid is. You are attention whoring. All this is going to do is make me ignore you all the more. And don’t act all offended when the people you’re showing off to just ignore you. They don’t think you’re special just because you squirted out a kid, and neither do I.

12. Your kids and their freaking Heely shoes can go to hell. You don’t care one bit that your crotchfruit rolling around on those damn things could bump into someone and hurt them, do you? Of course you don’t, because “They’re just kiiiiids, and it’s cuuuuuuuute.” No, it’s not. And trust me, if the little demon ever bumps into me skating around like a moron in a public place, I will not hesitate to give him the biggest verbal tongue lashing he’s ever had in his life.

Amen Sister! It’s high time that some of the “parents” out there teach their children how to behave in public! Too many people abdicate all responsibility and want to be their kid’s “friend” instead of “parent.” You go Girl!!