My daughter performed in an athletic show last night. The parents sit on bleacher behind their kid's school. Just my luck a family with two little ones sit behind me and my husband and the one is screaming a blood curdling scream. She finally calms down but every couple minutes either kicks my husband's back or mine while sitting on one of her parent's laps. This goes on during the whole show. I sit at the very front edge of the bleacher and lean forward to avoid getting kicked.I then feel a very hard kick and my hair being pulled out of my head. I had enough and turn around to the parents who say they are sorry. Then some woman sitting behind me ,but 4 or 5 people down gets involved. She starts saying" It's just a baby" So I ignore her. Then she says it over and over till I turn around. She sticks her neck out and says it again. I had enough told her not to give me any crap and then her and her family start speaking in Spanish.

How annoying! Too bad you didn't offer to switch seats w/the lady who says "It's just a baby!" Then she could experience the fun of random feet in her back throughout a whole show.



Very difficult situation. You didn't turn and yell at the baby, you just turrned around to the parents. Sorry - I know what a damper that could put on things!

That is so rude! I think you handled it much better than I would have. I would have probably made an ass out of myself once the other person stuck their nose in it!

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That is terrible if my children were acting like that when they were younger we would have got up & left. Thier is nothing I hate worse than being kicked in the back or my hair being pulled. I am so sorry that happened.

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It is just a baby and that baby doesn't know not to kick and pull hair BUT....the parents should. Why weren't they paying better attention to her and keeping her from kicking? Just rude, parents like that are only worried about themselves. As for the lady sticking her nose in....she's allowed to have her opinion but she should never have said anything, IMO. That only makes matters worse.

I'm so sorry you had an unpleasant experience. I think you did the best you could considering the situation. I am annoyed at the other woman sticking her nose in where it didn't belong and then the further insult of speaking in spanish. I am trilingual and only remember once doing that. I asked my daughter in a taxi in NYC for some sented hand lotion because I was in the front and our taxi driver was in dire need of a bath. I think it is highly insultive to use another language around people. If you have something to say that you don't want anyone to know just wait until you are in a private place! Sorry - I remember another time I spoke in a native tongue. I was in Europe and taking a taxi to the airport. The driver and other passenger knew each other and the passenger was talking to the driver and discussing the affair he was having. When we got to the airport I thanked dthem, and tol him to have a good flight and good luck with his situation in French which is what they were speaking. The look on their faces was priceless!!

You showed great restraint. It was extremely rude of both the parents and the other lady. I would have gotten up and moved however if that was not possible I would have said "Could you please have your child stop kicking me? It is distracting and sometimes it hurts."
But then I am that way. I don't know if it would have done any good. It's too bad people are so selfish and inconsiderate.
I never let my son kick people. I don't care if he/she is just a baby. A baby sometimes cries, poops or makes noise or runs around. A baby does not have to kick people and the parents are morons. If their child was upset or tired or hungry or just being annoying it was their responsibility to leave altogether or go to a different area.

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I really have to give a high five for handling very well way better than I would of been able to. I would of told her after the 3rd time feeling her kid kick me excuse, but if you don't mind your child is kicking me and it's been 3 times could you sit him by himself or make sure he doesn't continue and if that didn't go well I would of been very nasty and if she gave me too much crap I would have been ready to kick her and ask her how did it feel and if that other chick got involved I would of hit her too. I think when it comes to things like these I am one of those people whose tolerance is none. I guess sometimes is good and sometimes is bad, but I find it better for myself to be the way I am.

I applaud you for handling it much better than I would have! I probably would have gone off at the woman making the comments. Some people are such knit-wits! I was trying to watch my son and his friend perform in a talent show at school once and these little kids were rolling and crawling all over the floor...and also making alot of noise. Do you think their parents would've told them to sit down and be quiet? NOOOOOOOOOOO. It was totally annoying and my friend finally said something to the kids. ~Lisa

I also have to say that I hate when parents don't do anything about their kids' bad behavior (if they are too young to understand 'no' then they should have left out of respect for everyone else around them). I have 4 kids and we have never had an event where I would ever allow them to behave like that; if one when they were an infant was crying, etc., we would leave, go out to the car, walk around, etc. It's rude and disrespectful to others to allow such behavior to continue. Sounds like they could have cared less that the child was kicking you, and they obviously knew it. You did the right thing. The other lady really should have kept her mouth shut; you showed total control in how you handled it, I don't think I would have sat there so calmly either. She would have made me much more angry than the child. The fact that she then started speaking in another language, well apparently she wasn't ready to face up to the brunt of whatever she was saying about you. Or maybe the person she was with didn't speak English, which is another way to think about it I suppose. I would totally let it go as you did what was right.

Sadly the kids that were kicking you will probably be the ones that grow up feeling 'entitled' to treat anyone however they feel and have no personal responsibility for anything at all. What I've totally seen over the years is that (most of the time) when you have a bratty kid, the parents are right up there too. As in the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.