I get chills when I read things like , 'Should children be banned from planes?' for one reason. Children are not the problem, parents are the problem. In the Hall of Plenty we get women so badly suited to motherhood that they will say of a six week old baby,
'Oh he/she is being naughty today.'
Really? I'm mean REALLY?
Explain to me how a six week old baby can be naughty exactly. Crying! Have you tried checking it's nappy?
Still crying! Have you fed it, burped it, brought it out at a deeply inappropriate time, kept it up when it wants to sleep or maybe, just maybe, it is aware that you are more interested in mascara and lipstick than your baby.
Vain women who have babies because it gets them attention, then act like the child has interrupted their very busy life ,when they really want to concentrate on buying more makeup, should leave their kids at home.
Case in point; the woman who was so busy with her fake eyelashes, ignored her son's desperate pleas to take him to the toilet and caused him to wee all over the floor, will never know what damage she did to his self esteem in the long term.
Yesterday a couple came to the counter with a child in a pushchair, a lovely little boy who was quite obviously exhausted and even more obviously teething, and what was the first thing she said to me when I said hello to the child?
'Ignore him, he is being very naughty today.'
I may be an average consultant but I am a bloody good mother, and so I asked,
'How? How is he being naughty? Surely he can only be ''naughty'' by your adult judgement, given that he is, what, eighteen months old? I would suggest he is being tortured by his gums and is exhausted, and would probably benefit from some care and attention at home, he can't be naughty because he doesn't know what naughty is. Where you looking for any particular mascara?'
She did try to stare me out , whilst her addled brain worked out what I had said. The husband was a lot quicker and went red but utterly ignored the child.
And that, I am afraid, is typical of the chattering classes, they have a kid because it seems like a good idea and then they loose all compassion for it because it won't conform or behave in a way they think it should.
Children are not adults or playthings. They are unformed human beings who learn every good or bad thing from their parents, so let's face it, children are not the problem. We are!
