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Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom by raincole on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:56AM (#38050287)
Because rising a child is genuine hard. And it's only getting harder everyday. The cities are crowded. People are less tolerant to noisy children. If your parenting is not what people expect they will judge you on social media (instead of a very small social circle like before). Many once common parenting practices are literal crime now. And housing and school are only getting more expensive.

The most tolerable alternative is simply not to have children, and it will just be more and more common.

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Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom by switch007 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:45PM (#38052331)
> The cities are crowded

Yup, all people feel the effect of this

> People are less tolerant to noisy children

My tolerance was tested today when a Mum and her princess took up 3 seats at a cafe today and let the daughter watch YouTube videos loudly on her iPad without any headphones.

I still don't understand why parents take their kids to boring cafes and restaurants. Kids want to do noisy things and run around. I didn't go to cafes until I was about 12. Prior to that weekends would be spent be walking the dogs, going to parks, forests, picnics etc

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Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom by j7ake on Sunday October 29, 2023 @01:21AM (#38055985)
Because the parents want to go to cafe and restaurants. It’s a way to get the kids used to the things they like
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Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom by switch007 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:12AM (#38056429)
I totally get that parents want to get out the house, socialise etc but are you really going to reduce this argument down to /wanting/ to do something? Because you know people will respond with all the things they /want/ to do but don't because of respect and consideration.
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Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom by j7ake on Sunday October 29, 2023 @07:26AM (#38057515)
Parenting take time and practice. It is unreasonable to expect zero crying while in public.

As the parent takes the kids out more to restaurants and cafes, the kid will slowly learn how to behave. But it’s a process that takes time.

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