Reply #144: You want the baby "shut up" by stifling him with a hand? Unbelievable [View All]

Even given the child-hating I've seen on DU, this about takes the cake. How about educating yourself about stages of child development before handing out advice to parents? Babies, by the way, don't yet have much concept of other's "rights." Your solution - aside from being ridiculous - how much force do you think it would take to actually muffle an eighteen month old child? - would be a pretty sure prescription for ending up with a crying baby - a sound far more disturbing than a harmless "babble."

Nothing more demonstrates what a child-hating culture we are than the attitude of so many adults that they must never, under any circumstances (even in a McDonalds) be inconvenienced in the slightest fashon by infants and small children. The heritage of English and German child-hating child-rearing practices, and the Puritans, who thought it OK to whip infants under twelve months. No wonder we allow so many of our children to go hungry and without health care here, in the richest country in the wolrd.