when I was a teenager, I was in the supermarket with my mom and my baby sister.
My mom wanted to quickly grab something from the other side of the store, so I stayed at my sister in her stroller.
I was standing next to the stroller, playing with my gameboy.
When my mom came back, a woman berated her (and indirectly me) that it’s so irresponsible to leave my sister unsupervised, as I wasn’t paying attention.
Mind you, I was literally 30cm next to my sister. Who was sitting in her stroller doing nothing but playing with a toy and looking around.
That’s pretty much accurate as to how the state reinforces helicopter parenting nowadays. Institutionalized anxiety starting from the 80s with John Walsh’s kid’s murder.
You leave the stroller for a moment to grab your take-away order and come back to a crow repeatedly attempting to insert a still-living snail into the baby’s face. The snail is confused, but calm. The crow is frustrated. The baby won’t stop screaming, further frustrating the crow. Just eat the snail, idiot.
Imagine if humans did this with human babies.
Sees baby unattended for literally 0.03 seconds “Your mother has abandoned you, but I shall raise you like my own!”
I hear that this happens sometimes, but nowhere near normal times, more like during evacuations from warzone and so on
when I was a teenager, I was in the supermarket with my mom and my baby sister.
My mom wanted to quickly grab something from the other side of the store, so I stayed at my sister in her stroller.
I was standing next to the stroller, playing with my gameboy.
When my mom came back, a woman berated her (and indirectly me) that it’s so irresponsible to leave my sister unsupervised, as I wasn’t paying attention.
Mind you, I was literally 30cm next to my sister. Who was sitting in her stroller doing nothing but playing with a toy and looking around.
That’s pretty much accurate as to how the state reinforces helicopter parenting nowadays. Institutionalized anxiety starting from the 80s with John Walsh’s kid’s murder.
You are mother has?
Imagine if animals did this with human babies.
You leave the stroller for a moment to grab your take-away order and come back to a crow repeatedly attempting to insert a still-living snail into the baby’s face. The snail is confused, but calm. The crow is frustrated. The baby won’t stop screaming, further frustrating the crow. Just eat the snail, idiot.
Everyone would be better off, I’m sure
Romulus and Remus.
Maybe the dingo didn’t EAT the baby?
I feel like this could happen.