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Miss Manners on "Baby Think it Over" school assignments



 
 
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Old March 27th 07, 09:49 PM posted to misc.kids
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Default Miss Manners on "Baby Think it Over" school assignments

You'll love this one. I'm guessing that the school didn't say
anything
about not disturbing other people with the doll's crying, and the
girl's mother somehow thought that since it's not a real baby the
crying is not a real disturbance.

Lenona.


Fake baby a genuine annoyance


DEAR MISS MANNERS: My family and I recently attended a dance concert
in a small venue. Several teenagers were also in attendance,
accompanied by chaperones, and one of the teenagers had brought with
her what I can only describe as a fake baby. (Some high schools have
started using these fake babies to teach students what it is like to
have a real baby. The students must treat the fake baby as if it is a
real baby, and the fake baby will cry loudly if it "needs"
attention.)


After intermission, the fake baby started crying loudly (more loudly,
even, than a real baby). The girl would then give the fake baby the
necessary attention, but it would start crying again minutes later.
This went on during the entire second half of the performance and the
crying could be heard by the entire audience (consisting of fewer
than
50 people). I am sure the dancers could hear it as well.


After the performance, my mother approached the teenager and told her
it was inappropriate to bring fake babies to performances, as it not
only disturbs the audience, but also the dancers. The girl's mother
shrugged it off, saying, "It was for an assignment, so we don't have
any control over it."


Miss Manners, how should we have handled this situation? The girl and
her mother did not seem to see any problem.


Gentle Reader -- That child is not learning her lesson very well,
Miss
Manners is afraid. Its object was to show her that having a baby
would
curtail her freedom to go out and have fun, not that it could
accompany her in curtailing other people's fun.


But your mother is not that child's teacher, and dressing down a
fellow guest after the fact is rude and ineffective. Her only
usefulness would have been to re-enforce the point of the school
exercise by saying sympathetically, "I remember what it's like from
when my children were babies -- you have to stay home or take them
away when they cry, or you get the rest of the audience angry at you."

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Old March 28th 07, 05:48 PM posted to misc.kids
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Default Miss Manners on "Baby Think it Over" school assignments

On Mar 27, 4:49?pm, wrote:
You'll love this one. I'm guessing that the school didn't say
anything
about not disturbing other people with the doll's crying, and the
girl's mother somehow thought that since it's not a real baby the
crying is not a real disturbance.

Lenona.

Fake baby a genuine annoyance

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My family and I recently attended a dance concert
in a small venue. Several teenagers were also in attendance,
accompanied by chaperones, and one of the teenagers had brought with
her what I can only describe as a fake baby. (Some high schools have
started using these fake babies to teach students what it is like to
have a real baby. The students must treat the fake baby as if it is a
real baby, and the fake baby will cry loudly if it "needs"
attention.)

After intermission, the fake baby started crying loudly (more loudly,
even, than a real baby). The girl would then give the fake baby the
necessary attention, but it would start crying again minutes later.
This went on during the entire second half of the performance and the
crying could be heard by the entire audience (consisting of fewer
than
50 people). I am sure the dancers could hear it as well.

After the performance, my mother approached the teenager and told her
it was inappropriate to bring fake babies to performances, as it not
only disturbs the audience, but also the dancers. The girl's mother
shrugged it off, saying, "It was for an assignment, so we don't have
any control over it."

Miss Manners, how should we have handled this situation? The girl and
her mother did not seem to see any problem.

Gentle Reader -- That child is not learning her lesson very well,
Miss
Manners is afraid. Its object was to show her that having a baby
would
curtail her freedom to go out and have fun, not that it could
accompany her in curtailing other people's fun.

But your mother is not that child's teacher, and dressing down a
fellow guest after the fact is rude and ineffective. Her only
usefulness would have been to re-enforce the point of the school
exercise by saying sympathetically, "I remember what it's like from
when my children were babies -- you have to stay home or take them
away when they cry, or you get the rest of the audience angry at you."


I was once walking past a car in a shopping mall and started hearing
crying, but a weird kind of crying. I called security and they came
and checked it out. They determined that the crying was coming from a
locked trunk and called EMS, police, etc. Announcements were made in
the mall that the driver was needed at their car immediately and gave
the license number. A big crowd had gathered and when the trunk was
opened, it was one of those fake babies! I'm guessing that the teen
got an F on her project. I hope he/she's more careful in the fute with
real babies!

Julie
askmeanmom.com

 




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