Never be presumptuous.

I have travelled back from Spain today and realised something important.

Never presume to know how someone is bringing up their child. I will explain further. After a very long day of travelling my five year old was watching a DVD on a portable DVD player. This was as we arrived back from Clapham Junction on the train and made our way through Tescos to stock up for supper and breakfast and then back home. A woman passed me in the street and said loudly " How appalling to let my child watch DVDs in the street."

Little did she know that
1. We do not have a TV at home.
2. We have just spent seven hours travelling
3. It was a way for my daughter to be entertained for the last twenty minutes of our journey.


I have the same problem though, being presumptuous. I see children on Nintendos and PlayStation's or playing with their phones and I think terrible parents!

There are therefore two thoughts to take away from this experience: Firstly you never know what that child has done in the day and is allowed to do as a result of that day. Secondly that I do not condone this technology. Even in my situation at the end of a long journey when I had been entertaining her for six hours solidly, reading, colouring, making and playing I still chose the easy option. However if that easy option is to give the parents a few moments rest then that is a good enough reason for me. If however it is used as a substitute then I do question what our future generations are going to be like.

I know this is fiery but I felt wronged. I just hope I do not wrong others.