If someone is rude to your child..?

Question

We were in the library two days ago (going back today so that's why I'm asking now) and were checking out some books. My 4 year old daughter asked the librarian, who was checking out our books, a question. The woman did not respond. My daughter asked in a reasonably loud voice, so I think the librarian heard her. I repeated the question to the librarian who looked at me and answered me, completely ignoring my daughter. It just really irritated me. I understand that all people don't like kids, but I really think they should be treated like people, with common courtesy. Especially when the kids are behaving themselves. I've noticed before in several places that kids often get ignored, even when they ask direct questions. Would you have said "My daughter asked you a question" or "I'm sorry, did you hear her question" or if this happened to you, how would you have responded? What should I say.

Answer 1

i would say to my kid

....the ****** didnt hear you!!! ask her agian how she dose her s*hit job....

Answer 2

I know alot of people are like that, like if we go out to eat, My daughter has money and nobody takes her order, she is 5...

haha AMC you sound a lot like me LOL

Answer 3

i would most definitely ask her if she heard my child.age does not make a difference if someone is being respectful. too many people don't treat children like people, and then wonder why they have no respect for them as they grow up. it's not going to make her a little priss it will teach her a good lesson that hopefully she will pass on in the future.

Answer 4

I probably would have asked for her, but maybe said it like 'excuse me, my daughter was wondering where.......' etc.  

Kids do get ignored by adults quite often, but in some cases I think it is because the adults aren't used to them coming up and asking and usually expect a parent to approach them.

I don't think there's any harm in getting your children to speak up though, as I think it gives them confidence and even the brush off from adults in shops can help with that as they realise that not everyone is a nice, approachable person...........such as Arbiter above........what a grouch!  :o)

Answer 5

I would have said to my kid...

"sweetie, the lady didn't hear you, please ask her again"

And I would say that loud enough for the child to hear me as well as the librarian.  

Answer 6

Get real!!

The danger in your attitude is to your daughter!!  Sounds like you are well on your way to making her a little missy that the rest of the kids will turn against as soon as she gets to school!!!

Answer 7

Children talk and chatter and make weird noises all the time.  I don't blame the librarian one bit for blocking them all out.  That's what I do.  

To get the child's question answered, I probably would have picked her up and asked her to repeat the question so the lady could hear it better.

Answer 8

Don't jump to conclusions. The woman may be hard of hearing, or maybe she just wasn't paying attention and had her mind on something else.

I happen to be blind in my right eye, people have often told me that I've been rude for ignoring them, or didn't say hi to them in a store, when in reality, I didn't SEE them due to being blind in one eye. Give her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she was just having a bad day. I would let it pass.

Answer 9

Wow, that is rude. I don't care if she doesn't like kids, then she doesn't need to work somewhere where kids are! She needs to work at a s*x store or something HA! Maybe you should talk to a manager you are a customer and so is your daughter and you need to be treated with respect. Something either needs to be said to her or her manager that's for sure. If she is purposely being rude then maybe you should say in a very nice way, " Excuse me mame did you hear my daughter she is trying to ask you a question?" and see how that goes.