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I understand but also not my problem? If you are too tired to deal with your children maybe keep them at home. If you are going to bring a child to a public place you got to be prepare and willing to educate them. Your children are special bundles of joy for You, and you only. People are not ok in having to deal with an unhinged savage child because parenting is hard. People take the "it takes a village" wrong. Not everyone you see is on your village.
Then, politely, fuck off.
Children are a part of the society that you live in, whether you liked it or not. I don't know who hurt you, but you were also a child once. You pooped your diapers, you cried, you misbehaved. How your parents have treated you when you did these things has a very direct effect on how you behave and think right now. My guess is they were shitty, it would explain your irrational anger and hatred towards kids.
Misbehaving in public is a necessary step to learning how to behave in the first place. It's a learning by doing thing. You won't get your child prepared to act kind, nice, and considerate with other people if you don't let them meet other people. You cannot teach your kid how to behave on the outside at home. How is that not obvious to you? It is inconvenient, it is annoying, it is hard, and it has to be done so that we don't have underdeveloped, immature, dysregulated asshole adults a generation's time from now.
Parents are always obligated to watch for their kids and show them how to behave. This doesn't mean they can, or should, control their every move, word, reaction, emotion, or behavior. If a 3 year old cries and it is uncomfortable for you, that's your problem. It is not the child's or the parent's duty to shut them up with a gag ball ffs. It is their duty to help them resolve and guide them through their overwhelming emotions. So that they will grow up to be emotionally healthy adults.
Children have an innate need to play. They learn via playing. They learn via trying things out and touching them. They learn to walk and run by walking and running - and falling and failing. They also learn about the world from the world's reaction. Being met with disdain for solely existing and breathing won't help them to grow up to be adults with a lot of self worth.
You don't get to decide who is part of the society and village you live in. You don't get to cherry pick your neighbors.
You don't want kids in your village go live in a cave.
That's a lot of anger you're spitting just because someone doesn't want to hear screaming children. My siblings and I were never allowed to scream in public.
That person really feels entitled to inflict their children's bad behavior on everyone else around them.
We should sterilize people who's children tantrum in public, and have social services take their children.