Question and NFRC: I just made a quick trip to the store for some bread. When I came back out

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cynupstateny

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and was headed to my car I saw two young women talking. One was holding a little girl about 6 months old. It's 62° out. All of the adults, including me, had sweatshirts on. The infant had a t-shirt and diaper. I was disgusted. As I walked past them I said "Oh honey, it's so chilly out we've all got sweatshirts on. Don't you think she's cold?" I was told to do something that is anatomically impossible. I kept walking and they kept standing there talking.

Should I have kept my mouth shut?

 
or flipped open your cellphone and told her you have the no. for child services entered just for

neglectful "moms" like her. Shameful.

 
Sometimes folk who know they are in the wrong re-act with verbal....

abuse...Grrrr!
It may make you feel better hearing this...one of my sister's sprogs hated wearing clothes, she was about 16 months and constantly kept tugging everything off and screaming if she had clothing put on...she loved wearing a see-thru old tutu from her older sister though, so often that is how we took her to the shops. Our other 4 children between us were dressed warmly.
A lot of folk would mention to us how we should dress her more warmly as it was the middle of winter and her lips and feet were often pretty blue with cold. Her bottom and back were mottled pink, I remember it all so clearly.
(Neither of us was rude in return but it was hard to explain)

My sister took this problem to the doctor and he shrugged and said 'she'll grow out of it" a lot of folk don't feel the cold much!
Pah!...she is 24 now and still wears next to nothing on her very long, thin body all year round.
She doesn't go almost nude anymore though, that she did grow out of when she was about 4.

Absolutely no need for rudeness from those ladies at all.

 
I know from experience that some babies really do just run hot... that said, it's NO excuse for her

to talk to you like that!! My gr-nephew is hot even in the flimsiest of t-shirts, even at 50 deg. out. If you try and keep jackets on him, he gets very irritable and overheated. BUT, if that lady (loosely termed here) had any sense, or at least self-preservation, she would have had a kinder comeback to your obvious kind concern! There's just no accounting for some people.

 
I agree with cheez, there was reason for the response that you got...

other than ignorance.
If the child was warm enough and couldn't tolerate more, she should have said so. If you were in the right, she should have thanked you for pointing out her error.
You did nothing wrong.

I would edit the title if I could.....there should be NO reason for the response...

 
Agree completely, her response is uncalled for. The baby could have had an

"accident" and the Mom did not have a change of clothes. Many, reasons why could have occurred. BUT, there is no excuse for her reaction. What is disturbing to think about is what the child is being exposed to on a daily basis, especially behind closed doors.

 
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