I will begin this story by telling a personal case that happened to me a couple of years ago. We were traveling in Paris with my six month old baby, and at night, at the hotel, he woke up crying several times. The room neighbors were quite disturbed by the baby's cries.
The fact is that the reaction of the aforementioned was to make screams, saying even what I understood to see if we were to silence the baby, along with some out of control expletives. You can imagine how we feel, we just lacked that situation to add to our own nerves and the helplessness of seeing how there was no way for the baby to calm down.
The truth is that we could have responded to hotel neighbors in such a way educated as they did, but it didn't seem appropriate to increase the scandal. The next day I wanted to knock on the door or cross them down the hall, but the matter stayed there.
The next night, my baby cried again, but there was no answer, I imagine that comprehensive guests would have left the hotel or requested a room change. I'm glad.
I have decided to tell you this fact as a result of reading in Of moms and dads a similar event:
Last week, Valeria, my friend Marta's two-year-old daughter, woke up in the middle of the night crying for a nightmare. As with many children, he continued with his cries despite his mother's attempts to comfort her. After a while, some neighbors began to hit the wall. In the morning, the doorman of the building registered the protest, on behalf of the entire community, for the cries, and urged Marta to intervene faster next time.
A community in full protesting the cry of a baby! As if it were a party or having the volume of television too high ... Curiously, these events also happened in Paris, where it seems that tolerance for "childish mess" is minimal.
We have already spoken on other occasions about what babies bother at weddings, in hotels, on airplanes ... And you will agree with me that, unless we live in isolation or in independent houses, babies can be heard crying from one house to another.
I do not say that it is not annoying on certain occasions, read sleeplessness or interruption of the home theater session, but from there to protest or get angry ... I have heard the crying of babies before and after having my daughters, and I have never been happened to call attention to the neighbors in any way, just as I hope nobody does in our case.
That attitude seems painful to me, it makes me wonder what world we live in, what kind of people can protest in this way to the cries of a baby, the lack of empathy of our society and if we forget that we were once children. I invite these people to move to a town without children, what a sadness.
