Divorced Moms

Sheesh!  I think I might have been speechless, too.  But now that you've put this into my head, if it happens to me, I'll be slightly prepared.  If the child had been older, I'd do something like looking directly at the child and saying "Wow.  Your Mom must be having a really bad day to have said something like THAT!"  But I think since the child was so young, I would have said "I'd appreciate it if you watch your language when MY kids are around, please."

On another note, I am trying to get up the guts to walk up to one of those people who park right next to the curb, stick out my hand and say "Thank you.  I've always wanted to meet the most important person in the world, and now I have."

As for the verbal abuse thing... a friend encountered a mom in a store spanking and screaming at her kid. My friend was so disgusted by the mom's behavior that she LIED to the mom and told her that she was with children's services and was going to get her tag number of her car to identify her and made the woman promise that it wouldn't happen again. You have to wonder... if people treat their children like that in public, what happens behind closed doors. Everyone wants to blame the demise of our children on society. I'm sorry... to a very large degree it is the parents.