To the adults who scold crying children—Thoughts on a society that has forgotten kindness😹
Good morning, everyone🌞 This is Hikaru, the number magician (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ
This time, I would like to write about Yun-san's article.
Actually, when I read this article, it made my heart ache.
I also posted about a similar incident at a supermarket before. It was about a woman who was blind and accompanied by a guide dog, and an older woman who made a huge scene assuming it was just a regular dog, but thanks to an older man who saw this and firmly scolded her, the situation was finally resolved.
My best friend Miyabi-san also quoted this incident in her article.
This time, Yun-san's article is also about an incident at a supermarket.
Yun-san was shopping while carrying her small child. Even though it was difficult with her body still recovering from childbirth, when she put the child down, the child started crying again.
While she had no choice but to continue shopping amidst the crying, she was yelled at by a stranger, an older man, twice, and was even told by an older woman who was with him that "the parents have no discipline."
It seems the other customers who were there just pretended not to see and walked away.
I couldn't help but tear up after reading this article.
To be yelled at just for having a crying child is completely unreasonable. On what grounds can they say "the parents have no discipline"? It is natural for children to cry. I feel that the people who yell "noisy" without understanding that are the ones whose emotional growth has truly stopped.
If you call yourself an elder in life, I wish you would have enough composure to reach out to those in trouble. Perhaps they are adults only in body, while their hearts remain those of children.
And another thing that made me sad was—that no one helped Yun-san and her child.
There was no need to confront the man. Just saying "Are you okay?" would have been enough. They could have also called a store clerk to intervene.
Yet, no one did anything. I can only imagine how lonely and scared a woman holding a crying small child must have felt, and it breaks my heart.
In the end, it seems Yun-san left the supermarket in the middle of her shopping.
It is natural for children to cry. Everyone was once a child who cried and grew up with the help of those around them. I wish they would remember that starting point once again.
(Hikaru)
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