How badly do crying babies irritate you?

[ThatsMyBarack]

Whenever my mom babysits my nephew, and he starts crying for whatever reason, it carries up to my flat and really irritates me! When I ask my mom, "What's wrong with him?", she answers, "I don't know! I'm WORKING on it!" like it's MY fault he's crying. That irritates me even more.

That is why I'll never have children. I've never been tolerant of cry babies because I have very sensitive hearing.

I wish my sister would just send him back to a day care, instead of being paranoid that he'll get sick again.

:grr:

[flvegan]

1. Especially when I'm enjoying the veal at Olive Garden

Next thing you know, mom's BREASTFEEDING the little bugger, right there!!! Usually, I'll light up a cigarette right there, just to irritate them back.

Sorry, had to.

[ThatsMyBarack]

2. Funny!

:rofl:

[mikeytherat]

15. Actually, it's probably safe if you have the veal at Olive Garden.

I doubt there is much, if any, meat in it.

mikey_the_rat

[trof]

3. Depends on whose they are.

Others' kids crying very annoying.

[raccoon]

4. Drives me nuts.

Guess it's a good thing I never had kids.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. pretty badly, unless i am related to them

[SmokingJacket]

6. it's different when they're your own...

In fact, I don't think either of my two angels cried at all...

[Bunny]

7. I can assure you that your mother has no idea why the baby is crying, either.

Babies cry for any reason, they cry for no reason, they cry in short little bursts and they cry in great big squalls. It's really a total crapshoot.

So when you ask her "what's wrong with him?" of course she's going to be annoyed. She wants to get the problem fixed every bit as much as you do, so perhaps you could try to curb your irritation and offer to help out a little. Maybe a little Quality Time with Aunt/Uncle danagsk8 will do the trick? :shrug:

[gollygee]

8. I'm used to it

Mine was colicy.

Babies cry. It's just part of babyhood.

[MissMillie]

9. depends on the situation

if I'm somewhere where I expect quiet and I'm trying to concentrate, like the library, then I can get pretty irritated rather quickly.

And to me there's a huge difference between the baby that's crying because that's the only way it can communicate that something is wrong and the toddler that's crying in the throws of a tantrum.

I know what it's like to be a single-mom of limited means (not being able to afford a sitter every time I needed to leave the house) and having to get groceries. I would usually try to shop when my son was in good spirits (after his nap).

[Little Wing]

10. I can tolerate about 1/250th of a second

[RebelOne]

11. One word: Immensely.

[Schema Thing]

12. I'm fairly immune

It used to bother me very much, but then I thought about it. Now, if it's my responsibility to take care of the baby, I try to make sure whatever they are crying about is handled... and if it's not my responsibility, I tune it out, or go help out if my help is welcome.

y'know, we are supposed to grow up, so, pertaining to this matter, I did. I can guarantee you this, babies will never change until they grow out of it, it's their only form of communication.

[lizerdbits]

13. Badly

Good thing I'm not having any. I'm annoyed by my nephews crying but it's worse when it's babies I'm not related to.

[JVS]

14. tell her to work harder on it

[RoyGBiv]

16. Nails through eyeballs ...

I thought it was just immaturity when I was younger, but when my daughter was born, I found that I had a weird, physical reaction to it. On the positive side, I did learn fairly quickly how to determine what my daughter needed to make her stop crying, and she never cried much around me after the first couple of months.

But, the problem persists with the sound, and now I work with a woman who has made her baby's cry her freakin' RING TONE, and her cell rings a dozen times a day. That phone is going to suffer a very tragic fate in the near future.

[Shell Beau]

17. Well I think your sister is very lucky to have a mom willing to keep

her child. Babies cry. I understand it getting on your nerves and all, but lighten up. This is your nephew, right? Where is the compassion?

[Deep13]

18. I'd rather listen to Gilbert Godfried sing Ava Maria.

[Shell Beau]

19. OMG!!!

:wow:

That is a frightening thought!

[GirlinContempt]

20. They don't irritate me very much.

Sometimes, when I start to feel annoyed, I stop thinking about myself for five seconds. I remind myself of the fact that the baby probably has some reason to cry, I think about the other people who actually have to DEAL with this, and remind myself that I'll get over it.

[crim son]

21. My own kids crying drives me crazy.

Other peoples' kids crying I don't mind.

[jobycom]

22. Oddly, not anymore. Before I had kids, I thought crying babies were evil

and the parents were worthless sloths who convinced me I was right to never want kids. Now that I've raised two babies, I think other people's crying babies are sweet, and I smile when I hear them and glare at people who make that "Can't you quiet your baby, you worthless sloth?" expressions.

Ah, the places you will go... :rofl:

Neither POV was right or wrong, IMHO, they were both just markers for different places in my life.

[Lars39]

23. The only time I've ever gotten really annoyed at someone's

baby crying was hearing a newborn who clearly needed something and the mother and grandmother just went right on shopping as though nothing was happening. The natural response when hearing a newborn cry is to do something. I wondered if these two were operating under the idiotic theory of trying not to "spoil" the baby. A baby that young *cannot* be spoiled. They cry for a reason and it's up to the parents to figure it out if they want the baby to thrive.

[soleft]

24. It's so easy to stop a baby from crying it's not even funny

All you have to do is sing the Flintstone song. You may have to sing it a few times, but trust me, it works.

[skygazer]

25. I think hearing someone sing the Flintstones song to a crying baby

Would make ME cry.

[soleft]

27. It's never failed me yet so it's worth it

But you don't have to sing the whole song, just he musical refrain at the end that finishes with, "We'll have a gay old time! Wilma!"

[Ariana Celeste]

26. really doesn't bother me

it just makes me want to make everything alright.

now screaming & crying toddlers and young children- that's different.

[EFerrari]

28. A lot. They did when they were mine and they do when they're not mine.

I have that sensitive hearing thing, too. It runs in the family. How my grandmother managed with six kids I don't know because she was very sensitive to sound and to light. She should have gotten a medal or something. :shrug:

[Mz Pip]

29. Not much

because they are not my problem. Whenever I start getting annoyed by a crying kid I remind myself that my kids probably annoyed a few people when they were little.

Once when I was on a plane with my two boys, age 2 & 4 at the time, we were waiting to get off and one of them bumped into the suitcase of the guy behind us. The kids weren't crying or being distruptive, in fact neither one of them cried or whined the entire 4 hour flight. But this guy was a real jerk and told me very unpleasantly that my kid bumped into his suitcase. I looked at him and said "How about this? I'll trade you my two kids for your suitcase." That shut him up.

Kids cry and as long as I don't have to deal with it I can pretty much tune it out.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[LaraMN]

30. I hate it. I trained my own babies in utero not to cry; it's simply unnecessary.

:P

[bleedingheart]

31. Not at all...it tires them out...I used to view it as exercise

I am just immune to it...I have compassion for the little mites..

My son was colicky for a long time...never bothered me...drove Mr. B nuts..

[Connonym]

32. it's worse when they become older and scream instead

way worse. I'd take 10 crying babies over a screecher.

[AlCzervik]

33. makes me sad, babies usually cry for a reason--toddlers are a different story.