Where do I start with this abomination? What are knees and laps for, if not to accommodate small children? My children sat on my knee for the first 12 years of their life (by the end, they frankly preferred to stand) after which they did stand. And that is how it should be. I have even seen a worse outrage, namely, an old person give up his seat for a child. What does this teach the little emperor? That his needs come first, that he doesn’t defer to anyone on the grounds of seniority, that there are no rules of etiquette governing his behaviour. We are busy creating monsters and the trouble is that it’s not just their ghastly parents who will have to weather the consequences but the rest of us, who will have to deal with a whole generation of young folk conditioned to see themselves as the centre of the world. The parents seem wholly blind to the opinion of others; indeed, they assume that everyone else will look on their offspring with benign approval.
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