Do you think #iammother is purely Russian?invention? We'll disappoint you - no, the phenomenon is global. The whole world is split into two camps: some are turning into baby shamers, ready to bully mothers with children simply for the fact of their existence, while others are calling for compassion. After all, everyone was a child once, and these little people can be very different. Some are really hard to get along with. And at the center of this epic conflict are they. I'm a mother. "There are really only a few of them," grumbles my friend, whose son is a very noisy brat. In public places, she never takes her eyes off him. "Because of these mothers, who don't care how their child behaves, everyone starts to hate." The latest round of confrontation was provoked by a video recorded by one of the passengers on the Berlin - New Jersey flight. The flight lasted eight hours. And for all these eight hours, people were forced to listen to the incredibly strong hysteria of the child. A boy of three or four years old was making such noises that even we, sitting in a relatively quiet editorial office, wanted to call an exorcist. “He was just screaming. He was running around, smashing everything around him, climbing onto the back of the seat, pounding on the ceiling,” say travelers who were “lucky” enough to become fellow travelers of the little hooligan. The flight attendants tried to influence the mother. “Give us Wi-Fi, then we can turn on the tablet and he will calm down,” she replied. There was no Wi-Fi on the plane. And the mother, apparently, did not bother to download cartoons onto the tablet in advance. All her attempts to calm the screaming child boiled down to the remark: “Darling, calm down.” Did it work? Ha! Even after landing, people left the plane to the screams of the little one. “This is just some kind of hell,” one of the passengers on the ill-fated flight practically ran along the “sleeve”. It seems like the ranks of baby shamers have grown.

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