This week, Babble.com features two timely articles about the challenges of living in the city with kids. Both articles are a must-read — not only for urban parents, but for anyone who has to share a city with strollers. In “Notes from Underground,” Lynn Harris wonders why subway riders love babies but hate pregnant women. She contrasts her pregnant subway experience – she was almost never offered a seat — with the legions of fellow riders who’ve played with her new baby and carried her stroller up the stairs. Could these really be the same people who raced her to a subway seat when she was eight months pregnant — in August?
Harris makes some daring observations and reaches some surprising conclusions. Read the article.
In the latest installment of Babble’s advice column “Parental Advisory,” a Brooklyn parent asks about the etiquette of bringing her baby into a bar. Writes the parent:
I never get sloppy drunk or spill scalding coffee on him. And he never interrupts other patrons, except with the occasional smile or wave. But they glare at me like I’m a terrible parent and like it’s impossible for them to update their websites with a one-year-old in sight! Why do I keep reading blogs and op-eds about how I’m ruining Brooklyn? Am I really supposed to get a
babysitter for that thirty-minute visit to a drinks party or that hour-long catch-up coffee?
Are babies really a menace to Brooklyn?
Read Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris’ nuanced response.
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