Educate2Liberate

What am I going to do with you America and all of the ignorant people in it? I was in Target yesterday and HAD to leave. I was so disgusted and was seriously enraged. I was in the infant section looking for pajamas for my daughter and heard the sweet, little innocent cry of a newborn. All you parents out there I am sure can recall the newborn cry. This was no mistake that it was in fact a newborn. It wasn’t just a whimper either. This was a full blown cry, a cry for some sort of need. I am not sure what this brand new bundle of joy NEEDED, but it was apparent that s/he desperately needed attention by its mother. At first I thought to myself that the mother was just in the middle of something, but would soon care to the child. The mother ignored its cries and said, “Oh, you’re okay.” As if the newborn was just piss-whining for nothing. At this point I was a little perturbed. After about ten minutes I nonchalantly peek around the corner to see what is going on and the mother was completely ignoring her child’s cries and continuing shopping as if nothing were wrong. At this point, I had to leave. I was so furious. I desperately wanted to say something to this woman, but I feared that if I did I might open a can of “whoop ass” on the lady and end up in jail. At that point I decided it was just better to leave because my emotions were about to take over. My stomach turned as I ran out of Target. I could not believe my eyes or ears. How can you LET your newborn child sit in its car seat, alone and upset? And we wonder why America has the highest crime rate, highest rates for psychological disorders and why so many children and adults have to deal with anxiety and depression. Wouldn’t you be depressed if you were helpless and new to the whole life thing if you were left alone to cry and not have your needs met? ARGH! When are Americans going to realize that a baby's SOLE way of communication is through crying? When are Americans going to realize that babies cry FOR reasons? When are American's going to learn that when your baby cries and s/he needs to be held that YES that is a need, not a want? When are Americans going to realize that babies, do not have wants? They are incapable of understanding wants. They only need. They need to be fed, changed, comforted, bathed, soothed, put to sleep, etc. They are brand new to this new life of theirs and are desperately learning how to live in this new cold and lonely place so far from their mother's womb. It saddens me that children are left to cry. Actually, this was not meant to be about CIO (Cry-It-Out method) at all. It saddens me that brand new lives are left alone to cry and probably only want to be held by the one person they have ever known, but were taken from the most warm and comforting place... their mother's womb.