Childfree IJers

I ride the bus/train to and from work. Today, I had the misfortune of ending up on a bus behind a woman and her three fairly young kids.

Two of them insisted on standing up in the seats pretty much the whole time - and Mama didn't stop them from doing so. And the youngest developed an overwhelming interest in the bell pull. The only thing Mama did was swap seats with the second eldest, and that was only because there was no room to seat both her and them. I'm thinking if she'd had at least one less kid, she'd have time to teach them proper behavior....

I'm just happy they got off a few stops later....