This one time I saw a mother and a child maybe three years old entering a bus I was riding. The child behaved nicely until the bus took of, and then he begun crying and fooling around. The mother tried to invent every kind of amusement for the boy, so that he would not bother other passengers.

I so don't want this when I have kids. The boy was so obviously using the situation to get attention. I thought that the best way is to ignore him. But maybe the best way would have been to tell him why it's so annoying that he cries in a bus. So this text definitely had something to consider.