Joe_Schmeaux wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 4:58am:

Babies need a lot of protection from the sun. Babies need regular potty breaks. At 11 months, your child is probably not yet close to being toilet trained. Babies also puke. Babies can't swim.  You can't strap him down, since he would drown if the canoe overturned. Which leads me to the next thing. Babies cry. They cry when they're hungry. They cry when they're uncomfortable. They cry when they're tired. They cry when they're sick. They cry when they're bored.

Wow.  That's really insightful, Joe.  I bet the parents of an 11-month old had NO CLUE about any of this!  Thank goodness you came to the rescue and informed them of these facts.


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Canoes and wilderness are pretty boring to infants

Yeah, the sterile insides of a playpen with the same old boring toys will probably stimulate a baby a lot more than some crappy wilderness setting.


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Perhaps you're not bothered by a little crying from your little bundle of joy. But sound travels very easily across lakes, and there's usually not much background noise in Quetico to mask things. What might seem to you to be "a little quiet whimpering" at the next campsite is "someone else's screaming brat" - the exact thing they came to Quetico to get away from. So for the sake of your child and for the sake of the other campers, please put Quetico on hold for a few years.

So nice to see you assume the worst of the kid, the parents, and their parenting skills.  What this really comes down to, Joe, is that since you and your kid weren't up to this challenge when your kid was at this age, it's very intimidating to you to possibly interact with parents and child who are willing and able to handle the situation.

I know who I'd much rather run into in the wilderness between this family and you...and it ain't you, pal.

Thanks for one of the most self-centered, ignorant and small-minded posts I've ever seen.  >:(

Edit information:  I'd forgotten to include "self-centered" in the executive summary section of my post.  How thoughtless of me.  My apologies to anyone who read this post with that omission.