A mature people interpret rules to make them appropriate to circumstances. Rules are not laws. They are not immutable. They are a convenience for participants. The rigid application of rules leads to excesses such as sending little boys home from school for drawing pictures or eating cookies.
It is obnoxious to allow ignorant watchdogs enforce rules intended to create a comfortable environment. Their blatant disregard for the intention of rules is the very foundation of tyrannical rule in civil society. The succor of an infant is a sacred act. Disallowing a mother and participant to care for and feed her infant is a vulgarity.
i get what you are saying... but i believe it was obnoxious of her to show up and assume... she could have called before hand to find out if they would accommodate her... but i know why she did not do that...
In this current age of lawsuits, exercising discretion is a sure way to get sued over "discriminatory" treatment. The rule was "no kids under 16". The baby is under 16. If they let her in, then they invite all sorts of complaints from other participants who took the time and expense to arrange for child-care away from the trade show.
I’ve been to many trade shows at McCormick Place,and the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC, and before you are allowed to enter you are screened for proper documentation. There are guards checking you in as you enter the hall.Children are never allowed, for safety and legal reasons.I don’t know how she was allowed in, she should not have been.Obviously she hid the infant in order to gain admission.
There are thousands of attendees who follow the rules, if they didn’t the convention center would be filled with strollers, baby gear, screaming toddlers, etc.
This is a business convention, not a playground. Why anyone would bring a ten day old baby to such an environment defies logic.
If this woman felt compelled to attend she should have left pumped breast milk at home with a care giver and her ten day old infant and attended to her business.
As Freud said “Sometimes the rules are just the rules”.
You do know some people breast feed up to 4 years old (the more liberal types), should she have been allowed to bring her 4 year old because he was still breast feeding?
Rules are rules, I agree with the person who said she should have called to see if they could accommodate her, if not, someone who was able to attend should have taken her place.
All mothers make sacrifices (and fathers too) for their children. It’s something one expects when one has a child.