Jane, it's very clearly not a "parent and toddler" bashing thread. It's, amongst other things, a complaint about a certain type of parent of young children.

Yes, there are people who can't stand kids and will hate whatever they do, but the comments here (even the more vociferious complaints) are about a specific type of behaviour. You complained about lack of reasoned discourse and cliches on this topic, and yet you are happily painting all the parent-related complaints here with broad sweeping generalisations and cliches yourself.

Pot?