No control

I wonder if this mom just gave up. I was sitting in a side room with my daughter waiting for her gymnastics class to start. There was another lady near me who was on a conference call and her son was quiet and so was my daughter. Suddenly this lady and her three kids bursts into the room all crazy and loud where it was absolute silence before. Literally the room felt like it was filled with 20 kids instead of the three she added and then she was shutting the door and not even in the room with them. She finally came back in and realized this other lady was having a call and gave the most half hearted attempt of anyone I've ever seen control their kids to a quieter level. Basically nothing changed and they were still crazy and the other last finally had to leave the room to take her call. She seemed to just given up on any presence of being a parent and just let her kids run wild while burying her face in her phone. Then I'm trying to get my kid out of the room and send her to class and one of her boys just started to crawl by aimed right at me and basically was trying to use his head to push me out of the way. I'm assuming this kid is 2-3 as he was talking / screaming / walking so we aren't taking newborn. She tried to get him to stop but no apologies. So strange. This has happened before with these kids as well so it isn't the first time they run around like crazy screaming banshees. I think she finally gave up and took her kids out after one started wailing.

What would you do in this instance? It's not like I can speak up and say hi lady please control your kids, yell at the kids to listen to their mom, or even offer a way to distract them when she doesn't even seem to care. I can only put my headphones on and be thankful that I remembered to bring them, that my kids aren't typically like this, and lastly to just say a prayer for her that she finds her way at some point and some method that works for her and her kids.


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