Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

She was also doing this, sitting in a four seat section with one other person, but had her legs in the gangway, luckily because of all the running around and screaming my son does he was skilful enough to avoid her :)

Seriously though, much like the collective responsibility argument, my son does not constantly run around like that. That kid you see looking all calm and peaceful sitting and reading is the same as the one you see running around like a crazy person. We are all individuals, sometimes we are on bikes, sometimes walking, sometimes we make mistakes on the road, sometimes it's someone else that makes a mistake that effects us. I'm sure all the people that complain about roudy children have been a roudy child themselves at some point.

I'm sure I've been a terrible person to sit next to on a train and I've got annoyed by other people on trains. I would like to think I am mostly a considerate cyclist/trainwanker/driver/pedestrian and I try to teach the same values to my son, but as a parent you have to choose your battles. When I'm holding a massive heavy bike with child seat (because another selfish person was sitting in the bike strapping area, whilst there were other empty seats) was not a time to try to corral him.

Edit: Oops, that was a bit of a rant, and not in reply specifically to cogsucker, but also @ice and @Clockwise... Not singling any of you out, collective responsibility and all that ;)