Is it too much to ask, that we settle on a happy medium between these two extremes? Of course we all agree Victorian repression is a bad thing. And of course it’s good to introduce children to things that stretch them, and lead them towards adult pleasures. But to take very small children to concerts, when they’d clearly much rather be curled up in bed with their teddies, is just idiotic. And asking a nervous performer to endure the fidgets and subdued complaints of toddlers simply isn’t fair. I could hear this particular child from right across the other side of the hall, for some minutes. Chung was actually very patient, and though her tone was pretty icy when she finally lost it, she was perfectly polite. But all the biens-pensants are now joined in strident protest against Chung, as if her mild request to the parents (who should have known better) was an act of cruel repression. The indignation she’s aroused isn’t just silly; it has the bad smell of something essentially fake – they're not stopping to actually think about the situation and come to a balanced conclusion. They're just jumping on an ideological bandwagon, which puts the "rights of the child" above everything – and everyone – else.