"You had it, and it didn't hurt you"

jennOK

I am so sick if hearing that something was always done when I was younger, so why won't I do it now. I was at family dinner yesterday.

I had to keep telling family the baby couldn't have table food. Or let him drink from their glass. He's 5 months old for goodness sakes. No, he does not need a sip of your tea! Not that he could actually get any down even if they put the glass to his lips, but still it's the point if it.

I was also asked if he wanted a bottle of milk. He has milk, his formula. Well, doesn't he want some milk I have 2 percent. Ahhhhh, what is wrong with these people.

Stef1210

My MIL didn't buckle her kids into their car seats, and they turned out just fine. Therefore, I don't need to buckle LO up, right?

I know it can be frustrating! Tell them it's just the way you've chosen to do things and try to shrug it off.

ASmallWonder

I hate this and how you handle it depends so much on what type of people the other party is.  My mother doesn't care a crap about "science" and says that doctors are too rigid now and I'm too much of a rule follower.  So with her, I had to pull out the "You are completely entitled to your opinion and are welcome to think I overreact.  And maybe in a few years I'll look back and agree with you on some of it.  But for today, I get to be a first time mom doing the best I know how and since you already got to raise your kids, you can only challenge me if you think something I'm doing is actually causing harm to my kid."   We don't get along, as you can tell lol

jennOK

Yeah, I use the that's what's recommended now, and leave it at that. But then I got the quack doctors speech.

PinkPuffyHeart2

My brother and his fiance let LO nom on a pretzel rod. I saw it and quickly told them not to let her put it in her mouth... And tried not to freak out at them. They are due in February.

HeartLikeMine3

I told my dad that we needed to do one food at a time so we will know if he has a allergic reaction to something. He said "that baby won't have any food allergies and I can promise you that." Ha I guess he is all knowing!

No longer the best

I feel like everyone is pushing to give LO food! What's up with that? Is waiting to 6 months so crazy?? Why are we pushing food on him so much? He has the rest of his life to eat!! Ok that's my vent.

peachnectarine

I was at a family dinner with grandparents and aunts/uncles and they asked me if he had a taste of any food from our plates yet. I laughed and said, "no!" thinking they were kidding. They looked shocked and said that i was an "overprotective mother." This was when he was 3 months old too!

kgb-13

I've been told karo syrup for her constipation (she wasn't even constipated), been offered puréed potato soup (MIL works at a hospital), told that car seats now are just "too much," and "back when you were a baby we just would have given them a blanket and my generation would call yours crazy". The last was my mom who has been insanely supportive with everything.