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September 2011 Moms
laurynfaerie
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Very annoying.
laurynfaerie
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I have a friend from high school, who I don't talk to much (I've seen her like 3 times since we graduated 4 years ago) but is on FB.
She doesn't have kids. But apparently feels qualified to make "just wait" comments to me. I assume she feels qualified because she works as a nanny and at gymboree.
I really don't mind those comments when they come from people that actually have kids, but really, between her and my 12 year old cousin (who obviously doesn't have kids, but give a few years) I kind of want to stab someone. My cousin thinks that since she "baby-sits" her neices and nephew (my grandmother actually does all of the work, she just plays with them) she nows all about kids.
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Re: Very annoying.
Aren't those the funnest people ever?! (enter sarcasm here) Try giving them a smarta$$ comment back. I've always liked the, "Really?! And you know because you have kids? Yeah, didn't think so. You get to give those ones back. I don't need advice and just wait comments from someone who watches children. But thank you anyways."
And the comments don't stop. You'll get the "how to raise your child" comments after the kiddo is born. Those are really fun too.
A friend of a friend tried the ''just wait'' (while eye-rolling) comment to me... I asked her how many kids she had... her answer... 0.
So I said (with a surprised tone) ''Oh, so you dont have any real experience do you??''
End of conversation.
Idiots!!
The best is when it comes from my 12 year old cousin. She's 12 for pete's sake. She thinks that she knows more about kids than I do because her sister has kids.
My sister and I are also taking bets on when she gets KU herself, I'm betting by the time she's 15. And it would be funny to me, except that would be yet another kid that my grandparents get to raise.
My mother does the "just wait" thing and it makes me want to punch her in the lady parts, so I have NO tolerance for it, nor do I plan to ever say it to another person. It's such a b!tchy thing to say to someone, and to me, it makes it sound like you hope for the worst for the person.
I'm hormonal these days though, so I'm liable to punch anyone at anytime,anywhere.
I've already had people scoffing at things I plan to do.
And my whole family (that side anyway) is a bunch of screw-ups, so it's no surprise that the youngest is the way she is. She's 12, and has lived with my grandparents pretty much her whole life. Partly because my aunt couldn't/wouldn't support herself/her kids even when she was still married. Now my grandparents also take my other cousin's kids for weekends a couple of times a month.
My grandmother has essentially been raising kids since she was 9 and her parents died. She helped raise her neices/nephews starting then, and then my dad and aunt, and then my aunts kids, and now my cousin's kids. It's pathetic.
I persoanlly don't like when mothers make those comments. Just because they let their kids run crazy or do things I wouldn't doesn't mean once I have a child that I will do the same thing. Just because we don't have kids yet doesn't mean we don't know anything about them.
I think being pregnant is like an open oppertunity for people to comment on anything and everything. I would just like to pass out muzzles to most people.