Excuse me???? Who made you parent of the year? (vent)

bonchat21 · May 2013

I feel like lately I have been encountering a lot of stupid comments from people and normally I just ignore it or smile and walk away. This week it seems to be on overdrive unfortunately. The first one was an old lady that told me that I shouldn't be putting headbands on my daughter because it will restrict her brain growth. She also pointed out that it's making my daughters' ears stick out. (It wasn't.) I told her that her ears are naturally like that and she said I should be putting her ears under the headband then to help them stay back! Excuse me?! My daughter is not Dumbo and her ears are fine! (for the record, she only wears headbands when we go out and I size them correctly.)

The next one was with my father-in-law who was teasing my daughter with a chip. She is on solids but obviously there are a lot of things that she can't eat yet. I told him multiple times to knock it off and he kept blowing me off saying he has done this a lot of times until I finally lost my *** and said (yelled) "I am the mother and I said no!" That got his attention.

The final thing was having one of my baby-less friends preach at me how to keep my baby from being a picky eater. I love this friend dearly but I hate it when people that don't have kids know exactly how to raise them. I'm glad their invisible children are perfect.

For the old lady, I hope your girdle breaks loose in the grocery store line and you have to pick it up off the floor. For my FIL, I hope your cholesterol goes through the roof from eating those chips and the doctor puts you on a restricted diet of purees. For my baby-less friend, I hope you have triplets and they only thing they will eat for you will be chicken nuggets and marshmallows. There, I feel better

Empireceo · May 2013

So annoying but everyone's an expert. Your friend will def be coming to you for advice once she has kids and you never have to see that old lady again. Your FIL? Well good luck with that one!

vettymama · May 2013

This really made me laugh. You seem to have a good sense of humor about it though! You're the mamma and what you say goes!

stephcarter · May 2013

I love this vent. We've all been there, but I couldn't have said it better. "I'm glad their invisible children are perfect" and "I hope you have triplets and the only thing they will eat for you will be chicken nuggets and marshmallows" You're my hero....

BeachBabe22 · May 2013

So annoying! Why do random people feel the need to give their parenting advice to strangers?

GIJoLana · May 2013

I totally feel ya! I'm a stylist and all my clients are constantly asking how the baby is and I almost want to lie. It seems like I can't do anything right in their eyes, because obviously they were perfect mothers and had perfect babies! The other day I had one of them almost disgusted that my son isn't sleeping 12 hours straight at 6.5 months. I politely asked her if her babies were formula fed they were and I explained 1.breastmilk digests quicker and a lot of BF babies can go up to a year waking 1 to 2x's and that's normal. 2.He's learning about separation anxiety and where he used to wake and fall asleep on his own now he raised mommy's not there. 3.he's teething 4.he's more mobile and thinks it's fun to practice in the middle of the night. I shouldn't HAVE to explain myself!!! He is one of the happiest babies I know and it's a phase, he'll get back to his 1 time a night waking and if he doesn't sleep 12 hours straight until he's weened, so what, I don't care! I am a mom and this IS what I signed up for. He's worth every bit of any kind of stress. I revolve my life around his not his around mine. THAT'S A MOM!
I'm really proud of your spazz on the FIL!!! I've been very close on my MIL!

melody921 · May 2013

LOL at invisible children. When DS was born, one of his ears was folded in half because he had been leaning on it in utero. I thought it was adorable. It started to unfold once he was out of the womb, but even today it's slightly bent at the very top. When he was only a few weeks old, my FIL asked what we were going to do about his ear and if it would require surgery. My mom suggested I tape it back. A woman I barely knew exclaimed, "What's wrong with his ear?!" They truly thought they were being helpful (well, the relatives at least), but I could have slugged all of them at the time.

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