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Comments from people without kids!

kelseyhhkelseyhh member
in May 2013 Moms
Not long ago, skit from a comedian was going around about people without kids. It got me thinking about how some of my childless friends really don't get it.

Now, I'm sure that I made PLENTY of ignorant comments before I had Em, so this is not a bashing thread. However, have any of you had childless friends make comments that just made you shake your head or laugh?

For example, Emmett got super sick yesterday so I decided to take today off. Being a teacher, I had to go into school late last night to get my sub plans ready. Surprisingly, one of my friends was still there getting work done. On my way out of school she said to me, "Enjoy your day off!" It kind of bugged me so I replied, "Well, my baby has a very high fever and won't stop screaming, so I don't consider that a day off. " To that she replied, "Well, sleep in a little bit at least!"

Now, I get that she was just trying to be friendly and cheerful, but it rubbed me the wrong way. It made me feel like she thinks I'm just taking a day off to be lazy. Humph!

You ladies got any good ones?!?
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  • Shoegal36Shoegal36 member
    Oh, I have friends who would make all kinds of comments.....until they have their baby 8 weeks ago LOL

    They are the type of people that use their Facebook statuses as a diary and an evil part of me finds humor in all of their parenting troubles. 

    We had them over to visit one night when LO was a couple weeks old. At that point, she would only sleep in my arms until around midnight. After midnight, I could put her in her crib and she would sleep a good little stretch. If I would try to put her down before...she would just wake up after 30 minutes. So, I just held her while we sat around and chit chatted and my friend's H kept saying things like "isn't it passed her bedtime?? why is she up so late? do you always have to do this? why won't she sleep in her crib?"   Well.....now he knows. 


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  • john5111john5111 member
    I have friends coming to town to visit and I offered to have them over and Id make dinner and then we could have drinks and play games a long with some of the rest of our mutual friends. (that way we can put LO down for bed and continue to see them).  They then could go out to the bars if they wanted to meet up with some other people. Well then a week before this is happening they text me that oh well we made dinner reservations for 630.  Um yeah thanks...that wont work and they are like cant you just find someone to babysit overnight or cant just one of you come? Oh that will be real fun that one of us will just stay home(were both friends with both of them). Just annoyed how they changed everything at the last minute.
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  • blush64blush64 member
    I don't have a lot of examples but most of the people I work with do not have kids and have no clue about babies or kids. When one woman met my newborn she was surprised he was so small and kept asking if he was normal. She actually asked twice why he was so tiny. He was born over 9lbs so he was not abnormally small.

    There are so many things but nothing I can think of right now.
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  • kmcd23kmcd23 member
    Sadly, it's my own mother who makes these kinds of comments. Whenever one of us visits the other, she has all these big plans for us to things that make no sense with a baby. Going to the movies is the big one, that she just won't give up on. I know some people do it, but I'm just not comfortable with taking him to the movies yet. And it bugs her that I won't. 
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  • ALP514ALP514 member
    We're dealing with this right now. We were invited to A's Godmother's (my best friend) family holiday party. I am the only one out of our group of friends that is married and has a baby. NY is said to have a snow storm tomorrow so I had spoken her today about how I am so mad about the snow tomorrow. I was really looking forward to dressing A up and taking her to the party. I get text with her flipping out " So your not coming? Its just snow! You're so paranoid , I will never be like that when I have kids, she'll be fine etc." Never once did I say I wasn't going. If we get over a foot of snow I will not risk driving A in my little acura ( we still cant decide on an suv) and yes I will be home partying it up with A and DH and no I will not care. 

    I can't wait till my friends have kids so I can express my karma is a bitch theory.


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  • huzzahuzzahuzzahuzza member
    I think my friends don't understand that getting a babysitter is still very stressful even if it's someone we trust completely. My parents are watching J tonight and I'm still freaking.
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  • D&S724D&S724 member
    I have a friend who doesn't have kids (by choice - doesn't want any) and all she does is criticize how other people raise their kids, as if she's some child-rearing expert. She means well, but it's irritating!
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