It isn’t that I’m mean and nasty although after reading this post you will undoubtedly believe it to be so. I’ve twice this week been the recipient of some drive-by mothering so at least I have some excuse for being so darn crabby.
First off, lady I don’t need you to tell me my son’s gash on his eye looks bad. I don’t need you to tell me he needs stitches or steri-strips and aloe vera and OH MY GOD IT’S GOING TO SCAR and WHY ON EARTH DIDN’T YOU GO TO SEE YOUR FATHER?
Ok and other lady – I know how to carry my child. I know I should be gentle. I know him well enough to know if I jingle my car keys while I’m carrying him he isn’t going to wake up SCREAMING and even if he did wake up because the blasted key jingled then so what?
Ugh.
I know they’re a little bit older and they deserve respect for being elders so I bit my tongue & agreed with everything they said which made me out to be a completely incompetent parent when I know myself I’m only HALF incompetent.
Thanks a lot, ladies.
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hey, that sounds like my mother-in-law. Good luck haha
You have all my deepest sympathies! ARGH.
that is just plain rude! what are people thinking? i think you should have invited them over to your house for some worm tea.
Irving: Alhamdulillah both these ladies are not family so I don’t see them all that often.
b.: thanks! ARGH indeed.
LoA: I like how you think. I don’t have worm tea just yet but I will make up a batch of compost juice just in case either of them pop over for a visit
Salamaat,
must be a motherhood thing..i really appreciated it when a younger woman (who has no children YET) came up to me to critique my style of mothering.
EXCUSE ME?
I think we have a sign on our foreheads “please offer unwarranted advice and criticisms” thank you.
I am also Half incompetent pleased to meet you
Don’t you love the spiel about “What you think you know now I forgot 20 years ago?” Well if you forgot it then why bring it up -.-
haaw. that’s terrible.
i’m already hating “the what to eat when expecting” advice, not to mention, how to sit, how to lie down, how to bend, blah blah. i KNOW. i read too.
AND i care about my baby probably more than YOU ever will.
makes me look forward to having a baby and then having everyone criticize every little thing i do.
yay, fun.
Maliha: Let us half incompetents unite! It is most definitely a motherhood thing – I mean in my career I’ve spent over ten years assessing wounds and whether or not they need stitches so really, I think I would know better than this lady.
Mahomed Bayaan: I’ve never heard that one before. Honestly if anyone ever said to to me I’d box them!
Mona: It gets worse, I’m afraid. Welcome to the DRIVE-BY
The important thing is to keep your sense of humour and if that fails…just blog about it like I do 