Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Please Keep Out.
I have had my motherhood moments where I've been out and about with my children and some stranger will come up and scold me for doing something to my child. This absolutly infuriates me! I consider myself an intelligent mother and more than capable of taking care of my children yet I see more and more of this behavior going on. Let me provide some examples for you thats happened to me, When my child was 18mos old I was at the store getting some items for the yard i think and he was drinking from a cup already at this point, I had a drink from BK I had gotten and he wanted to have some, so I let him have a sip, as soon as I knelt down a lady ran over and took the cup from me... she said "how could I possibly give my child that?" I took my cup back and told her to please let me be the mother and ty for your input. She kept at it until I finally had to leave the store... Case 2 I was in ToysRus buying a gift for a friends birthday party and I had my 2 boys in the cart, who were 4 and 5 when I put the toy we had finally decided on in the cart my 4 yr old decided to start jumping on it I took the liberty of telling him politely to quit, when he didnt I smacked him , soon as I did an elderly lady showed up and started yelling at me for hitting my child.. She said she was going to report me to the store manager.. To wich I replyied "you go right ahead" I could go on but your getting the picture im sure, what makes me so mad is that these ladies had no right in my opinion to butt in and take my parental rights from me.. Why cant people use some self restraint anymore and quit trying to take over ... just gets me going I guess.
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Busybodies need to mind their own business.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever had anyone do anything that blatent to me in public, but one day when Eli was in Kindergarten I had Jesse in the sling, Simon on a little bike and Noah on his bike all going down the driveway to get Eli off the bus (they won't let K kids off unless there's an adult there). Simon wrecked his bike so I was taking care of him and Noah took off down the drive. I knew he would stop and wait for me at the gate so I wasn't worried that he would go on the street.
ReplyDeleteWell by the time I got down there Noah had gotten off his bike and was playing in the water in the ditch. Nice! Some passerby had stopped and I thought for sure I was going to get a lecture, but actually he was really kind and said he just was waiting with Noah until I made it down-he was not judgemental at all, just helpful.
I still felt like I had been scolded! However I do see things in public places that I don't think parents should do, but I know I do the same things at times and just seeing someone in a store for a minute you have no idea of the backstory so I don't get involved. I try to offer a kind smile and move on. I've been there and I don't need to make a parent's day worse!
People are just trying to help-unfortunately help is not what they usually do! Hopefully their heart is in the right place-hang on to that!