If you don't have children, then you have no right...

Alright, if you don't have kids, then you really have no room to insult people's parenting skills. Granted, if you see some creep swearing at their kids, then, yes, but, if it's something minor, then just keep it to yourself.

Story:
I was talking about our youngest son. He's a total pain to burp, plain and simple. We bought those liner bottles that collapse to keep air to a minimum, but, he still gets huge gas bubbles, and sometimes you have to burp him every 1/2 ounce, and it often takes an hour to burp him. I've gone from one feeding until the next just holding, rocking and rubbing his belly to try to work the burps out. Now, I didn't say all of this, I just made one statement: "he's a pain to burp" and some moron went off on a tangent. Just a random guy that I've never seen, never talked to, nothing. He was like "oh, you're a reeaaall great mother, talking about your son like that" I was like, "umm, excuse me?" then he goes on and on about how I'm a bad mother and I don't deserve the blessing of children, and how I don't have the patience to be a mother. I was like, "excuse me, how many children do you have?" his response, "none, but I know that you're one of those mothers that strangle and drown their babies". OMG, I had to walk away, you can't even understand how badly I just wanted to smack some fool for insinuating that I would ever hurt one of my children. It's like, when YOU sit up for four hours straight when you're tired, to hold and comfort a baby with a belly ache that you can't burp, THEN you can tell me all about patience. I mean, EVERYONE who watches him, or watches me feed him says the same thing, "wow, he's really hard to burp!" There have even been times that we played "pass the baby" because everyone was trying to burp him, without success, lol. Yes, it's frustrating, but if anyone tells you that babies/children aren't, then they've either never had a child, or they're lying. BUT, getting frustrated doesn't mean that you're some psycho who will actually get mad or hurt your child. Sleepless nights and frustration are just a fact of life, just as love, happiness and pride are. But, the guy actually said "you shouldn't ever say anything negative about your own children". Umm, first of all, I wasn't really saying anything negative, just saying that he's a pain to burp, I wasn't saying it in any awful tone or anything, just having casual conversation. My only assumption is that maybe he had a bad mother or something, but who knows, he could just be one of those folks that thinks he knows everything and sits on his high horse criticizing everyone else. /rant

 

Lol. Yeah, two kids can be more frustrating, but, sometimes just one kid is frustrating, especially if you get the luck of the draw and get a child that needs a LOT of attention. Some are like that, and people don't get it. When I said that I wanted another child, I was insulted for it. People were saying "oh, you don't know what it's like to have two children" (umm, duh...) and "your first one has you spoiled, you think that since he's such a good kid that the next one will be too". Umm, again, if I thought I was going to have two identical children, then, well, that's just stupid, lol. I just hate how people are so judgemental, but it's even worse when they really have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Even if you DO have children, that doesn't mean that you know how someone else's child is, or how you would react in a different situation with a different child. Honestly, I try to keep my nose out of other people's business, especially with children, but, there was one time that I could have smacked some mother. She had a baby, *maybe* 6-9 months, and it (not sure of gender, it was only wearing a diaper, so no clues on gender) was trying to stand up in the seat. The mother was screaming and cussing... "I'm going to beat your darn a if you don't sit the eff down". And, no, she wasn't saying "eff" or "a", she was actually saying it. I felt terrible for that baby.