Parents of big families...I need GOOD come backs for idiots!

[sundance]

congrats

I was 39 when our youngest was born,I also got some strange questions. esp, aren't you a little old to be having a baby?I usually answered, gee I didn't know there was an age limit, is that why you don't have any? Kids or not most people shut up marrie

 

[asher]

Thanks you all!

I worked today and told the clerk she really upset me Wednesday. She said WHY? I told her I realized the more kids I had, the more people felt it was their right to comment, but she was the first one that had so far and I didn't appreciate it.

She realized then that even if she was joking around (which I think now she may have been, again, very dry humor), it CAN be hurtful. BTW, one guy at our office has 10 kids.

She said "Hey, you're not as bad as him, yet!"

Of course then she asked "Can't you get fixed?" I gave her "the look"

and the rest of the day she was very nice and didn't make any negative comments about the babe. Everyone else I told was VERY nice about it.

I do know I'll get plenty more negative comments, but I really enjoyed this thread.

 

[agnes_day]

oh i had forgotten about the "fixed" remarks!
just say "why fix it if it isnt broken??"

 

[FrChuckW]

Quote:
Angie, don't you know beauty is skin deep but dumb is forever!
(Thank you Judge Judy!)

Of course you could always use one of my personal favorites:

When someone makes a rude comment to me, I usually say to them, "Well that just proves it." Of course they usually are stupid and ask "Proves what?" My Reply, "Why some animals eat their young!" I smile and walk away.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

We have an only and I get rude questions and comments constantly.
Family finally learned to shut up.

My fave was "Is she your only?"
My reply - "No we got tired of the other two and gave them away"

Another good response is turning around quickly and "looking" for the "other kids that were JUST with me"
Or breaking down in fake tears sobbing. I am really good at that.

Stops people dead.

Congratulations on your newest.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

First off congrats on the baby, how wonderfull. Second thanks all for sharing. Third thanks mods for keeping this safe.



I am the 13th by a minute, and my Mom was in a convent going to be a nun, came home before final vows and met and married my Dad. You really have no idea how rude people can be LOL.

I have 4 kids. I choose to stay single. I raised all my kids by myself with no help. I worked really hard and have great kids. I got all the lines.

You do know how this happens right? Yup I should I had to stand on my head for it to work.

If they were really bad I would grab the person and start moving them looking all over and they always said what you looking for? Your manners you must of dropped them somewhere.

As I choose to be single I really got the remarks. The one used most was why didn't/don't you marry him? Hey I already have enough kids why would I choose to re-raise a child that someone else aready screwed up.

And my very favorite seeing as all my kids are birth control babies is? Why do you keep having children? Because if there is a loose sperm out there it is going to find me?

I will leave on that note. Thanks for letting me share.

 

[Wildsky]

It amazes me how many people think its perfectly OK to have their opinion heard about a couple or persons private stuff!

Like folks who want to come up and touch your pregnant belly - that IRRITATED me so much.

I only have three kids, but chose to have the last one at home after an emergency c-section with the second. I did my research, and made up my mind, but folks (mostly family mind you) just HAD to have their say, RIGHT up till I was in LABOR - telling me how DANGEROUS it was! JERKS. I was within 15 minutes of a HUGE hospital at the time, and felt very safe and comfortable having my baby at home in my own dang bed - THANK YOU!

I didn't have any snappy come backs - I just ignored the talk.

 

[crtrlovr]

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Honey, this would have been the time to say, "I need to see a manager, please. RIGHT NOW." This checker's behavior was inexcusable, and she should never have been allowed to get by with it.

Your children in number, ethnicity, gender, cultural standing, economic standing, and behavior (unless they're bouncing off the walls, pulling stuff off shelves, endangering other shoppers or just acting the fool in general) are NONE OF HER BUSINESS, PERIOD. She should know better than to spout off something like that, even if she was stupid enough to think she was being cute or funny.

 

[crtrlovr]

When I married my husband, I inherited his 4 children, the oldest of which is 6 years younger than I. Many people have asked us why we didn't have our "own" children, and I tell them that the reason is because I got all his others right at the point when they all lost their minds, (ages 13, 12, 10, and 9) and that we had all the "fun" we could stand, and were lucky to have all reached adulthood with no deaths or no one going to prison for murder...

 

[kodiakchicken]

I read the beginning pages of this post and then just read the last, so don't know if anyone gave you this one, but I thought of it the other night.

When someone asks you why so many, just say:

"My husband and I are planning to take over the world and this is the beginning of our army."

That will make them stop long enough for you to just walk away.