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

[WriterofWords]

I have a high school friend who has 7 children, two sets of twins and one set of triplets. She had planned on having her tubes tied but for some reason after the Trips it didn't happen and I think it must have been the first time she and her hubby did anything she found her self preggers with the second set of twins. I was at Wal Mart with her when we ran into someone she knew that didn't know she was pregnant again until that moment when she saw her. This rude woman kind of giggled, looked at Teri's tummy, covered her mouth and sais "Oops!" Teri looked at her and said "What wrong did you step in something?" and walked away. She was always a lot classier than me!

 

[chickens4jojo]

You can really have a lot of fun with such rude people!!!

I have three children (yes, only three!) & one man looked at me very dismayed & said he didn't know how I managed with three! He said that he was sure that I didn't want any more of "those"~~He said this in front of my children, too.

I said "Oh, I just love them. I really wish I could have about 10 more. I really do!" And I looked at him like there was something amiss about HIM.

I left him astonished & speechless. Yes, it was fun. He may still be talking about it. And my kids knew I loved them in spite of his unbelieveable insensitivity to their feelings.

Three kids is not really that many & I have never understood why anyone thinks it is their business how many children one has~~besides children are the best blessings.

Maybe you could just tell those rudies that your next child is your new blessing & there is nothing better in this world & that you feel so sorry for those who don't have such a wonderful life as you feel you have with your little ones as they are SOOOO missing out.

Maybe you could say "Are you just a bit jealous?! It sounds that way to me!"

 

[WriterofWords]

On the other end I get aggravated when they find out I have only 1 and act like that is abuse,, the poor kids needs brothers and sisters!

 

[debilorrah]

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AMEN TO THAT!!!! I am 47 and engaged and my son is 19 - people still ask me if we are planning on having kids. When I look at them like they are nuts and say no, they look at me like I am the crazy one. I lived with the hurry up and get married again in my 30's and now its "how selfish are you". WHATEVER

 

[sunnychooks]

Congrats to Asher and all who have wonderful, large families (and not so large ones)!
I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I'm 50 years old and DH and I have never had children. I can't tell you how many strangers think it's okay to ask me if it was "by choice"!

 

[debilorrah]

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Doncha just wanna

!!!!!!!! I have several friends who never had kids, and it has never been my business why!!

 

[chickens4jojo]

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People really do these things...

Unbelieveable.

 

[Sissy]

. Congrats on baby #5
A big family makes for a Happy family and lots of laughs.
ask the jerks if they left their manners at home?

 

[WriterofWords]

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AMEN TO THAT!!!! I am 47 and engaged and my son is 19 - people still ask me if we are planning on having kids. When I look at them like they are nuts and say no, they look at me like I am the crazy one. I lived with the hurry up and get married again in my 30's and now its "how selfish are you". WHATEVER

Yep, darned if you do and darned if you don't!

 

[Henrietta23]

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Yep, I get that too. Either it's "oh the poor boy" or assumptions that he's a spoiled brat. He's neither thank you very much. And it's no one's business why he's an only, but they ask anyway. I've had male acquaintances ask nosy questions only to be rendered speechless by a little TMI about why. That stops them!