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I remember standing in line at an Old Navy store years ago holding my son who was maybe 2mos old at the time. I was buying him a goofy hat and matching sunglasses when the woman behind me felt the need to pipe up suggest that I not buy the sunglasses since she’d read somewhere that putting sunglasses on a baby can actually ruin their vision & that it wasn’t healthy. I thanked her and told her that I’d read somewhere that offering unsolicited advice wasn’t healthy either.
Wow that story is a real winner, and I thought it was bad when I was disciplining my son in the store for being rowdy and had an older lady come up to us and coddle my son by saying oh no hes not a bad boy hes a perfectly normal boy, mamma shouldn’t be so hard on him.
I sat there gap jawed looking at her like EXCUSE ME!!! And then said well I will be the judge of that. He is not listening and making a scene, THANK YOU LOL
Actually, I’ll bet that lady did have kids. I don’t think it matters. There are some people who just feel the need to say something about your parenting no matter what. And just think about how many of us go completely bonkers with our parents and in-laws when we have kids. They had children once, and I’m sure they said, “I will NEVER give my kids unsolicited advice or tell them how to raise their children.” Fast forward a couple of decades…
And I have to respectfully disagree about the sunglasses thing. There’s SO much information being put out about so many things. There’s no way to keep up. I’m thinking that woman was honestly trying to be helpful. I mean, if you saw someone feeding honey to a baby, wouldn’t you say something? It seems like it would be cruel or negligent not to. It’s not like you’d be calling her out as a bad parent. We all just can’t know everything.
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Not just parenting advise, ANY unsolicited advise is totally and completely unwelcome!
No, I would not say something to a mother I saw feeding her baby honey. It’s her baby. If she were reaching to feed it to my baby, you better believe I’d say something.
Not everything you read is correct, things change overnight and at the drop of a hat. For every study you read there are two that say it’s wrong. Parents need to eventually stop putting so much faith into the media and “studies” when what is true today is false tomorrow. You’ll only drive yourself crazy.
Whatever study you read or news report you heard, keep it to yourself, I don’t need to hear it. Just for the record, the sunglasses were being used to take a few pictures. Honestly, who ever knew a 2 month old who kept sunglasses on for such a period of time that they caused eye damage? Also, who actually funded a study for that??
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Is this possible?
I hate unsoliticated advice! I’ve heard people say all kinds of things. Many which aren’t true. I one time had a woman trying to give candy to my one year old. HE’S ONE! HE’S NOT ALLOWED TO EAT CANDY!
Totally agree! I used to get crappy comments from people who didn’t approve of my daughter’s use of a pacifier. Too bad, so sad! And it was a MAN who said it, I believe I said something like “go grow a uterus and then we’ll talk”.