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It is incredibly hard for people to understand what being a parent and raising kids is like until they have children of their own. While well-meaning, your non-parent friends can come off as unintentionally hilarious and just a bit ridiculous with some of their suggestions. Like telling you to ‘just bring the baby’ to the rock concert/camping trip/bar they’re desperate to go to.

Redditor u/lohype started up a very energetic and bubbly thread about all the silly things that childless people tell parents. And it all shows just how unaware many non-parents are of how much having a kid impacts your life. The well-meaning silliness is off the charts in this list, and we hope that it makes you smile, dear Pandas.

Scroll down for the best ‘just bring the baby’ moments, upvote your favorite ones, and tell us all about your experience with your non-parent friends in the comments.

Bored Panda reached out to redditor u/lohype, the creator of the insightful thread, and she was kind enough to share her thoughts about parenting with us. She told us that once you have children, it really is like the start of a new era.

"It is a total shift in every possible respect; your priorities, your worldview, and your day-to-day life. Everything you do happens through the lens of what’s best for your child. Furthermore, the goalposts are constantly shifting—my son is seven months old and his needs and challenges have changed completely drastically every few weeks since he was born," she opened up to Bored Panda.

According to the mom, crossing over into the parenting world will challenge your beliefs and assumptions about the world. "You’ll start to see so many things in a new light, from which spaces are not designed with strollers in mind to how political issues could threaten your child’s future." Scroll down for the full interview.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents “Sleep when the baby sleeps.”

My wife replies, “and clean when the baby cleans. Cook when the baby cooks.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The hard one is "poop/vomit when the baby poops/vomits". Practically impossible to keep up.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents I’ve been invited to two weddings recently. Both told me to bring my toddler. My completely feral, 0% socialized because of the pandemic, toddler. To a wedding. With a formal ceremony and a formal sit down dinner. No. No thank you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is nice of you. I have seen way too many delusional parents who think their kids are well-behaved and it's a hell mess

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents When I was nine months pregnant with my first I was so miserable and uncomfortable. I actually said out loud to a friend who already had kids that I couldn’t wait for my baby to be born already “so I can get some sleep.” My friend- being the angel that she is just nodded and smiled.

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According to mom u/lohype, she hasn't noticed in her social circle that anyone feels pressured to have kids just because their peers do. "It has not been my experience that people have children because they feel pressured by other friends or family members. It’s a deeply personal decision that alters the course of your life forever, and it absolutely isn’t the right choice for everyone," she said.

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"I love my son and being his mom, but I have always tried to be realistic in my expectations—I knew it wasn’t going to be glamorous."

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents I’m 36 weeks pregnant with my second and had lunch out with a friend today who said to me ‘it’ll be great, once you’re on maternity leave you’ll be able to go out all the time for lunches and drinks’ …. …. I don’t think the concept of having a baby is quite understood there!!!

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents Here is a great one that I am guilty of having used pre-kid:

“My kid will never/ I will never something something my kid”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't remember what the issue was but my sister once gave me some advice about children that I ignored. Until I had children. I called her and apologized.

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"Just let them cry it out! Just tune it out!"

No matter where you fall on the 'cry it out' argument, listening to ANY baby cry for more than a few minutes is like nails on a chalkboard. It's not something you just 'tune out', any more than you 'tune out' an air raid siren.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its meant to be that way. Its biologically hardwired. its also why cats have tuned thier cries to be baby like. Now you can't ignore them either

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you! My husband doesn't understand why I cater to the cats but the meows rip my heart out. No kids so must be a latent mother thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No baby should be crying it out, smh. Babies cry as a way to communicate

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was a popular tactic in the 80s and 90s because that's what was said in those stupid Dr. Spock parenting books. My mom read them when she had me and soaked all that nonsense in like it was the Bible. Leaving a baby cry in the crib and just ignoring them is emotional and psychological neglect that has lasting effects for life. I know all too well.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was NEVER able to tune out my daughter. I went to her every time she cried and she is 15 now and well adjusted. I can't stand that let them cry business

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My family quite literally had to let me cry it out until I fell asleep when I was little. I was stubborn and I would force myself to stay awake before bursting into tears because I was sleepy. They would try to console me and be like. "Sweetheart you need to sleep." They tried singing, playing a movie, etc, and I would just continue to cry because I didn't want to sleep even though I was sleepy. I would literally just cry myself out. Then one day by accident they put in Jurassic park and I fell asleep within ten minutes. So that became my night night movie.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have twins and the type of crying can signal issues. Mine had heart disease and was dying at 5 weeks ,he survived from surgery, his twin cried differently both are on the spectrum. The cries can signal issues pay attention

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not only is letting them cry it out a bad idea, but doing this in public is going to make everyone else uncomfortable and irritated.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've heard that the babies that cried the most received the least attention and as a result, didn't bond with their parents. It causes trust issues.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not a fan of the cry it out method but then again, I never had to with my son. It just seems cruel to leave a baby all alone to fall asleep. As a baby, the only time my son didn't sleep peacefully was when he wasn't near me and my husband. We all got very used to skin to skin contact. And as a toddler, he did the typical fighting sleep thing because he didn't want to miss out on anything but once we recognized the signs of him being sleepy, all we had to do was gently guide him to bed. Kids aren't very good at lying or hiding their tells.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never let a baby "cry it out." Crying is the only way babies have of communicating. If you baby is crying, something is wrong. Wet diaper. Hungry. Just needs to be held and loved. Babies cannot manipulate you; they haven't learned how.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Parents back in the day were duped into believing this. My mom even said to be "You're spoiling her with too much love by always picking her up." Like, WTF?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then there are those parents who do tune out all the noise/chaos.. and bring their child(ren) to restaurants.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And stop letting them cry it out in public either. It's not ok to let your kids disturb others.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is their way of telling you they need something. Ignore them and wonder why they grow up needy and whiny.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked in retail for 3 yrs and babies crying was a given, every day around 4 pm..never bothered me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um no. Nobody wants to hear that. Also small infants only cry for a reason. Toddlers fake cry and older but they need to be dealt with not ignored.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't stand the noise of crying, it triggers some scary part of my brain where It wants to end the noise no matter what. One of the many reasons i am child free because the anger would take over and I don't want to know what I would do. Thankfully this way, i still have the option to remove myself from the noise.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Foam earplugs. They're a thing of beauty. While i never subscribed to the "cry it out" technique, the occasional relentless and inconsolable meltdown is just unavoidable. Earplugs don't block the crying completely, but they cut that utterly maddening shrillness down to a minimum.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was told the same thing by my family or she would become a spoiled brat. I gave her a few mins then go and check on her. But any mom knows the difference between cries of pain or whatever.

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After ensuring there wasn't anything wrong - he'd been fed, changed, wasn't ill or teething, etc. but was still crying - I'd put him down and leave the vacuum cleaner running outside his door (pre white noise machines). It would help drown him out and he would fall asleep. Fast forward 42 years and guess who loves to vacuum now?

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Bored Panda was interested to hear the redditor's take on what a couple that's sitting on the fence about whether or not to have a baby should do. In her opinion, it's the perfect opportunity to evaluate their lives and goals.

"I think fence-sitting is a really healthy place to be because it means you’re ready to examine what your life might be like with or without children. Nothing can truly prepare you for the experience of becoming a parent but taking your time in making the decision is definitely the best way to reach the right conclusion," she said.

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“She’s asleep, just leave her at home while you pop out.” Like, absolutely no! The idea of leaving the house and leaving her alone scares the crap out of me. (She’s only 4 months old for goodness sake)

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents "Sounds like you need a coffee!" When I was explaining how hard work is when I'm so exhausted I don't always understand what people are saying to me. Tried to explain the difference between long term sleep deprivation and like, one bad night's sleep. "OK that sounds bad, make it two coffees!" She has baby twins now...

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents "Don't stop your hobbies! Just bring the kids along!" Usually said by a married man who's wife runs everything for him so he can just do this thing without the kids messing it up.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess it depends on the kid and thier age, but I was an active participant in my parents' hobbies: fishing and hiking with dad, riding horses with mom. And according to my mother the fact that it was something we did together made it extra special. She still says she misses riding with me.

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"If you feel okay about the sacrifices (sleep, free time, flexibility) and you’re driven by a deep desire to shape a human being, you will do just fine. Personally, I found it easy to anticipate the kinda sucky things about being a parent because everyone warns you about them," redditor u/lohype told us.

"However, nothing prepared me for the amount of love I have for my baby and how fascinated I am by everything he does. I kind of assumed I would feel the same way I do when I hold someone else’s baby—it couldn’t be more different. The feeling I get when my son nestles into me is incomparable to anything I’ve felt before."

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents "Just find a baby sitter for this thing I just invited you to that starts in an hour"

Uh dude ... thats not how any of this works :D

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I will never let my child be in public with a dirty face!

2 years later ...

She's actually not screaming for once and that chocolate pudding isn't hurting a damn soul.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents My family that lives like 1.5 to 2 hours away tells me to bring the baby over to see them. Meanwhile they have never come to see the baby. ... sure... you can't manage to drive this far as an adult but you want me to bring the baby?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a single woman, I always travel to my friends with kids. I’m easily movable and much more flexible with my time.

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Raising kids is no joke. Relationship and dating expert Dan Bacon, a proud father of two, spoke to Bored Panda a while back about finding the right balance between being a strict and fun parent. He stressed that patience is vital, and that parents should realize that children always push boundaries to see what they can get away with.

“In order to be good, functioning citizens of a society, children do need to be shown what is good and what is bad. However, you have to remember that a child is a clean slate and is effectively innocent,” the expert told us.

“The child will often say and do things that could make you angry if you don’t understand that he/she is simply testing to see what is okay or not, or what the limits are. Without testing, the child will just sit there, be quiet and do nothing, which isn’t going to happen,” Dan said.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents "We bought a little something for the kiddo!"

Please...please no more. Our little apartment couldn't fit all of the toys dumped on her. Now, our full size house can't fit all of the toys dumped on her. She doesn't need more stuffed animals. She doesn't need more coloring books. She doesn't need more crayons or markers or blocks. She definitely never needed any stickers, and I will start ending relationships over the continued introduction of kinetic sand into my home (yes, it's better and cleaner than Play-Doh...until it isn't).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You should tell them upfront, and request for useful things instead like diaper and formula if they really want to bring something. Or cake for mom and dad

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents It’s truly unreal the extent to which people without kids don’t get it. My brother-in-law would get on us at the last family vacation for eating breakfast so early….when we did it because the kids were up and can’t exactly feed themselves. They’re expecting now and part of me can’t wait for them to get whacked by reality.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents My friend works nights so when she’s off she wants to meet up during the day, she drinks and I don’t which is totally fine but when I say what time nap time is she always says “just skip it” I’m like “are you insane?”

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“The child wants to explore the world around it and see what he/she can and cannot do. The child will also regularly forget what is right or wrong at times, or remember that something is wrong, but do it again anyway to see if you have a different response this time.”

He continued: “By doing it again, the child often shows you that it doesn’t need to follow a particular rule because the rule was too strict, or unnecessary, which then results in you changing and allowing the child to do it from then on.”

Dan pointed out that parents should be realistic about instilling positive habits in their children by thinking about how long it takes for them to do the same thing.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents I was the first of my friend group to have kids.

I remember them all heading off camping to a huge 3day music festival - minimal electricity, shower or toilet facilities. Like - not even port-a-loos.

I was 3days post partum and they couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t come and just bring the baby along.

They only stopped asking when I said We’d go - but someone would have to take responsibility for disposing of my giant maternity pads….

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that is a new level of insensitivity, even teenagers and single middle-aged blokes understand without being told that no woman is going anywhere 3 days after birth.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents My married SILs said this to me before they had kids.

"You shouldn't have schedules for them. It's really OCD."

A year after they had their babies: "how do you get them to do what you want/ go to bed?"

Sleep schedules. Keeping track of their naps.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Starting kids on a good sleep schedule early in life makes it a lot easier for them to maintain one when they're on their own and settled down as well.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents "You can sleep when the baby sleeps!’

And before my son was born I wholeheartedly believed this, I now realise that while this works for some parents for others (like me) this is a mythical idea something in the realm of reality of unicorns

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a parent of three, I try most of the time to sleep when they sleep. You need your sleep, other things can wait

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“You need to be patient as the child grows up and figures out how to behave and approach life in a way that suits you and himself/herself. One way to think about expecting a child to change or follow your orders is to remember how long it can take you to change a certain behavior as an adult,” he said.

“Sometimes it can take weeks or months for you to stop a habit, change a behavior or take on a new behavior that people are asking of you, so you shouldn’t expect a child to change everything overnight and be completely obedient to every new rule you come up with," Dan noted.

"You have to love patiently, otherwise being a parent will make you feel stressed all the way through the child’s life.”

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“You should/shouldn’t let your kid do X.” I will decide what is acceptable behavior or not. The most common one is telling me I shouldn’t let my kid cry. He’s a kid. When I was a kid. I cried a lot. Many people told me not to cry. I didn’t stop being “sensitive,” I just stopped sharing and resented people for it. My son can cry. Don’t worry, I’ll leave the room. His emotions are valid.

It’s always advice like, as if it’s my first day with my son.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is infuriating and I used to get it a lot as parent of an autistic kid. "You shouldn't let your kid wear headphones at the dinner table." "You shouldn't give in to her tantrums, you're spoiling her." Actually a tantrum and a meltdown aren't the same thing, Karen, and nobody asked for your ignorant input. Do you understand what overstimulation is, how to avoid it (with things like headphones) and how to manage it when it happens? No? Then stay in your lane.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents My friend constantly compares my having a toddler and newborn to her having a ten year old black lab. Not even kind of the same thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have dog, I take care of dogs, but I disagree with kid's comparison. Affection, responsibility, yes, you have to treat pets as family, but there are whole lot of other efforts to make sure the person one brings to the world would become decent and capable human being.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents My boss (who is actually a parent) said to me that if I had any training sessions I didn’t want to miss while I’m as on maternity leave (which are at least several long usually) I could “bring him with me as long as he’s a good baby”. Because we all know how predictable babies are

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm extra bothered by the phrase "good baby". So some babies are just "bad"? 🤨

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents This hits home for me. After three girls it's so easy for other people to say, "Oh you should really try again for that boy!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People keep saying that to me after my two boys. 'You need to try for a girl next!'. Being esctatic with boys and not wanting another kid let alone a girl is like a foreign concept.

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Basically the moment my sister-in-law was pregnant, my older brother decided that he knew all about child-rearing and wanted to give me all kinds of advice about my 2 yo. They were going to babysit while we went to a wedding and he said they were going to grill hot dogs and go swimming. LO had been in a pool ONE TIME for the one lesson I had been able to schedule and never eaten hot dogs. When I explained to my brother that hot dogs are the #1 choking hazard food for kids under 5 and I could bring chicken nuggets/whatever so he didn't have to buy anything, and that I didn't feel comfortable with him going swimming without us there, he called me a helicopter parent and that I was "ruining" my son. A week later they had a party to announce their pregnancy and he introduced me to my sister-in-law's family as "my sister, AKA my nephew's very overprotective mom." Nice.

They did not babysit for us.

Their son is now about 4 months and has barely left the house. Who's overprotective now?

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents I visited one of my friends when I was still childless. She was like a week postpartum and still struggling a lot with breastfeeding. Baby wanted to eat. I was like: “I don’t mind! Just feed her! I’ll just watch!” She was probably too polite to kick me out.

I’m so sorry. I had no idea.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got blisters on my nipple. Latching on was agony, couldn't do it with anyone around. Nipple hardened up eventually, but I look back now and wonder what I was trying to prove by carrying on and not going for bottle feeding!

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I have a 7-month-old son and I’m very fortunate that most of my friends either want kids or love them, so he’s very popular. However, now that I’m a parent myself, I find it some of the assumptions and things they say SO funny, especially since I had exactly the same logic before I had a kid of my own. Probably the most common one I hear is, in reference to a late-night gathering at someone’s home, “Just bring the baby! We’d love to see him!” It makes me giggle because I used to say stuff like this all the time and my mom friends were probably too exasperated to explain the concept of bedtime to me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love dinner with friend with kids.. we have a lot of very organised friends... " dinner with kids?" "OK, not later than 7 pm, menu for kids with pasta with tomato sauce or pizza, carrots and small tomatoes to eat, a table for the kids near the TV, and at 9,30 pm everyone goes home" "perfect , we'll bring ice cream for kids and beer for adults"

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My sister-in-law had a baby right around Thanksgiving, several weeks early after a very high risk pregnancy that landed her in the hospital the last 4 weeks of her pregnancy on observation/bed rest. Her sister couldn't understand why she was "ruining Christmas" by not wanting to go camping over Christmas/New Year's. Keep in mind, the trip was being planned when the baby was anticipated to be born on Christmas Eve...

When he was born around Thanksgiving the sister rejoiced! The camping trip must be on! Only to be let down by her sister and pesky nephew's medical needs coming first. ::sigh::

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“Have you tried 'most common solution'”

No, Brenda. Somehow that incredibly common option that we’ve used for all our other fussy babies never occurred to us. That’s so incredibly helpful you should write a book!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is not bad to suggest something that worked for your kids. If the other person has tried then no need to try again.

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Childless people seemed confused about over stimulation to me. Like why I asked for permission to use a bedroom and I carried a fussy baby to a dark room for rocking. My son would throw his nursing cover and screech if there was too much excitement going on as well as unlatching to lift his head and try to look around at the excitement. Feeding uncovered in a dimly lit, quiet room worked much better.

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30 Ridiculously Silly Things Childless People Have Told Parents I was ranting about the lack of sleep because of the 6 month regression and my friend said "that's so weird, my dog has been waking up to pee at night too! I wonder if he's having a regression"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

3am cat derby. Its very hard to sleep when you are actively being used as a spring board. And having toy mice thrown in your face so you can throw them.

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My bio dad and stepmom would always invite us all over for dinner, always at 7/730. I told them constantly that we will always turn down dinner because I’m not pushing back my infant’s bedtime. Sometimes they’d even invite us over day of, with very little prep time. Please make it more obvious that you guys didn’t have kids lol (my bio dad divorced my mom when I was a baby and I know his ass was no help when I was an infant).

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Kimi Tomminello
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like the invite is just a formality so bio dad didn't feel a bad about not being involved as much as he should be.

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