When people only see me with my 6 year old they try too, but not so much with the teenagers. I would love to say “F%& YOU!”, but if I am really annoyed I answer with the fact that I already have two teenagers and have taught preschool for more than a decade, and have gone to school for this. It usually shuts them up. But yes moms get it just as often, especially if they look young, and I do.

oooooooooooooh my gosh…sir…you OBVIOUSLY have FAR more patience than I do. I don’t take that crap well, and to answer your question about moms, yes, at least the young ones do. I was in walmart with my little girl just a few weeks after she’d been born and she was wrapped up in her quilt as it was chilly out and some woman tried to TAKE my daughter from me and show me how to “properly” wrap her up….I turned away so she couldn’t touch my child and told her if she wanted to keep her hands, she’d better keep them away from my child and what did she think she was doing just grabbing for someones kid, didn’t she know that made her look like a kidnapper?! She stared at me like I’d lost my mind, but seriously….do NOT touch my child, I don’t know you lady!

fabulous. Old ladies always tell me that my children are cold. It is not that helpful.

I recall times when my small, 17-yr-old daughter would help by taking care of her 2-yr-old sister, after my wife died in a car accident. There were more than just a few grown women who would offer their opinions of a “child raising a child” – or “How old were you when you got pregnant?! My teenage daughter never got herself pregnant!!” I was raised with inhibiting manners – now that I have thicker skin, you would have read the news about various women getting beaten down by an “out-of-control” father. I had five kids when Marie died – four under the age of ten. I am not a good-looking man, and not financially successful, either. I suspect that might be one reason that I could not get a dependable childcare provider, when the children needed a mother-figure there. I really resented the self-righteous older man at our church who declared that his great-grandfather managed to raise his four (older) kids on the farm after HIS wife died – and why couldn’t I be at work?! (None of the other men in our group took issue with him on that, either). Sometimes, WE have to be the ones to act like grownups -even if we are the only ones who see it that way.

ug, I HATE nosy people who think they know everything. They just sap the fun out of a first pregnancy! I’m due in 2 weeks and I can’t tell you how many people have tried to rub my stomach or tell me their birth stories. Eeewww! I don’t want to hear that. I will ASK if I want to know thank you. And no creepy 40 something dude, you cannot touch my stomach or I will sock you in yours. I’ve had to literally step away from outstretched hands, and thankfully my hubby was there to threaten the guy so I didn’t have to.
“what? I just wanted to feel the baby.”
“If you feel up my wife, you’ll start feeling like your HAVING a baby.”
God, I love that man.

LOL I think this is too funny when my now oldest two children were 2ish and 4ish one teenager thought I was about 16 I told him turn around and look at the two kids on my friends swing set! Seriously I was 12 LOL I was 26 at the time. My husband now, and he is Albino so he looks more like a grand father you should see the strange looks we get and comments! Wow your grandkids are so cute yada yada until he points out that he is 45 and I am 36 We just had a new baby in Feb to add to our collection. Between 3 marriages for him and this is my 2nd we have 7 “kids” Ages 27/19/ 15/ 15/ 2 and 1 month. I wish I had a bus. Seriously my favorite come back for some well meaning idiot wanting to rub my belly( only if you have a barf bag handy) I have morning sickness and yes this works even at 9 months along :) I think though the problem is; especially with some older people is the mentality of MOM being the one at home bare foot and pregnant raising the kids. Just because dad wasn’t a 200 lb toaster oven for 9 months ( until those buns were done cooking) Does not mean that he isn’t just as capable of changing and feeding a little person , or otherwise caring for. If you don’t believe me just ask my husband DALE :) I take advantage of his services as a DAD everyday!!!