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Fuck people who try to tell you how to parent.
i had biked to Aldi's to do some light grocery shopping with my son. Of course they didn't accept credit cards so someone had to put my food back and I left empty handed. When I got outside it was thundering and lightening out and raining. I was just going to take it slow and avoid puddles so I didn't loose traction and Adrian loves being in the rain, so no big deal. But this older woman came out and smiled and me and said,
"You can't take your son out in that?"
And I asked, curious, thinking she was going to say the roads are slippery,
"Why's that?" Reasonable response.
"Because he could get hit by lightening!" She sounded sorta ticked at this point.
"Yeah well, I have no other choice, I have to get home."
And she tried to argue with me for a minute about this point and I just got so pissed because her tone completely implied that I am a horrible mother because I would take my son out in the rain and he could get hit by lightening. WTF. All I could say was "I'm not going to put my son at an unreasonable risk for anything." I love how mother styles are judged for the smallest thing and it's BULLSHIT. I felt like coming back at her with something like, "Well, you better not get on that bus because there's more of a chance of it crashing than a lightening bolt striking my son." This is the second time someone has questioned how I safely (or unsafely) handle my son, the first being absolutely incorrect, and I know it's going to happen ALOT over the years and I shouldn't let it get to me, but I do. WOuldn't people know that I have my son's own best interests in mind? Seems that they don't. FUCK
i had biked to Aldi's to do some light grocery shopping with my son. Of course they didn't accept credit cards so someone had to put my food back and I left empty handed. When I got outside it was thundering and lightening out and raining. I was just going to take it slow and avoid puddles so I didn't loose traction and Adrian loves being in the rain, so no big deal. But this older woman came out and smiled and me and said,
"You can't take your son out in that?"
And I asked, curious, thinking she was going to say the roads are slippery,
"Why's that?" Reasonable response.
"Because he could get hit by lightening!" She sounded sorta ticked at this point.
"Yeah well, I have no other choice, I have to get home."
And she tried to argue with me for a minute about this point and I just got so pissed because her tone completely implied that I am a horrible mother because I would take my son out in the rain and he could get hit by lightening. WTF. All I could say was "I'm not going to put my son at an unreasonable risk for anything." I love how mother styles are judged for the smallest thing and it's BULLSHIT. I felt like coming back at her with something like, "Well, you better not get on that bus because there's more of a chance of it crashing than a lightening bolt striking my son." This is the second time someone has questioned how I safely (or unsafely) handle my son, the first being absolutely incorrect, and I know it's going to happen ALOT over the years and I shouldn't let it get to me, but I do. WOuldn't people know that I have my son's own best interests in mind? Seems that they don't. FUCK