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Permalink Reply by Nadine Sheree on September 11, 2008 at 11:20pm

Lol - very nice! I wish I could be that snappy! If it's not someone I know, I would probably pretend I didn't hear her and turn bright red (anger/embarassment, lol). And then I would think of the perfect comeback half an hour later when she was gone, lol.

I find it most frustrating when it comes from women who don't have children.

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Permalink Reply by Jamie Squeaky on September 11, 2008 at 11:35pm

I totally understand. I get it from everyone! I tell some of them to just wait their turn is coming. The part I hate is people who haven't gone through living with a 3 year old boy with no fear. He thinks he has super powers and with all the crazy things he has done he has never gotten hurt. So, I think we must be doing something right.

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Permalink Reply by A Cowboy's Wife (Lori) on September 11, 2008 at 11:56pm

Well, I can be a real b****h so I would say something right back in their face. There will always be people that won't agree with how you're raising kids but I'm a damn good mom and I've got some awesome kids to prove it;)

People who think they are better parents than you, are usually quite the opposite. Sometimes people with low self confidence talk that way to others in hopes of making themselves feel good;)

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Permalink Reply by forgetfulone on September 12, 2008 at 10:50pm

People really do that? They must be people with no kids and no earthly idea what you're going through. How rude! I wish I could come up with a snappy comeback, but I'd also be the person who comes up with it after the moment has long passed.

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Permalink Reply by Jessica on September 13, 2008 at 1:56am

I generally dislike when parents don't pay attention to their kids in public (but I'm not talking about normal kid behavior, I'm talking about parents who let their kids run wild around the store like it's a playground and don't say anything), but I've never said anything to the parents. Mostly because it's not my place.

So far my son is pretty well behaved in public (but he's only 8 months old!!! i just mean he doesn't really cry or fuss) so i haven't had unsolicited comments from strangers yet. I'm sure I will one day though, and although I'm naturally a sharp tongued person, I think I won't even bother with an acknowledgement of the comment because in the grand scheme of things, their opinion doesn't really matter.

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Permalink Reply by Keely on September 17, 2008 at 11:11pm

I haven't had this pleasant experience yet but I perfected a really frightening, toothy grin during pregnancy and it served me well for those comments. But I've been told I'm just normally very intimidating.

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Permalink Reply by Christie on September 18, 2008 at 12:09am

My youngest daughter is abnormally skinny she weighed 25 lbs till she was aout 3. We were in the checkout line in the grocery store when a woman said you should quit starving your daughter and feed her more. I didn't have any snappy comment to say, I was so hurt by the comment I started to cry and I grabbed all my kids left my cart where it was and walked out of the store.

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Permalink Reply by Cathy H on September 22, 2008 at 9:52pm

Christie said:

My youngest daughter is abnormally skinny she weighed 25 lbs till she was aout 3. We were in the checkout line in the grocery store when a woman said you should quit starving your daughter and feed her more. I didn't have any snappy comment to say, I was so hurt by the comment I started to cry and I grabbed all my kids left my cart where it was and walked out of the store.

That's awful! Uh, that would just makes me mad. They had the nerve!

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Permalink Reply by Deb on September 23, 2008 at 1:06am

It amazes me that people can be so rude! I love that so many of you can think of great come backs.

I've had people compliment me on my parenting and others tell me what wild kids I have on the very same day within hours of each other. Go figure.

It depends on the day. Sometimes I'm quick-thinking and feisty, other times I just walk away from the conflict.

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