I hate to be Debbie Downer, but I cannot stand it when people have to make a negative comment about pretty much anything you have to say. This comes about from a recent conversation I had with someone. I know her from high school, and we weren't really ever good friends, but we had several mutual friends, and we get along great...we just never really had classes together or did anything together so we never got that close. Anyway, when Noah was about 6-7 months old I made a comment about how much Shout we go through stain treating his clothes. Her response was something like "oh I can tell you are a new mom. Once you figure things out you will realize that is just a waste of time". So the other day I ran into her at Wal-mart, in the laundry aisle. I was buying Shout :) She said "wow you still haven't figured this whole mom thing out have you". I am sure I have a lot to learn still...but I have figured out that I like my son to look like nice young man and I also realize that clothes are expensive, and if I want Eli to get good use out of them I can take the 2 seconds it takes to spray shout on something so it stays in decent condition. Anyways...maybe it's just the pregnancy hormones, but it really got under my skin. I never mind advice, I can choose to take it or leave it, and some of the best advice I have gotten has been from other mom's just throwing out ideas to me, but I hate those comments that really serve no purpose but to try and knock you down a peg or two. Okay...that's out of my system...on to better things!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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that drives me nuts too! i dont understand why people need to knock your ideas, especially on such little things like shout (btw-- i stain treat everythig too. i don't want my kids looking like dirtballs!) i mean really, what does it matter to these people whether you treat your clothes or not?
totally uncalled for!!! im with you on stain treating - i gave up on the plain white onesies that go under everything, and some jammies that have been through numerous blowouts but anything Grady would wear outside, in public, gets shouted! a few things have made it through the laundry that i didn't catch and now have untreatable stains, and when i discovered them, i almost cried! i dont think i can ever complain enough about "advice".
i was talking to a preggo friend of mine last week and she was telling her that A MAN was giving her advice on labor!! when she said she didnt know if she was for sure getting drugs during labor, he told her she would, its agony, etc!!! i guess he and another guy sat there for 10 minutes during their lunch with her going on and on about labor and other pregnancy/childbirth advice!!! she said she looked at them and politely told them how interestng it was that 2 people who can and will NEVER know what it's like, would be giving advice on pregnancy/labor!!
sorry i hijacked, i just couldnt help myself.
Yeah well... now your second kid can use Noah's clothes, so obviously you were doing something right!
But maybe with the second kid you won't have as much time to pre-treat the laundry... who knows! But that is a very odd thing for someone to comment on. Who cares how someone else does laundry??
Wow, what a jerk! I use Shout as well when needed. I don't run around with stains all over my clothes and I don't want my children to either. Clothes are expensive enough as it is with as fast as they go through them. I want to be able to pass them on to someone when we get done with them as well.
Wow, maybe this person is just a slob? After four kids I guess I haven't learned.
Some people just do not understand, the way your kid looks is a direct refection on you. If your kids look like crap, people think of you as "trash".
Granted I buy cheap clothes when the kids are little, they outgrow them so fast I can't see myself spending a lot. BUT I still want my kids to look and be clean.
LOL, I guess I'm the exception to the rule, I rarely, if ever, stain treat stuff...but then again, if I had a washer here I might, but unless it was a big spot, or a REALLY different color, i just tossed it in without a treatment....
but that doesn't mean I would go out of my way to be-little someone who does.
I use shout on the clothes that i know have spots but i also use the new tide gel packs you just throw in the washer because alot of the time i miss stuff on T and A clothes it seems to work really good.
Rachael-I got a sample of that awhile back at gymboree and haven't tried it yet...thanks for reminding me!
LOL - I guess she'd say I don't have the mom thing figured out either! I just finished Shouting Ethan's coat.
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