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“You shouldn’t put your daughter in [insert any color that isn’t head-to-toe pink], how will people know she’s a girl?”
“When my son was little he had some crazy mystery eye issues (think swollen shut, pus-filled lumps, etc.). We tried so many different medications/drops/creams/etc. The amount of people that said ‘Have you taken him to the doctors’ was insane! I felt like saying, No, is that a thing I should do?”
“If you cut the crust off their sandwiches, they’ll never function in the real world.”
“I got yelled at — yelled at! — because my daughter’s hair was in her eyes. Some guy said to me, ‘She is going to be blind in that eye!!!’ Dude! It was only in her face because she wouldn’t let me put a barrette in it. Calm down.”
“I was told my son might be transgendered because he likes the way his sister’s dress feels when he wears it. The advice I got was that I should start him on hormones immediately. He’s 7.”
“‘You shouldn’t speak to him in your native language. He will get confused.’ I get so much advice from monolingual English speakers about raising a multilingual child and… no.”
“To not reproduce because the child could not consent to being put into this world.”
“You should only give your kids coloring books, never blank sheets of paper, because deciding what to draw is too overwhelming for children.”
“Don’t let them read storybooks, because they can’t distinguish between fiction and reality.”
“Put a bunch of empty boxes under the Christmas tree and when the kid acts up, just throw a box into the fire.”
“It’s okay to drive without a car seat. It’s only a few blocks down the road. They’ll be fine.”
“Conditioning kids is often similar to training pets.”
“When you’re super pregnant and nearing your due date, people say, ‘Oh, get all the sleep you can now, because you won’t get any later.’ It’s annoying because it’s true and I’m cranky about it because I’m sleep deprived!”
“When I was pregnant with my son, a lady who was checking me out at Goodwill said that I should let him cry for at least 20 minutes every time he cried so he would learn not to be demanding immediately. She also said I shouldn’t hold him very much or give him any cuddles so he could be more independent for comfort.”
Stories have been edited for length and clarity.
source: people.com
