thread: Do you judge other peoples parenting?

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  1. #14
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    Dec 2007
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    Yes, I am a judgmental a**hole. That being said, unless a child is in danger I don't comment unless I'm asked - just do the disapproval thing behind their backs where it's not going to hurt anybody's feelings (ONLY to my DH or my mum though, I'm not the kind of person who goes around gossiping about others - I know DH and mum would never spread it around and have it come back to bite me). I know I'm not perfect, and I'm sure there are plenty of people watching what I do and thinking, 'Gaah, can you *believe* that woman?' so I guess I'm just a believer in 'live and let live'. We all have different means and methods, I personally think I know what is best for my family and I (that being said, I am constantly researching, asking questions and advice and educating myself on new and better ways to make sure everybody in my house is happy and healthy, it's not like I just say, 'This is how I'm gonna do it and to hell with what anybody else thinks'), so I'm open to advice and others' experience, but at the end of the day my choices are my own and so are everybody else's.
    I have a friend who has a little boy around the same age as DD, and honestly there are times when I want to just wring her neck when I see how she is with her DS... but if I ever say anything, it's worded in such a way that she would see it as a suggestion or advice from another person's perspective, rather than 'OMG you suck as a mother and you should do things this way'. Obviously it's nothing serious, her parenting choices don't impact on me and her son is happy, safe and relatively healthy so I keep my nose out of her business.
    Last edited by Glamourcide; February 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 PM.