Is it wrong to blame odd statements/opinions on not being a parent?

[Teeki]

My opinions were certainly different before becoming a parent, I just didn't have the experience to know any better! I thought a friend was crazy and making a rod for her own back when I heard she let her little boy sleep in her bed. Pfft, what did I know?! I thought formula was the natural progression of baby feeding at whatever age, they had to have jar food, car seats always got turned at 6 months. And the big one - I'd never let my kids have a tantrum in public

I was so clueless I was clearly not entitled to an opinion on anyone else's parenting.

[Santosha]

I have worked with children for many years... well before I had any of my own. Part of my job is to advise parents about eating, toileting, behaviour, social and emotional development etc. I have a degree in this stuff and I've worked bloody hard to learn all I know. Yet, pre-kids, every now and then a parent would narrow their eyes at my advice and ask if I had kids. Or just straight out say it, with tone: "you don't have kids do you?!". Maaan it made me so indignant!!! I'd think, I might not have any of my own but I know a lot about their behaviour and development and I can actually see this situation objectively... blah, blah, blah.

Looking back, I get it. My advice was theoretically sound in a world where the parent had enough sleep, time, energy and emotional resources to make it happen. Where siblings didn't interfere, heart-strings weren't tugged and tempers didn't flare. I had no idea what parents manage daily just to feed, dress and entertain their kids, let alone attempting to manage the finer details of social and emotional difficulties.

But I didn't get that. I don't think that I could. So yes, I do think that you might understand someone's different perspective in the frame that they're not a parent. But perhaps it's not fair on them to say so as you just don't get it 'till you've lived it. Just like it's impossible to truly appreciate how mental illness, wealth, travel, trauma, isolation... any extreme life change might alter your perspective. I think you made a fair appraisal, I'd just keep it to myself.

[Sagres]

I don't know if it really answers the question but I always say that it's everyone's perogative to be naive and idealist before they have children and also their perogative for that to come back and bite them on the ass once they have kids
So I'm not sure if I would say I'd blame being childless for making an odd or out of place comment, I would certainly take it into consideration. Just the same as if a pilot told me what I should do with my broken TV, I wouldn't blame the fact they were a pilot for the questionably advice, but I would take it with a grain of salt because it had come from some one with little experience with the subject at hand. I think it is silly to say it isn't relevant when you are comparing the opinions of some one with years of experience to some one with no experience. Unless I guess unless it was a medical opinion i.e. a Dr or nurse would know more than me about chicken pox in children even if they hadn't had experience treating it. But I don't get the impression it was a medical opinion coming from a qualified health professional....?