Stupid things parents of typically developing kids say...

[Anonymous]

Here are some I've gotten..please share yours

I don't know why you are so worried about milestones. He'll do it when he's ready. He's not retarded or anything. He looks normal and he walks normal. Why are you so worried?

Your getting your young child therapies?? You make him go to OT and ST? We would never do that to our kids. We just accept our kids for who they are. All kids have strengths and weaknesses and we love our kids and embrace their differences. He'll do things when he's ready. You can't rush development. He'll just resent you later on.

I am sooooo sick of all these new rules because of the kids with food allergies. One kid has a life threatening peanut allergy and the whole class has to be peanut free?

Oh please..these days EVERYONE is autistic. Give me a break. Your kid is fine. He doesn't rock or bang his head or anything.

My brother talked and walked late and he's fine. Don't worry about it.

Why does he cry so much?

Has your child started to (fill in blank with milestone..walk, talk, ride a bike, etc)? Whaaaaaat? He still isn't talking??????

"Bertha's" kids are all well-behaved. You may want to get some tips from her.

[Anonymous]

If you would just let him fall down a lot more, then he'd learn to ___ faster. [answer: no, he'd just be missing more teeth or have a busted nose. But he still wouldn't know how to ____. ]

If you would just enroll him in a huge daycare / big preschool / drop off chaotic Mom's Day Out ... then he wouldn't be so sensitive to noise / commotion (said re: my sensory HFA kid.

[Anonymous]

She will start talking any day and then you won't be able to shut her up. (DD has apraxia.)

What?! Why is he in speech therapy?! (He has been for two years. Yes, he did wonderful the five minutes you let him speak but we --and also his preschool teachers-- know he still needs to go.)

[Anonymous]

My personal fav:

Give him time. He will grow out of it. Don't label him it follows him. Hide it now b/c he will be fine later.

[Anonymous]

You are soooo lucky (to a parent of a child fed 100% by tube). You know exactly what your child eats every day, you don't have to worry about whether green veggies or orange veggies are better. I have to worry all the time. My child doesn't eat a single protein except chicken. . . and black beans. . . and eggs . . . oh and this one brand of fish filets but they HAVE to be crunchy . . and sometimes salmon.

[Anonymous]

You don't know how easy you have it, with her not walking. You will look back at these days and count your lucky stars.

She just needs to get up off her ass.

Surely it's just a light case of cerebral palsy. She's so smart.

Have you considered physical therapy/speech therapy?

The sign say you can't bring your stroller in here [it's a wheelchair]

Did you have an amnio?

I couldn't do what you do (my very, very least favorite and I can't imagine what they would think my response would be? That I would dump my child by the side of the road?)

[Anonymous]

My child is a picky eater too (my child is tube fed!)

[Anonymous]

At least she is smart, she has that going for her (aspergers)

[Anonymous]

Have you tried feeding her sweet things? Kids like sweet stuff (tube fed)

[Anonymous]

Have you tried graham crackers or pirate's booty (when I said that my son could not "even" eat a cheerio when he was 19 months old)?

There's no way your child is 4. How can he be 4? He is smaller and less capable than my 2 year old!

What is wrong with him (when I mentioned to a mom that DC was 1.5 years older than her child in the same class)?

[Anonymous]

I can't believe you give your child speed.....

DS has ADD.

[Anonymous]

It's really bad for him to eat all this fatty food. He'll become obese soon! You'll permanently damage his liver with all this food (says my mother about my son who is on a fattening diet, way below the third percentile, and I can count all his ribs).

He doesn't qualify for services - he's not delayed enough, plus he's bilingual so it's normal that he can't talk correctly (said the county speech therapists when he was 3 and his other bi or trilingual friends were talking rings around him).

Him? ADHD? But he's not hyper at all! (No, he's so inattentive that I have to repeat the same request 100 times).

[dedicateddad]

I don't know if anyone else said this or not, I overheard 2 women having lunch last summer and the one woman said something like "It can be so difficult when you have a special needs child" and the other woman said "If you don't mind me asking, how retarded is he?"

[Anonymous]

"If you read to him more, he will become a reader" "I have always been a terrible speller. Thanks goodness for spell check" Child is dyslexic and spells so poorly that spell check doesn't help.. And then from his own Grampa. I have the same problem with letter reversals..when I type I always do "teh".

[Anonymous]

So, I guess you won't want to have any more kids. (our babysitter said this to us)