What's up with the stink eye?

[Anonymous]

Moms aren't exactly friendly sometimes. What's up with "the look" or "the stink eye" when someone is interacting with their kid?

[Anonymous]

Clarification: When I'm interacting with my own kid, other moms (with their own kids in tow) give me "the look".

[Anonymous]

I dunno. Are you hitting them? I think that's the only thing that would make me raise eyebrows....

[Anonymous]

Nope. Just chatting. Normal mom stuff.

[Anonymous]

Does your child have green mucus coming out of his nose?

[Anonymous]

Unless you are doing something truly unacceptable, like verbally abusing or hitting your child, don't pay those other moms any attention. When people are acting ugly, they are generally unhappy with their own lives. They are looking at you and working up skewed scenarios about how crappy a mom you are, desperately trying to build themselves up. Try not to let them bring you down with them. Feel sorry for them instead.

[Anonymous]

I give moms the stink eye when they are talking too loudly to their kid, using a baby voice when child is not a baby, clearly PRAISING the kid for normal stuff loudly enough so that everyone else has to know the kid is amazing, criticizing a child in front of others harshly, yelling, hitting, dragging, grabbing, and negotiating.

I am essentially give every mother the stink eye every second of every day. I am so generally annoyed that I it requires everything in me not to tell certain moms to get over themselves. It is a miracle I am married or have any friends. Trust me. The funny thing is, I know that many people love their kids and are doing the best they can. I just hate to hear them parent in the above fashion. Like nails on a chalkboard. Hence, the stink eye.

[Anonymous]

Wow-at least you are being honest. I would try to focus more on something else-you are just making yourself miserable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I give moms the stink eye when they are talking too loudly to their kid, using a baby voice when child is not a baby, clearly PRAISING the kid for normal stuff loudly enough so that everyone else has to know the kid is amazing, criticizing a child in front of others harshly, yelling, hitting, dragging, grabbing, and negotiating.

I am essentially give every mother the stink eye every second of every day. I am so generally annoyed that I it requires everything in me not to tell certain moms to get over themselves. It is a miracle I am married or have any friends. Trust me. The funny thing is, I know that many people love their kids and are doing the best they can. I just hate to hear them parent in the above fashion. Like nails on a chalkboard. Hence, the stink eye.

Maybe I'm a little slow on the take here, but I honestly can't figure out if you are being sarcastic or not. If not, I feel very sorry for you.

[Anonymous]

Trust me, I try to focus on anything else but the amount of over parenting I sometimes see makes me NUTS! Is it something about this area or is our whole country moving in this direction? I would like to hope it is just this area, but I know the country is trending toward helicopter parenting. And believe me, I judge the hell out of it, but I am guilty of it too! It is hard to escape it...

[Anonymous]

Snarky one here. I am being sarcastic AND serious. I mean, I do not walk around with a permanent scowl, but I do find myself shaking my head quite a bit and thinking "Okay, make sure I never say X to my kid, b/c that is annoying as hell."

[Anonymous]

Some people just lack social graces, and maybe it wasn't noticeable before they had a kid and were forced to interact with more people.

Or maybe these moms are just sleep-deprived? If I've had a night where my kid didn't sleep well, I'm definitely crankier than normal.

I think I'm the opposite of the moms you mention - I can be in a really p*ssy mood, but if someone talks to my daughter, I'll totally brighten up and be nice. (I think she's an awesome kid and I'm psyched when other people think so too.)

[Anonymous]

Why does anyone "care" how others parent? I don't get it...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snarky one here. I am being sarcastic AND serious. I mean, I do not walk around with a permanent scowl, but I do find myself shaking my head quite a bit and thinking "Okay, make sure I never say X to my kid, b/c that is annoying as hell."

I agree with you that there are a lot of annoying parents out there saying and doing annoying things with their children, and I do also sometimes shake my head (usually only in my mind) and make a mental note to not do or say XYZ to my kid, but I'm sure I've also been the source of someone shaking their head from time to time. Parenting is hard, and we can't all say and do the "right" thing all the time. For example, I'm sure yesterday when my daughter started running away from me at the car for the hundredth time this week and I grabbed her by the hood of her jacked and scolded her in public for running away from mommy (again) someone was thinking I was a terrible mom. Like I said, parenting is hard....

[Anonymous]

I care how others parent b/c depending how caustic/wussy/mean/angry/pushover you are, you can really screw up your kid. I mean, we will all screw up our kids in our own special way, but there is some parenting that really puts the nail in the coffin. Come on, all parenting is equal? There are some people out there who should have gotten pets.