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[quote=Anonymous]I’m in my 40s and while I can’t really comment on the specific situation OP describes (I would never be more than arms length from my kid in a cart at that age), but once I was carrying a squirming toddler across a crosswalk while also pushing a stroller, a woman sidled up to me and advised “It’s easier if you have the child ride in the stroller.” OH RLY? I didn’t know you were supposed to put them IN the stroller. This was definitely a case of me being too dumb to know what strollers are for, and not an issue of a child refusing to get in a stroller while also trying to run into oncoming traffic. I said “thanks!” and then swore at her under my breath as I walked away.

Moms of young kids get unsolicited advice nearly constantly. We are annoyed because we rarely get actual help. In my case, I would have appreciated a stranger offering to push the stroller the rest of the way across the street so I could hold my toddler with two hands. Anything else is a MYOB situation.

You might think you are helping, but often you are misinterpreting a situation and offering “advice” that someone doesn’t need and will just haunt them at 2am when they can’t sleep (“Wait, SHOULD my kid be eating more root vegetables? Is that a thing?”). No thanks.
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