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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was judged by one person we invited into a playgroup, and eventually we kicked her out.  She judged every single thing, it seemed like, and even after I told her she needed to accept that everyone does things slightly differently and nobody is judging her so she shouldn't judge others, she kept doing it.

And I was judged by one person at work. We had babies within a month of each other and she was at the Mom Olympics. Since we both hung out in the pumping room a lot, there was a lot of time for comparing and whatever I was doing was never good enough.  Eventually, after repeatedly saying things like "I don't think it's productive to compare" and "All our kids grow at their own pace" and "I'm not going to answer questions like that" (how many ounces of breastmilk do you have stored), I told her, "I hope you get help soon," and then always ignored her afterwards. [/quote]

+1. We had a similar mother in playgroup.  She had strong opinions on everything.  She said repeatedly that sleep-training was child abuse; no-screens was ridiculous; women who don’t try breast-feeding are selfish; saying no to a child was always wrong; cows milk was bad; SAHMs are the only true parents (this was rich since she said it to the host’s nanny)... I could go on and on.  And, interestingly enough, her child was the absolute worst behaved kid in group constantly pushing the other kids and grabbing toys from them.  We told the mother we disbanded the group and met without her.  [/quote]

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