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[quote=Anonymous]It’s tacky and awful but I think it is actually VERY common.

It’s usually easy to spot people like this though. They’ve been doing it since before anyone they know had kids. They are the people gossiping idly about a friend’s marriage when she isn’t around, who make fun of how coworkers dress or talk behind their backs. Some people instinctively put down others to puff themselves up, and use mean gossip to bond themselves to others. Then when they and their peers have kids, this behavior just extends to parenting and, yes, children.

I do actually think some people finally realize what the problem with this behavior is when the targets are kids, and finally grow out if it. After all, what if someone talks about their own kids that way? This is one of the ways becoming a parent can force some folks to finally mature.

But many don’t. They’ll do this until they die. They’ll be talking about how their neighbor in the nursing home thinks her new hairstyle looks good but it doesn’t, how their nephew’s fiancé seems like an idiot, how the orderly who doesn’t show up probably got fired for stealing pills. This is just how some people are. It’s actually very sad.[/quote]

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