Reply to Awkward – neighbors overheard me talk about their DC

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Awkward – neighbors overheard me talk about their DC"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd let it go.

I completely get the tiny comment being hurtful.

I had preemie twins (now 5).  One of my first friends to see them, was like "Oh wow, they are so small.  I don't know anything about small babies!  Mine were so big!"

It doesn't hurt my feelings at all now, but I do think about that when I see her sometimes.  [b]I chalk it up to bad social skills on her part [/b](she does however have tons of friends!)[/quote]

I'd chalk it up to oversensitivity on your (and the OP's) part.  [/quote]

Yeah, I have to agree.  I would probably say tiny too and it is not because I'm socially backwards socially nor think it would be perceived as insulting.  How else would you describe a very small baby?  Since when is using an accurate descriptive word wrong?  What is wrong is what you said about their child.

You really need to get over yourself and the size of your baby.[/quote]

I am the oversensitive PP.  My children were about 6 pounds when referred to as small - so they were certainly small.  We had had various health concerns; they had been out of the NICU for about 2 oe 3 days.   I think it would have been nicer to say, "Wow, they are beautiful! They look so healthy!  They look like their brother!"  Things like that.  I don't think I'm at all oversensitve in general.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics