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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally not a DC thing. I also think it's really poor form for a woman who had her husband there to judge your coping techniques while you had the kids on your own. I learned a lot when my husband went on travel for a month - many of the things we don't do as a family I'm able to pull off because my husband and I do it together. I wouldn't be able to practice the same type of parenting on my own - it's not about philosophical preferences, it's just practicality at a certain point.

I'm sure that woman would have judged you either way - if your kids had made noise, she also would have given you the side eye. You can't win with these people. [/quote]

Did you see OP's confession that she didn't even hear what the woman said?  She is actually the judgmental one.  Sounds like pretty insecure, too.[/quote]

No, that came up after I started writing. I don't know what to make of that one - [b]it's easy to tell when some one's giving you the stink eye, so OP's interpretation is probably spot on[/b], but I totally ignore and avoid eye contact when I can tell some one is actively judging me. I don't want to give the impression that I'm open to a discussion about it, so I just totally shut the person out with my body language. I also try not to attract attention to the issue for my kid - if I'm watching this other person, my kid will turn around to see what's going on. So if I had been in OP's shoes, I wouldn't have watched that lady whisper to her husband. People take it as an invitation. [/quote]

This.

Come on, people.  It really isn't difficult to discern when someone else is saying something unkind.  This idea that maybe the woman was just coveting OP's iPhone is ridiculous.[/quote]

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