I think it's fucked up when grandparents or anyone else "makes fun" of new parents and their control issues/unwillingness to leave their child. It's an overwhelming responsibility at first - another life in your hands - everybody mellows out after a while. I just don't get giving people crap over being nervous to leave their baby.
Post by mamasaurus on Nov 10, 2012 21:30:36 GMT -5
I would lose my shit on anybody who put my baby in any sort of appliance. There have been too many news stories about kids getting trapped and dying inside of things. Couldn't he have just put the kid in a pan on the table or floor where there is even less chance of something going wrong?
Having now read all four pages, this non-parent wants to hand several of you some fiber and some red wine, so you can finally freaking relax.
BUT, I should probably tell my friend that dressing his kid up as a lobster and taking pictures of him on the stove in a giant pot means he was a bad father, so your fiber and wine will have to wait :-)
Having now read all four pages, this non-parent wants to hand several of you some fiber and some red wine, so you can finally freaking relax.
BUT, I should probably tell my friend that dressing his kid up as a lobster and taking pictures of him on the stove in a giant pot means he was a bad father, so your fiber and wine will have to wait :-)
As expected.
What, that I didn't agree with you? Sheesh, chill. :-)
I would not have found it funny to do to my first kid.
I would have laughed about it w/ my 2nd kid.
I also agree about it would depend on who did it, and I think it stems from the judgement in parenting/comments issue. It would be funny from my parents or brother, who have never made a "geez, you need to relax" comment about how we raise the girls. I would be pist if it had come from my IL's, who made no secret of the fact that they disagree w/ pretty much everything I've done with the girls, starting with when I BFed the girls after they were born, in the hospital.
But I'm probably a bad parent because I put my babies in hollowed out pumpkins and laughed and laughed when they screamed in protest. Babies in random things are funny to me.
I don't get the big deal and I am a parent. However, it does matter on the parent. Not all parents are anxious, nervous the first time leaving a newborn I surely wasn't so I wouldn't blink an eye if my parents sent that to tease me. But, some parents are very anxious, nervous whatever and it would be highly inappropriate Imo. You need to know your audience.
my gut reaction is to the pan more than the oven, so i'm obviously jacked up. that's a reeeeaaally new baby smashed in to a hard, cold pan. if i was at dinner with my h, i'd like to be able to imagine that my baby was all warm and cuddled up with doting grandparents, not stripped naked and squished in to a metal pan.
I'm with frkls. My reaction was more of not very funny because I would prefer they were cuddling my tiny newborn baby- not thinking of funny jokes and taking stupid pictures.