Oh No You Didn't Contest

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Announcing the Winners!

A big thank you to everyone who participated in the Oh No You Didn't Contest! I can't believe some of these rude comments you got about your parenting styles - unbelievable. I really appreciate everyone participating and I'm happy to announce the winners...so, we they are...drum roll please...

The First 15 Bloggers to Enter:
Dawn
Andrea Tannouri
Bekah
Malia
Hamsterkitten
Jerri Ann
Kristen
JJ Blum
Maureen Miller
JennyOnTheSpot
Sarah
BR Garcia
Michelle Byerly
Felicia
Elizabeth

The 5 Bloggers with the Most Comments:
Felicia with 52 comments
Andrea Tannouri with 43 comments
Elizabeth with 13 comments
Jenny with 11 comments
Sarah with 6 comments

And, the Grand Prize goes to JennyOnTheSpot for having the funniest blog post - determined by our friends at Care.com!

Care.com will be contacting the winners directly to fulfill prizes. Thank you again!

CONTEST DETAILS:

Rudest Comment About Your Parenting Style

It’s happened to all of us at some point, whether you are at the playground, school function or on a flight, someone makes a rude comment about your parenting style. They may think they are being helpful, but they are really just overstepping their bounds and making things worse! It could be “can’t you get him/her to quiet down” or “you let him/her eat that?” or “little Johnny, tell your mommy it’s cold outside and you should be wearing a hat…” as you are standing right there! There are millions of them and our friends at Care.com want to hear from you. So, they have developed a fun contest for TwitterMoms, designed around this question that all moms can all relate too:

What’s the rudest comment from a stranger you have ever gotten about your parenting style?

How it Works:
To participate in the contest, simply write a post on your blog describing the situation by which you received the rudest comment about your parenting style. How did you react? What was the comment about? Who was it from? Share your advice on how to handle such a sticky situation. Apart from that, the only requirement we ask is that your post includes at least one link to www.Care.com and one link back to this page.

To enter your blog post in the contest, simply return to this discussion page, post a comment below summarizing your blog post in a paragraph or two, and include an active link to your qualifying blog entry. That’s it! Deadline to enter is Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. PST.

All TwitterMoms can offer their readers 15% off a Care.com subscription with Promo Code: TWMOMS

PRIZES & AWARDS
• The first 15 mom bloggers to respond to the question on their own blogs will win: $10 Amazon gift card and *1 Free month subscription to Care.com
• The 5 mom bloggers who get the most comments on their blog will win: $20 Amazon gift card and *1 Free Month subscription to Care.com
• The Grand Prize winner with the Funniest post or comment (judged by the experts at Care.com) will win: $50 Amazon gift card and a free year subscription to Care.com

*Free Care.com subscriptions can be used by the blogger or can be offered by the blogger to one of their readers.

Total Prize Value: $300

Final winners will be announced March 2, 2009!

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Permalink Reply by Havona Madama on February 10, 2009 at 12:19pm: My favorite day was when I was in the sandbox in a playground in Central Park. My daughter happened to be in a sand eating phase, she just loved the stuff. Many disapproving looks ignored, I was unable to escape the one parent who said "you know you shouldn't let her eat sand, its filthy". My response, "I know I am a terrible parent, but don't worry I put $50 a week in a therapy fund for her to talk to her therapist about it".

That is when I created several of the No Baby Talk line of T-shirts check them out and suggest new ones - especialyl shirts to put on your baby/child which pre-empt the rude comments

www.dulcetclothiers.com

I own the company with my daughter to pay for her future therapy. And, it is my current therapy.

Permalink Reply by Maureen Miller on February 10, 2009 at 12:25pm: http://handicappedparents.blogspot.com/
I wrote a quick little story about a woman commenting on my public display of breast feeding - GASP!
She was a hoot.

Permalink Reply by Lisab on February 10, 2009 at 12:56pm: When I returned to work part-time after maternity leave, a lady came into work and we engaged in a conversation. I mentioned to her that I had had a baby 7 months ago and she looked at me in disgust and said "If you weren't prepared to be a stay at home mother then you should never have had children"!!!!!!
My own mum told me I was a lazy cow because my 18 month old daughter wasn't out of nappies yet! And another favourite was " What crap is mummy feeding you today " as I fed my daughter home made food. "There's nothing wrong with the jarred food, you're just a snob" she'd say.

Permalink Reply by beta mum on February 10, 2009 at 1:02pm: "You ought to take him to the doctor and get him put onto Ritalin"

This was from my mother, who brought up one hard-working, adult-focused, eager-to-please girl (me).
My son is one of two and couldn't give a monkeys about what adults think - except when he's on the trail of pocket money.

Permalink Reply by B. R. Garcia on February 10, 2009 at 1:07pm: My mother-in-law of less than a month called the police on me for child abuse because I wouldn't let the kids eat all the candy they wanted. Not sure if that's a rude comment, but it was certainly a rude gesture ;-)

Permalink Reply by jennyonthespot on February 10, 2009 at 1:34pm: This is good stuff... :) I just posted... about my screaming child at swim lessons and what the mom of the NOT screaming child said...

http://www.jennyonthespot.com/2009/02/mom-fail-the-reprise-of-a-pas...

Permalink Reply by JJ Blum on February 10, 2009 at 1:38pm: Andrea,
OMG I can completely still hear those words ringing in my ears!

Andrea Tannouri said:
This will be my first time entering a blog contest and I am really excited!

My post is about the always popular with people subject of breastfeeding your child. Everyone has an opinion about this one and they always feel inclined to give you theirs. For example:

“You’d better wean her soon or she might turn into a lesbian”
“Excuse me, are you breastfeeding her HERE? Don’t they have a place for you to do that?”
“You’ll have to wean her before she’s two because you can’t breastfeed after she’s two, it’s illegal.”
“You better wean her soon or she’ll NEVER want to quit.”
“What are you going to do about THAT when she goes to school?”
You are STILL nursing your daughter? How old is she?”
“You’re STILL nursing? I thought you were going to wean her?”

These are the ones I can remember at 3am, I'll look in my journal to see if there are any other good ones, or bad ones, I should say. =)

Here's the link to my post:

http://holistic-show.com/blog/the-rudest-comments-i-have-ever-gotte...

Thanks Megan, Care.com and all you TwitterMoms!

Permalink Reply by Karen on February 10, 2009 at 1:40pm: I don't blog, so I can't enter. But the rudest conversation I had was when we only had 4 children and someone from the county had lunch at the same place we did. She came over to our table after her meal and told us that the county offers "family planning" assistance. She went on to advise us of the many benefits that the county has to offer. (yes my children had clean clothes on that day ;-) )
She then decided to ridicule how terrible it was that I had to be a SAHM to all these children, and how she knows because she had had 4 children and she knows the strain that motherhood put on her marriage that ended in a divorce. As if it was my husband's fault that her husband left her!

You would have thought that I was in shackles and a harlot, the way she was degrading us.

I was so hoppng mad at that woman for days afterward.

then you have your garden variety of comments that you just have to head over to the large family forums for. The rudest of those in my opinion is "that is what they make cable for". Umm, no! reality is much better :-D

Permalink Reply by JJ Blum on February 10, 2009 at 5:30pm: OMG My brother said that to me before he was ever even a parent himself! I could have smacked him!!

beta mum said:
"You ought to take him to the doctor and get him put onto Ritalin"

This was from my mother, who brought up one hard-working, adult-focused, eager-to-please girl (me).
My son is one of two and couldn't give a monkeys about what adults think - except when he's on the trail of pocket money.

Permalink Reply by JJ Blum on February 10, 2009 at 5:43pm: I just remembered a story about a friend of mine.

We've all been there, out at the Mall with two small children. Stop for lunch. 2 year old eats nuggets, fries, juice, Baby nurses. 30 minutes later the baby.....poops! Its only natural, right? Leaving anyway, Lets just change him in the car. Strap the 2 year old in. Go around to the trunk and take out the diaper bag. Lie the kid down on the floor of the trunk and start to change him. Normal right??
All of the sudden, a cruiser pulls up. Lights and siren going full blast. Someone had called the police and reported a woman putting her baby in the trunk. The cop was quite serious and informed my friend that this was "...not a joke!"
can you imagine?

Permalink Reply by Kayla Fay on February 10, 2009 at 6:02pm: When my boys were all young, I was doing my weekly grocery shopping with all four in tow. I don't think the boys were being unruly or anything - although they were boys, and they were (still are, actually) four of them.

Anyhow, a man asked me if they were all mine. I proudly told him yes.

"Boy, I'm glad they're yours and not mine!" he said.

And, for once in my life, my lips formed the perfect retort. "I'm glad they're mine and not yours, too!"

Permalink Reply by Sarah on February 10, 2009 at 6:22pm: http://allhailqueenmommy.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/ohso-thats-what-t...

Simple story; mommy is unsure of breastfeeding, falls in love with breastfeeding her babies, and gets comfortable doing it in public. Thus enters someone not comfortable with it.

While nursing my baby at the mall one afternoon, I get into a confrontation with a woman who will now forever be known as dip-lip because she informs me that I'm out "shaking the goods" at the mall and my husband would not appreciate it. Needless to say, things escalate and soon I'm telling her and half the mall what breasts are for.