Danke, Getupgrrl!
Als (werdende) Mutter sucht man offenbar oft nach den richtigen Antworten auf die falschen Fragen. Fragen, die man sich nicht selber stellt, wohlgemerkt, sondern die man permanent von anderen gestellt bekommt. Noch dazu scheint es sich um ein international verbreitetes Phänomen zu handeln. Auch gut zu wissen.
Wie dem auch sei, heute ist ein großer Tag. Heute habe ich die richtigen Antworten gefunden! Jedenfalls einen Teil davon. Bei Getupgrrl.
Meine Favoriten:
“I don’t know how you can put that baby in day care. Why did you even have a child if you weren’t going to raise her yourself?”
“We needed someone who could fetch the TV remote when we were too drunk to get off the couch and find it.”
“I can’t understand women who don’t co-sleep. It’s so unnatural! They must not have any maternal instinct.”
“That is so true! And women who belittle other mothers, they must not have any social skills.”
“Should you really be eating that when you’re pregnant?”
[starting to cry] “PREGNANT? I’m not pregnant! What are you saying??”
“Why don’t you put a coat on that baby?”
“Why don’t you put a cork in that shriek hole?”
“I can’t believe you let your baby cry! That’s child abuse!”
“See, that’s why God wants you by His right knee in heaven, to help Him figure out how to smite bad mothers like me.”
“He’s not sleeping through the night yet?”
“Only when we put cough syrup in his bottle.”