I'm Such a Bad Parent...

I'm a bad parent. A seriously bad parent. I never should have brought my two beautiful boys into this world. I should hang my head in shame and put my children up for adoption immediately. I don't keep them safe. I'm evil. Do you know what inexcusable thing I've done to my boys? I've exposed them to GERMS!!!!!!

Now the following post was not directed at me by this "friend" on Facebook. It's just applicable. To me, and, well, to most normal parents:

“Can you tell me why on earth someone would bring an infant - not even 6 months old - into a school when students are there???? Seriously - these people should not be parents!!!”

I had to ask for clarification as to what the issue was. Was the infant crying and disturbing school? Was it a former student who was forced to drop out due to the pregnancy and was flaunting the baby like teenage pregnancies are good things?

There were several posts alluding to how atrocious a violation this baby in school was. It really was surprising…but then, lemmings do tend to agree with everything people say. Not being a lemming (but having an idea what she was inferring) I asked for clarification. After having to have her clarify several times, she finally said that high schools are not sanitary places. So my deduction was correct, Watson!

Was the baby licking the floor? Honestly, people what do you expect to do with your baby? According to her post I guess I should not be a parent. When my husband and I had our first child we said that it wasn’t going to keep us from going out to eat, going to the beach, seeing movies (although we never really did see many movies together), etc. Our concern was more if our infant was loud how it might affect others, and we were lucky to not really have “that” baby that was always disturbing people.

If you send your kid to daycare because you work, he’s exposed to germs. We all know that most people don’t keep their kids home from school unless they are desperately sick. They drug them up with all things purple and pink and send them off to daycare and school. This is certainly not right, but we all know that it's what happens.

Kids NEED to be exposed to germs. Now, I’m not saying that you need to bring your infant to the infectious disease center in a hospital, but you can’t keep germs completely away. If you have older children they will be coming home with germs. If ANY of you leave the house and interact with ANYONE you are bringing home germs. You don’t have to heft your bundle of joy into the arms of your coughing cousin, but you don’t have to put him in a bubble either.

What about each visit that newborn has to take to the doctor’s office to check his progress? I mean I know MY doctor’s office generally has sick people in it. I’m sure her doctor only sees the healthy ones!

She’s one of those “friends” on Facebook…you know the ones. Those high school friends who weren’t really friends at all the last time you saw them. Your friendship ended well back and you really haven’t given them much though and then BAM! You get a “friend” request on Facebook. You accept only out of morbid curiosity. You really NEED to know if they've changed (and thankfully most, including this one have).

All I have to say is I don’t think it’s the person bringing their child into public that shouldn’t be a parent. It’s the judgmental twat that thinks that you need to hide them under the bed to keep the germs off that should think twice about procreating!