She Told Her Friend That They Were Spoiling Their Son, And She Got Accused Of Crossing The Line Since She Doesn’t Have Any Kids Herself
This woman recently met up with her friend and their 4-year-old son. Apparently, she hadn’t seen her friend in a while, so this hangout was the first time she had ever met her friend’s child.
Anyway, they were just sitting and talking in a restaurant when her friend’s son spotted a bunch of fruity drinks on display. So, her friend bought him an apple-flavored beverage.
Well, after her friend’s son took just one sip of the drink, he threw it into the garbage and started crying– asking for the orange-flavored one instead.
Her friend didn’t say anything about the crying and just listened to the kid– buying a second drink. And, yet again, the little boy took one gulp, tossed the drink, and started throwing a tantrum to get a different drink.
“We’ve only been in this place for half an hour,” she recalled.
“And at this point, I’m trying to calm this kid down, too, because my friend looks distressed, and both of us try to tell him how it’s not good to waste food.”
Her friend began to get pretty fed up, too, but rather than disciplining the kid, her friend just purchased a third drink– a strawberry-flavored one at that time.
Now, she was feeling pretty sympathetic for her friend up until what happened with the strawberry drink. Apparently, her friend’s kid just threw that one away, too, and actually demanded a fourth beverage!
To her surprise, her friend was also willing to give in to the little boy’s demands and started heading up to the counter to buy another drink.
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“And at this point, I was like, ‘Yo, just let him cry. Don’t buy another one. You’re just spoiling him. Don’t give him what he wants; that’s why he keeps throwing a tantrum,'” she explained.
Well, even though she might have been right, her friend immediately got angry with her.
“You don’t think I know that?” her friend responded.
Afterward, her friend accused her of having no right to give parenting advice since she isn’t a parent herself.
Her friend also claimed that she had no clue how hard parenting was. So, she should just keep her mouth shut.
Anyway, after that blow-up, her friend left their meet-up. She has tried to reach out and apologize, too, but her friend hasn’t responded to any of her messages.
So now, she’s been reflecting on the situation, and she realizes that she didn’t really have a right to chime in about her friend’s parenting.
“It’s not my kid, not my problem, and I advised a parent when I’m not even a parent myself,” she vented.
“Perhaps the kid was just having a bad day. And we’re not even close friends, so I feel like I crossed a line.”
She admitted that the kid’s behavior was getting under her skin, which is why she decided to speak up at all.
Nonetheless, she knows that it may have been in bad taste.
That’s why she’s now wondering whether telling her friend that they were spoiling their son really was uncalled for.
Do you think that friends should tell each other the truth? Or do you think people without kids shouldn’t ever try to give advice to parents if they’re not asked? What would you have done?
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