The 10 Most Irritating, Least Helpful Parenting Tips

The 10 Most Irritating, Least Helpful Parenting Tips Ever.

by Redbook, on Fri Feb 4, 2011 7:39am PS

I have nothing against friends and family offering advice when you come to them with a dilemma. It's the people who pipe up, unbidden, because they see you with a child and assume you have no idea what you're doing. Too often these people are elderly great-aunts. Fortunately those ladies are afraid of the Internet, so I can rail against them and they'll be none the wiser! Thanks, ladies.

1. "Sleep now, because once that baby comes you'll never sleep again." Technically this is a pregnancy tip, of course, but I'm shoving it in here anyway. Yes, Great-Aunt Hildy, I will sleep throughout my entire third trimester. Because I am part bear.

2. "Sleep when the baby sleeps." Everyone gives you this one — annoying relatives, pediatricians, the cashier at the drugstore where you were buying newborn diapers. Are these people all robots, capable of instantly dropping off to sleep whenever their child is unconscious? Do they not have other things to do, like bathe, or simply relish the rare moments of silence you get when you have an infant?

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Ha ha, as a dad, the one I get most often is #7 your child is the wrong temperature. They pretty much want me to carry an electric blanket around my daughter at all times to keep her skin at near-sun temperatures.