My rant: Unsolicited Parenting Advice...

I keep forgetting (willfully) that there are people in this world that seem to believe that not only is there one true definition for what it means to be a man, but they also know what it is.

Did he not go back out there to play again?? You could have taken him home. I'm just saying.

Kudos on your ability to keep your cool. Sometimes, you just need to be coddled, no matter how old you are. Getting hit in the face with a ball hurts. I think the important thing is that he went back out to play a few minutes later. So...in my opinion, he's a tough kid and will be just fine. Stupid idiots...I don't take parenting advice from anyone other than my mother and she only gives it when I ask for it.

When I was reading this, I actually thought it was going to go the other way...

Perhaps, the comment would be made that you let him back to play too soon after he was injured.

Oopsy, I guess that means if I ever have a son, he's definitely going to be gay.

I would be very careful and actually worried of that guy being near my kids. You already don't like that dude. I don't care for his advice, but peeking into his mind though his comments, I don't like what is in there. Bad vibes all over, follow your good parental instinct.

what mother woudnt do that to their 5 year old child? Some people really make me sick.

Have you ever noticed how none of the unsolicited advice is ever good? EVER?

I actually had a lady tell me I need to have another child, so that if my toddler dies I won't feel so bad. >,<

PARDON??? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!!!

He's 5, not 10...Geez, boys need Mommy hugs too. You did better than I would have. I would have probably told them to F Off.

Lol...I have a 10 y/o and Even a 10 y/o deserve a hug from mom every now and again...although they are pretty smelly!! Hahha!! (I know what u meant by that comment btw...it wasn't taken out of context! I just thought it was funny)

I'm a fairly frank mother and don't have a whole lot of tollerance for whining or crying unless someone is genuinely hurt. But that being said. Of course I would hug my child if he got smacked in the face with a ball...and would seriously be irritated too at someone implying I am making less of a man out of my three sons by hugging them when hurt. Actually u are creating a sense of security in children when you react to their needs....the reaction may not always be a hug but children need the reassurance that the parent is "there"

I also don't like unsolicited advice. We were riding dirt bikes one day and our 2 little girls were with us, at the track. They have been going to the tracks for quite a few years and they ride bikes so I am comfortable with them being there. This n'er-do-well comes up to me and tells me that I better watch them so they don't get hurt with the bikes going by. The girls were literally right next to me. In my mind, I was thinking "*****, don't tell me what to do!". However, since I would never do that in front of my girls, I continued exactly what I was doing and everytime I saw her that day, I gave her the "oh, no you didn't." look.

I would have said something sarcastic to those guys.

You handled that with grace and style, much better that I would have. I couldn't see myself sitting in a room with that kind of mentality, ...you must be kind and generous too, to work with individuals so challenged.