...to get annoyed by childless people's comments

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My personal favourite so far is "I would like to breast feed, but not the way you do it" because I don't use a cape to cover me, mainly because the fight that would go on with my dd flailing limbs isn't worth the hassle and would leave me being far more exposed than if I just try and be discreet!

Anybody else got any gems for me?

Well this thread is giving the insomnia something to get its teeth into

Surely this isn't about having 'real experience of children or not', it's about the 'you can't possibly understand what it's like' game

In my experience, people who like playing this game will do it with whatever hand life has dealt them

If it wasn't their children, it would be something else

It's elitist and self righteous and unkind and BORING

Perhaps she is getting even after years of listening to mums' pearls of wisdom to childless people such as "you will change your mind", "it's different when you have your own", "who will take care of you when you're old" and other similar tripe

Before I was a parent, I thought there was no such thing as autism - doh!

Before I was a parent, I pronounced none of my children would ever have a dummy. 3 children later, I became a mass hoarder of dummies.

You get the idea...

Meh.

YANBU to get annoyed with comments borne out of lack of experience.

BUT bear in mind, those with children, the conversation focus (I have found personally, I accept it isn't true for everyone!) generally revolves around children the minute they're out there, so you may have to tolerate it as they're just trying to join in conversation.

Point #1: Sincerely hope "You don't really know about what life is like, overall" wasn't intended how I interpreted it.

Point #2: Oh my gosh, faith in humanity restored. Thank you MN, thank you. To come on here and not see the majority people bitching about the childless/childfree is so different to how people from outside perceive MN (elitist smug wenches, you know) and you have done yourselves a great service.

doubleplusungood exactly! One person in particular constantly told me "oh when you're a paaarent you'll be able to sleep standing up/you'll know what real tiredness is etc etc" - nope still insomniac, nope this is pretty similar to the exhaustion non-parents feel too!
Of course I only have one child, and she has three, so no doubt the reason none of her predictions have come true is that I simply don't have enough kids! Love those moving goalposts.

michael mcintyre is very funny .