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To be so upset and angry because of complaint about my friend breastfeeding?

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memoo · 17/05/2009 14:59

My friend and work colleague had a DD 6 months ago. We both work in a primary school.

Several weeks ago my friend visited her old reception class in school. The class topic has been 'Growing' ang the reception teacher thought it would be nice for my friend to bring her DD in during the lesson where they would be talking about babies.

I've just had a phone call from my friend and I'm really angry at what she told me.

Apparently at the end of the lesson in school my friend needed to feed her DD and so sat quietly in the reading corner away from the children while she BF.

Friend had a call from the head on Friday telling her that a parent has complained about her BF'ing in front of the children

This parent said that her DS had said he had seen Mrs "boobies" and had been a bit giggley about it.

The head is being lovely and only spoke to my friend about purely to let her know what has happen and as far as I know this parent has been put in her place.

I am just so shocked that this parent could do this. I know the parent in question and the more I think about it I#m getting more and more angry!!!!

OP posts:
TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 22:50

How is adopting a child, desperate to be loved and cared for instead, having it all?

It is a win, win situation.

JoPie · 17/05/2009 22:50

"i know gay people are really nice..i know that, it's cool that they can get married now, but they can't have it all can they.!"

Seriously, pleeease tell me you are winding us up, this is actually painful! I refuse to believe you're for real.......

Thunderduck · 17/05/2009 22:50

No it's because you're a bigoted twat.

FrannyandZooey · 17/05/2009 22:51

"i know gay people are really nice..i know that, it's cool that they can get married now, but they can't have it all can they.!"

seriously daftpunk
are you having a laugh
honest now
come on

RedOnHerHead · 17/05/2009 22:51

daftpunk - yes its because you are a white hetrosexual married woman living in surrey.... nothing to do with your opinions at all.

FrannyandZooey · 17/05/2009 22:52

cross posts with many! am glad i am not only one who feels astonished and bemused by dp#s posts

JustcallmeDog · 17/05/2009 22:52

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MillyR · 17/05/2009 22:52

I am confused by the meanderings of this thread. Why are a gay male couple bad parents? Is it because they can't breast feed in public?

JoPie · 17/05/2009 22:53

"i just don't understand why i'm always attacked....is it because i'm a white hetrosexual married woman living in surrey? "

Maybe its because you seem to think anyone who isn't a white hetrosexual woman living in surrey is somehow wrong, beneath you , doesn't deserve the same rights as you etc...

Or maybe its because you are a strangely deluded bigot?

AitchTwoOh · 17/05/2009 22:53

how old are you, dp? i always assume people on here are the same as me, mid to late 30s, but are you a fair bit younger maybe?

Greensneeze · 17/05/2009 22:54

oh dear daftpunk, have you done it again? [sigh]

Plonker · 17/05/2009 22:54

"i know gay people are really nice"

I acually spat my drink at the screen laughing then DP! WTF??? I mean, really?? WTF???

JoPie · 17/05/2009 22:55

Aitch, I think she's either 19 or 72.....

AitchTwoOh · 17/05/2009 22:55

and if that makes me unfit to be a parent, goddammit, then there's nothing right about dp's world.

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 22:55

Reading Daftpunks post I would hazard a guess that she is in her late 70's.

Plonker · 17/05/2009 22:56

You have to be winding us up ...you just have to be ...

treedelivery · 17/05/2009 22:56

MillyR.

Dammed if you do [bf your child with other children around, and act like a woman]
Dammed if you don't [don't bf your child because you are in fact a man]

JustcallmeDog · 17/05/2009 22:56

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nooka · 17/05/2009 22:56

Farmyard animals are great for teaching about the total normality of homosexual behaviour too - especially fields of bullocks for some reasons. Of course as they have normally been castrated it can lead to interesting conversations . Personally I think interesting conversations following on from observing things that are slightly out of the norm are one of the best ways to learn - for both child and adult.

The fact that gay couples are often chosen by adoption agencies to take on some of the most challenging children suggests to me that they are at least as good parents as the average (regardless of whether the average is white, heterosexual and married or indeed from Sussex).

AitchTwoOh · 17/05/2009 22:57

och, all of you stop being so mean to dp. i think she's struggling to express herself here. for once

RedOnHerHead · 17/05/2009 22:57

I quite like daftpunk......
I've always wanted to live in Stepford..............

daftpunk · 17/05/2009 22:58

aitch...i'm probably around the same age as you....not sure what that has to do with anything though.

AitchTwoOh · 17/05/2009 23:02

dunno, i was thinking maybe if you were a very young married in surrey then maybe it wouldn't be so unlikely that you didn't know any gay people. but if you're my age then i can only assume that they find your bigotry unnattractive...

KayHarkerDoesNotSimper · 17/05/2009 23:13

Oh, dp, you do like to be in the thick of it, don't you?

Seriously, I'm about as unshockable as it gets, but you surely must know that some of what you've said here is -inducing?

KayHarkerDoesNotSimper · 17/05/2009 23:18

dp, I think the thing that annoys me most is that you do that 'State an really outre opinion and then go' - FACT.

Seriously. Gay people shouldn't be allowed to have children? Are you advocating sterilization? Childfree ghettos for non-heterosexuals? Will you grant custody to my partner because he's straight and I'm not?

(Oh, hello OP, no, YANBU, it's entirely ridiculous to complain about a baby eating)