Best disguised snidey remark you have had from another parent LOL!

[Moosmummie]

I have had "Oh when your DS grows up I think he'll be head of a demolition company" LOL and recently on telling another Mum I was going to let my 9yr old walk home from school on his own "oh aren't your brave! I could NEVER be that brave" LOL meaning oh aren't you irresponsible - he'll probably get run over LOL

Similar to frazzledoldbag34, when expecting dc5 (already had 1 girl and 3 boys) my mum said "Oh I do hope it's not another boy" . Guess what ......... it was

On my daughter being hysterical at having lost her comfort cushion, and me giving her a cuddle. "it is no wonder your children are the way they are when you pander to them all the time"......no, it is called love!

am not reading this thread for fear of reading a post relating to DS...

When my DS was about 2 and a half we were in a shop which my DS thought it'd be fun to run away from mummy round and round the display! I had started to get a little exasperated until this doddery old lady said to me "perhaps you should put reins on him?"

In my exasperated state I could only reply "he's not a horse and therefore doesn't require reins"!

That made me feel much better.

When DS was born, MIL said "hasn't he got large ears for a baby? His ankles are quite thick too. Mmmmmm. I think he looks like you".
For the record, I am not an elephant.

Thanks for making me smile, threestars!!

Love this! I get "ooh, your DS2 is a little darling isn't he, he plays so nicely at nursery, it's funny how children are not like their siblings". ie they think DS1 is a Complete Thug.

soooo many people have made comments along the lines of "so who's your daddy" about my ds, just because he looks like my side of the family rather than dh's, and has blonde hair whereas we're both dark.. ha ha blooming ha.. the last one was at my mil's where a family friend 'joked' in front of them all "so is he a milkman job then?" - and I think she actually expected me to laugh... ha ha, you're accusing me of sleeping around, ha ha.... I managed not to say anything, but the look I gave her wasn't pretty..

"It's so sweet that she's so attached to you" from a mum who was horrified to find me breastfeeding my two year old at mums and toddlers!

I will admit to saying to another parent 'your DS is so exuberant isn't he' as he chucked yet another heavy toy at my six month old daughter's head

She didn't get it and said 'oh it's his diet, it's so healthy now I've got him on these pills'.

'Ritalin?' I asked?

'No, Sanatogen' I was told

Not disguised at all, but still smarts after 16 years - My eldest (now 18) basically refused to speak until she was about 3 and a half - she was miles ahead at everything else, but just didn't talk! Anyway, a friend at the time who had two girls of similar ages, said once, after she hadn't seen us for a while 'how is she then - is she still retarded?' I was really hacked off but do appear to have the last laugh as my daughter is off to study law at university next year and both of hers didn't even do A Levels!! - not being a snob by the way just pointing it out

coolma - . What kind of person would say that, still you had the last laugh.

I know, silly cow - makes me laugh when I see her very derr looking eldest on the check out at Sainsbury's - not that there's anything wrong with that - just that her pfb was going to be a brain surgeon!!

DS1 was about 2 at the time and was in a trolly at the supermarket when an old -biddy-- lady noticed his lovely longish blond curly hair and said "oh what lovely hair and isn't she pretty" to which i replied "actually he is a boy" her response "oh what a shame"

I've had loads of awful things directed at me when my then toddler was going through an aggressive phase such as the mother who said 'my ds is such a sweet and gentle child, I don't know how you cope...'

BUT and this is genuinely tactless of me, I said to a new mother of a 3 day old baby (her 4th under 6) 'You look really well, considering' BUT I meant it well although it sounds so bitchy

My husband's grandfather said to me on hearing I was pregnant - "you can't be pregnant - you're not married" - how times change!

On the phone in tears to my MIL - just about to go to my first scan with first baby and I was blubbing I was desperately worried the baby would have disppeared and she said "Oh I know someone that happened to" cue total meltdown from me!

Friend came round for first time and said on seeing my house - "oh your house is a real home - just like mine" - meaning it was a tip - BUT when I went to her house - it seriously WAS a total and utter tip - to the point where it smelt! I was mortified and spent the next two weeks scrubbing in case ppl did think my house was like hers LOL

I get that a lot - 'oh your house looks lived in'. What they mean is there are toys everywhere and it smells a bit of dog - BUT my kitchen and bathroom are spotless, and I know it