I am so, unbelievably sick and tired of unsolicited parenting advice. Namely from a couple of other mum "friends" and my MIL (standard) who like to comment on every aspect of my parenting. My ds is my entire world. A healthy, happy, clever and polite little 3yo. Everything i do I try to do in his best interests. We co-sleep (shock, horror!) Which I love, in my opinion its completely natural, we all sleep perfectly and there's plenty of room in our king-size bed. You can imagine the comments i get about that. Then the advice "just leave him to cry he will self soothe" you couldn't pay me to break his heart like that. In response to the fact that he doesn't climb into his car seat himself, MIL suggests "get in the car and pretend to drive away" WTF and in response to him not wanting to sit on the big toilet "don't give him the potty, let him mess himself he will soon learn" WTAF. I LITERALLY AM SEETHING WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. This isn't all one person either, these are multiple pieces of advice from different people and I am just sick to death of the cruel comments and advice to basically scare and be nasty to my son. I'm so done, so ready to cut people from my life (unfortunately I cant do that with MIL) Another great one is blaming me for certain behaviours: "He does because you __" You don't know me, you aren't there you don't have a clue what I do and don't do, you know nothing about me or my son. I'm an introvert and I feel people say what they want to me knowing I won't retaliate. I feel that it's been like this since I fell pregnant, everything I do is judged and criticised when all I do is love my son and id do anything for him. What happened to women supporting each other and being there for each other. What happened to kindness and respect?
TLDR: Anyone else sick of unsolicited parenting advice? (I.e advice you didn't ask for) and generally shitty comments from others.