How to Gracefully Deal with Unsolicited Parenting Advice
At some point in time, if you are a parent, someone will want to tell you what you should be doing better. Since, more often then not, you have no use for their opinions, it might be helpful to know what to say when this happens. You don’t want to be rude of course, but you also don’t want to encourage the conversation. “I’ll have to look into that”, is one easy phrase. You may have a similar phrase that works well for you.
Key Takeaways:
- When the author had her son, it was as if a secret newsletter had been put out to everyone that she didn’t have a clue what to do.
- The advice that the author received was based on how to raise her child which included how to feed and how to swaddle or not swaddle him.
- There are moments when people want to give unsolicited parenting advice and they could start with: “It’s not my business but…”
“I don’t want to say that I have found the solution to dealing with unsolicited parenting advice, however, I have found a way to make it all a little bit more tolerable, and, dare I say, maybe even fun!”
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