Since [1] Amy (Pray for Amy. She is STILL pregnant.) sent even more young mothers over here I thought it would be FUN to get really honest. I thought maybe the older moms could tell the things that bug them when they see mothers with young children. I thought this would be a lot of fun and it would also be a way to plumb the ultimate depths of memory loss and truth telling. If there is one thing I have learned from blogging it’s that negativity sells

To get things rolling, I will list ten things I hate to see young mothers doing:

1. I hate it when I am in a public bathroom and a mother is in the stall with her young child and the child is asking the mother to look at the product he has produced. This mother is not in control of her child and she has no commonsense.

2. I hate to see a mother cutting off the crust of the bread for a child, almost always a son. If you are a mother who did this for a daughter I would like to know because your daughter may be president someday.

3. I hate to see flat-headed babies. Hold the baby sometimes.

4. I hate to see women look at their watches when their baby cries.

5. I hate it when young moms get embarrassed when their children misbehave around me. children misbehave. See # 9.

6. I hate to see mothers worry about the weather. If a child is over 6 he will know when he needs to bundle up.

7. I hate to see mothers worry about dirt. Studies show that babies who eat dirt are healthier; they pick up more immunities along the way.

8. I hate talking to women who think that my children are some sort of new breed and that they could never get their children to obey. This usually doesn’t happen among Calvinists but rather shop clerks.

9. I hate to see moms make excuses for disobedience. Whiny, tired, hungry children are one thing, disobedient children are quite another. Even whiny, tired, hungry children must obey. If they disobey discipline them. The sooner the better. Then work on not letting them get so tired and hungry in the future which I realize can’t always be helped.

10. Ok, now for the sake of honesty and transparency and to make up for being so hard on y’all, I will blushingly tell you that I hate it when young mothers that I see frequently never so much as ask me a single thing about parenting. I haunted the older women I knew as a young mom. A girl at church told me that she was afraid I would think she was a stalker but to tell the truth it makes me feel good to think I can help and comfort other mothers. Stalk away.

As you can see I prize commonsense and once again I will repeat the best parents make the worst mistakes. Don’t feel too bad if you have been cutting the crust off the bread just STOP IT.

Your turn old gals.

Young moms you can complain about older women in the comments if you must but we are all so old and stubborn we probably won’t hear a word you say.