While I wouldn't go so far as to hang this on my child, I do wish there was a way to let strangers know that it's ok to look but not touch.
First of all, it's just weird. I thought it was weird when people talked to me at length when I was pregnant, but apparently that doesn't stop once you have baby. A woman working at a store I shopped in even called him chubby the other day. She had no room to talk. Also, MacBaby isn't chubby, not that there's anything wrong with that.
I don't want to talk to strangers and I certainly don't want to tell them intimate details about the inner workings of my body or my family. Why do you care what I would have named a girl if I had one?
Secondly -- germs. This is a particularly bad time for germ-a-phobes like myself. I desperately do not want my child to get swine flu. I don't know where your hands have been and if they've ever seen the likes of soap, so don't touch my kid.
Here's how neurotic I am: there's a play group tonight at our community early childhood center. I will take the boy, but I don't want him to touch any of the toys.
Am I crazy or do I am I taking a normal amount of precautions? Before you judge, let me also add that I work down the hall from a doctor's office and I've taken more sick days in the past two years than in my 10 years worth of previous jobs combined. This includes a three week suffering from mono.
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I try and think most people don't mean any harm... especially the little blue heads at the grocery/post office/mcdonalds/anywhere that are just flat out lonely because their kids/grandkids/everyone forgot who they were, missed the days when they were babies, or just plain said screw them we dont care about those old derelict invalids anymore.. they're so old and decrepit they're worthless in society and dont deserve any respect... truth of the matter is germs are EVERYWHERE... the same door knob that so and so touched and you touched and so on and so forth.. everything contains germs..and to keep sheltering your kids from everything is NOT putting them at any advantages.. certain things aren't rocket science.. you dont take a newborn here or there, and thats not because they'll get sick.. it's because they'll get really crabby from over stimulation. My oldest son and younger kids went through a lot of sickness, flues, and a whole bunch of stuff when they were young. But you know what.. now that they are older, they've been exposed to everything when they were younger, and they NEVER get sick, because they've have been exposed to everything already.. now that they're older I dont have to get them from daycare/school because they're sick.. EVER... The early exposure helped their immune system develop antibodies so they wont get that infection again, thus in the long run helping out you and your child. Dont get me wrong I wouldn't let my baby go play in a sewer, but that little old lady down the street wont hurt your baby anymore than they will when they're crawling, eating, putting everything in their mouths, and being a typical baby. Live a Little :)
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