Other Mothers

I have a son who is almost yen months and already I have learned I really do not enjoy talking to other women with children.  Let me explain.  I know I do not know everything about parenthood and I will readily admit any and all of my flaws, which are many, I assure you, but there are those women out there who seem so pretentious.  For example the other day I was at a baby shower and a lady commented on how well behaved my son was.  I thanked her for her compliment and assured her it had nothing to do with me, but was rather due to his temperament and went on to explain that although he is more temperamental while teething he was is no way extremely difficult because I had not had to stay up all night rocking a screaming child like many friend have had to do.  Then some woman listening in on our conversation made the snide comment, “oh just wait.”  Now I will admit I am probably making more of this this is was intended or needs to be, but that simple phase indicates 1.  I do not know what to expect from my child 2. My child will be this horrible 3. This implied that this woman knew more than I did.  I happened to know that this woman also only had one child and while her child was a little older the kid was of a different gender and temperament.  This one incident alone is not the issue; I seem to come across this fairly regularly that if there are so many “expert moms” out there then how come a majority of our youth are still learning more from their teachers rather than from their parent and how come the family is still becoming more and more of a rarity.  I am not saying I am blameless either…I am sure I have done something similar, but now that I am so annoyed with it, I have decided to put my foot down.  I will call women out when they make such comments and refrain from speaking in a similar tone.  Advice is fine, but the snide belittling is uncalled for wholly unnecessary!