Hahaha, that's hilarious on their part. I don't know why strangers feel the need to get themselves so involved sometimes 🤦♀️ I remember my son crying in his pram in the supermarket one time, I knew he was overtired and due a nap, but some guy walking past thought it'd be helpful to jingle his keys in his face. It was a struggle not to tell him where to stick his keys 🤐😬😂
My girl has recently started to pull the bottom lip if anyone leans over to look at her in the pram 😂
Imagine letting it ruin your day because a random child didn't smile at you at the grocery store. I tell people they have to earn it 😂 My son is such a flirt with most younger women, but he seems to be an ageist and doesn't care for older folks. This definitely makes it tough in the retirement community where we live in Florida. They love to gush over him especially when they are missing their grandkids, but he doesn't always respond. It is what it is, I wouldn't stress it.
Honestly, imagine your life being so small that a baby staring at you upsets you and you take offence 🤦🏼♀️ Just ignore them, miserable buggers. Some people are so entitled and strange, like a baby owes you any thing or is there to entertain you as an adult.
My daughter has always been a very happy baby but up until the past two or three months she was almost impossible to make smile or laugh. She was so serious all the time I called her the serious goose. One time we were in Walmart with my parents and my dad was holder her, this woman probably in her late 60s to early 70s tried talking to her and stuff and my daughter basically had no reaction and I could tell she was offended so I just told her my daughter is a serious baby and I moved on. I feel strongly that it's not my job to stop them from getting upset. I honestly think people are really weird about babies like I wouldn't approach a random adult trying to grocery and ask how old they are or what their gender is so why do we do it for babies. I amswer their questions but I don't worry how they feel about her personality. If people don't like it that's their problem not mine.
People come up to my two year old all the time and he either cringes back and says ‘no’ or says ‘no thank you’ he does not like interacting with strangers 😅 sometimes they just laugh like okay then but we had one lady say ‘how rude’ and I was like ‘lady he’s 2 and he doesn’t know you what are you expecting?’ My partner hates it, like he physically stands between our sons and strangers when they reach out to touch them or start talking to them in a way my partner doesn’t like, I genuinely think my partner would throw hands if a stranger tried to actually get too near our children 😂
😂😂 my daughter used to screammmm if anyone even looked at her, they would be mortified but I’d find it hilarious 😂
They sound like people who don’t deserve smiles tbh. Imagine getting offended at a baby 😂
These stories! 😂😭 My daughter used to dislike all but maybe 5 or 6 people (me, her dad, her two grandmother's, my dad and my sister.) Everyone else she would hit if they get too close or just start screaming, bawling her eyes out.
my neighbours (who I'm not close with personally) would take my daughters dummy out her mouth without permission and try and get her to smile. sometimes she would smile and other times she'd look upset because they took it off her. I found it very rude that they'd do that even if she would smile. just because she's a baby doesn't mean it's ok. it's the same as me going up to an adult and taking their drink off them and tell them to smile or they won't get it back. it's weird and very rude.
@Riley I think I’d become violent if someone did that to my baby 😭 people are acc insane
@Aggs I was trying not to, especially since I never got on with them growing up. just because I have a kid now means I have to stop and chat to them apparently 🙄
My toddler has some delays around gestures and doesn't wave often, and was late on high fives. I learnt really fast people take it very personally when a child doesn't respond how they want. So insane. They wouldn't demand a strange adult interact with them for no reason but they'll demand a child does! Had so many awkward conversations that she doesn't do those things after people get huffy.