Does it bother you when people without children, or children younger than yours, say babies, give you parenting advice?

Yeah dont give me any parenting advice if you havent been there before, if you have no kids and if I didnt ask you lol

If they're being friendly/nice about it, it doesn't annoy me. If they're being 'know it all' about it, then it does.

I've had people give me shit advice before when they've been in the same situation or already gone through it, I've had people give me really good advice before when they haven't been 🤷🏻‍♀️

No, I tend to find parents are biased by what worked for their own child and people without kids are commenting from a broader perspective which can sometimes be more helpful.

I don’t like unsolicited parenting advice anyways unless it comes from a professional. Like if I’ve not asked you just keep it to yourself 😂

Not really, I’ll take advice from anyone as long as it’s meant with good intent. I don’t take things like this to heart.

Not exactly. I give parenting advice to people with older kids or probably did a few when I didn’t have kids. I’m the oldest or 5 kids so i’ve already gone through or seen a lot of parenting stuff from my family that I know some ways to handle things. So I’ll share it if it seems necessary. So if someone gives me information. Then I’ll take that and think about it and maybe use it. If I know that they are an older siblings of multiple them it’ll make more sense. But if it’s some sort of Karen who had no kids and who’s like an older siblings or hasn’t had to raise anyone in a very very very long time then I might just take that advice and shove it in a trash can.

Outside perspectives are often helpful in my experience. I just imagine what they mean to say is "easier said than done", but that doesn't mean their advice is invalid

I’ve given parenting advice to a friend with older kids plenty of times, and now that my child is the same age they were at the time, I still stand by that advice and it’s worked for me when I’ve been in the same situations. Sometimes I find myself in a situation I’ve given advice for, and try to think back to what I told my friend and then implement my own advice and it works🤷🏼‍♀️
You don’t have to have experienced something to have knowledge or insight on it, and often those who have experienced it give bad advice anyways.
That same friend with older kids gave me plenty of advice and 90% of it was bad

Advice is advice so long as it's not rude. You can take it or not or just ignore it.

It depends how they give it tbh.
I do get bothered when they make judgements and dumb af comments about scenarios they have not lived through though. #stillsalty

It doesn’t bother me. However it’s unlikely I would ever ask someone for parenting advice in the first place and it’s even more unlikely I’d be asking advice of someone who hasn’t been through the stages I have

I mean, as a teacher I would guess that some things I’ve said to parents may fall under the general umbrella of “parenting advice,” and my own kids are still younger than the kids I teach. Depends on context, expertise in the area, motivation behind giving the advice.

Unsolicited advice are never ok to me... Yet if I'm looking for an advice I might ask to someone who I think is qualified and with no children. I personally wouldn't ask for advice from lots of moms I know because we have totally different parenting styles and I don't value their opinions. Yet I value opinions of other moms I know and also other friends who have no kids yet

Eh, it depends. I know people that just cant not give ‘advice’ about every single thing. It’s exhausting. But once in a while? Yeah I don’t mind.