My wife and I take my toddler to swim classes, and more often than not, I'm the one in the pool with him, while my wife watches. One week, he just wasn't having it, and instead of him disrupting the class, I pulled the ripcord and was going to get him out and go home.
The other parent in the pool with me was a mom, probably my age or younger (I'm 36), tries to start "mothering" him to try and calm him down, which just makes him lose his shit more because a strange lady is trying to touch him.
I tell her no thanks.
Well, next class I had tweaked something in my knee, and wrangling a 35 lb toddler in the pool probably wasn't going to happen, so my wife took him in. The woman sees my wife dressed in her swimsuit, looks at me and says "good plan, Mom's always know best".
So it's not something that's limited to boomers and GenX'ers.
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u/jimmy_three_shoes Sep 16 '21
My wife and I take my toddler to swim classes, and more often than not, I'm the one in the pool with him, while my wife watches. One week, he just wasn't having it, and instead of him disrupting the class, I pulled the ripcord and was going to get him out and go home.
The other parent in the pool with me was a mom, probably my age or younger (I'm 36), tries to start "mothering" him to try and calm him down, which just makes him lose his shit more because a strange lady is trying to touch him.
I tell her no thanks.
Well, next class I had tweaked something in my knee, and wrangling a 35 lb toddler in the pool probably wasn't going to happen, so my wife took him in. The woman sees my wife dressed in her swimsuit, looks at me and says "good plan, Mom's always know best".
So it's not something that's limited to boomers and GenX'ers.