Krechelle Carter doesn't want your advice.
As a mum-of-six, she has more than enough experience with her children to feel that she knows what's best for them.
So when a stranger made a passing comment about her one-year-old recently in a park, she realised how sick she was of assumptions by those who didn't know her.
"Dear “Stranger from the park”" she wrote. "F**k off"
She shared how she was at the park with four of her children, when a woman walking by remarked on her one-year-old:
“Oh isn’t she walking yet; that’s odd, and she’s getting dirt inside her mouth”
Carter, however, was having none of it:
"Now at this point I’m almost positive this women isn’t aware that I'd had a total of 45 minutes sleep in a week. I'd just drank my second cold coffee in 14 minutes and I had managed to get four children out of the house and to the playground clothed.
Because I’m fairly certain if she had of known all of that information she would have just handed me my gold medal and sash and got the f**k on with her day."
But instead of retorting the stranger's comment, Carter "stared right back at her face and said nothing."
A stranger commenting on her children is not an uncommon occurrence for Carter, so she decided to finally have her say on the matter.
"I’m sick of feeling like I’m not a magical, mammary, mothering, unicorn. I just wanted to get this off my chest."
She says that a stranger has no right to comment on children they don't know:
"Look I get it, your Uncle’s, Sister’s, Aunt’s, Daughter has two perfect children, who sleep through the night and eat only what they’re told. They are reading novels at five months old while using the potty and are on the wait list for Harvard.
I mean this child is completely f****g mythical, mind you."
Carter speaking on behalf mum's who "certainly cannot cope with the questions when we’re so sleep deprived we’re not even sure who drove the car to where we were":
"NO they are not too cold. NO they are not to hot. Yes they are dry. Yes they are full...
No they don’t have too many naps. YES they are getting enough naps . Yes we’ve taken them to a doctor.
No it can’t be fixed. And we can’t give them back."
In response to all these invasive questions, Carter has one response: “She’ll be alright mate”
Simple, yet effective. We love it.
