Mom Rants: What’s Eating You?

Someone just made a snide remark about your child’s use of the “Disney Junior” app, your child embarrasses you with a very detailed account of the sickness that is being passed around your house to the cashier at Publix, a co-worker rubs your pregnant belly without permission for the 100th time…

There is a chance one or all of these things will happen to you in a day. They’re annoying, agitating, cringe-worthy and even downright rude but chances are you just smile, nod, shrug your shoulders and move on because it’s just not worth the time and energy to say anything. Well, it’s time to shrug off your last annoyance ever with my new “Mom Rants” blog post. Once a month I’ll invite you to purge your most agitating, embarrassing, rant-worthy thought of the month right here on Jacksonville Moms Blog. You’ll have just a few sentences to give readers an account of whatever annoying thing happened to you and release it into the blogsphere forever.

Are you up for the challenge? To give you an idea of what we’re looking for here are a few of my favorite rants from friends and fellow JMB contributors:

Mom Rant on Life With a Three-Year-Old

Asking a non-pregnant woman her due date is probably one of the best-known accidental insults. Almost as bad is when an acquaintance exclaims in public “Oh my God- what happened?! Are you okay?! How did you get TWO black eyes?!” This happened to me and I then had to explain that I was not in some horrific car accident. They were the natural bags under my eyes from lack of sleep. And the icing on the cake, it wasn’t even a particular bad all- nighter or dealing with a newborn. It was just a fairly normal day/night with a 3-year-old intruder at 3 a.m. – Signed, Could Use a Nap

…On the Daylight Savings Madness

What time is it? Time for us to come together as parents and eradicate the disease known as Daylight Savings Time. This biannual affliction not only affects the health and well-being of our children, but tests the limits on just how nice mommy can be at 5:30 am. So come Spring lets just refuse to “Spring Forward” and instead of wasting all of that time changing clocks, waking small children, and brewing extra pots of coffee, we can instead continue to enjoy our circadian rhythm the way it was meant to be: unadjusted. – Signed, What Time Is It?

…On Dressing Your Multiples the Same

Hey Moms of Multiples, I get it, it’s hard having all of those same-aged children, especially when total strangers keep stopping you to talk about them. So here’s a thought: STOP DRESSING THEM THE SAME! Sure it’s easier to buy three of the same outfit then to find three different, but that doesn’t mean they need to all wear it on the same day, especially if you are annoyed at people ogling your offspring. So while you may have to find something else to do with all your free time now that you’re not complaining on Facebook every day about how rude strangers are, it’ll be for the best for all of us. – Signed, Seeing Double

…On Your Child’s Perfect Sleeping Habits

If you are one of the lucky ones to have a good sleeping child then great…I am SO SO happy for you. But we are not all blessed in that department so please don’t act so horrified that my 2-year-old does not nap anymore or I say I’m tired because my kids got up at 6….heck that was practically sleeping in! Having a good sleeper is not some sign of model parenting or proof you know how to handle kids better….it just means you got LUCKY. It’s not like I WANT my child to be up before the sun. – Signed, Not-So-Lucky Mama

…On Kidless Friends

Is it wrong of me to secretly wish all my friends without kids would hurry up & have kids of their own? Not because I want them to experience all the joy & happiness that come with being a parent…that would be the nice way to think. Because I want them to stop looking at me like THAT. The looks I now get when I can’t go to the beach at 12:30 because my kid takes a nap…I need to go at 10:30. Or when yes we’d love to bring the kids & cookout at your house but no….starting the event at 8pm isn’t going to work. And yes we did spend our “Sunday Funday” going to Home Depot and BB&Beyond…we might even throw in a little visit to a playground too. We are just crazy like that. – Signed, Have Kids Already

Have a Mom Rant you want to get off your chest? Email me at [email protected] and your rant could be featured on next month’s list.