I'm better than you attitude from

I guess I am getting hormonal but sometimes my beloved family gets to me.  I have a cousin that had a baby about a year ago and she doesn’t want her child around my children because they “go to daycare and she does not want them getting her child sick.”  Okay, if that is the way she wants it then that is the way she can have it so I don’t go to her house.   Well, she calls and says she has something for my child who is a 3 months older than her child asked if I could drop by and pick it up.  I said I could but I had my 5 yo with me, my  little one was with her granny.  She said that’s okay just come get it so I go over there and we visit for a while.  My 5 yo child was interested in looking at her baby cousin says “don’t touch her, don’t go around her because you go to daycare.”  I told her well, she has had a bath.  (This was when her baby was about 4 months old.)  She said I don’t want your kids getting mine sick.    Well her child is now 1 year old and it has had ear infections, stomach bug, just about everything that goes around and she was telling me about it, I told her well my little one was sick last week but she got over it already.  She says “well your kids are going to get sick, they go to daycare. I have to protect my child."   She says my 5 yo is too rough with my 16 mo.  She does get rough but if you call her down she stops and she has mellowed since dd was first born.  She says my 5 yo was too wild.  Actually she is not.  I have had her in daycare and I this year she started pre-K and I have yet to have anyone say that she was a discipline problem.  I asked the daycare provider even and she said she doesn’t have any problems with her, just the typical 5 yo stuff. 

Another thing, as worried as she is about her baby getting sick….the other day I go over to her house because she said she had sold my piano (with permission, her mother was buying her a dining table and she needed more room)  and the buyers had left the check with her.  She had clothes stacked up on all her furniture, dried food on the baby’s highchair, papers scattered everywhere, diapers falling out of the trash can, dried food on the baby’s walker and bouncy seat.   

I think those daycare comments bit her in the butt though.  One day, after I dropped my little one off, the director of the daycare asked me if I had seen cousin’s baby lately.  I told her no that I don’t go around her because she said my kids are germy and go to daycare.  The director stepped back and said “oh bull”   I swear did not know that later that day my cousin was going to apply for a job there so her kid could stay for free but the daycare director turned her down.   My cousin told that she went over there to look for a job.  I did not tell her about the conversation I had with the director earlier that day. 

I usually like my cousin but it just seems that since she had this baby she seems to think her stuff doesn’t stink. 

• I'm better than you attitude from - obnoxious relatives.
  • Yeah, my DH is like that, granted I don't go looking - sm - Laura E.
  • My opinion on germs with - Four healthy kids
    • My daughter was a very social butterfly - and still had allergies and eczema.
    • I so agree...mother of 3 healthy kids - PAMT~MDM

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Big deal, so you could do it. Kids need more than beans and potatos on the plate! Calm down sweetie, that's what assistance is for; don't begrudge others who have had to resort to it. It takes a lot more courage to ask for help than to try to scrape by on your own.