So, dear mothers. No more cuddling. We are always for mom motivation and like to smear honey around every stretch mark. But today self-criticism is the order of the day. Because there is a whim that we mothers all have: know-it-all. And we prefer to live it out with our children's fathers. Although these are the people with whom we should show most solidarity – after all, raising children is teamwork.
We have collected sentences in the editorial office that we regularly throw at the fathers' heads, even though we actually know how stupid they are.
Why is it so difficult for us to resist smart shitting? No idea. Probably stems from the time when the woman in the cave was constantly worried that the man would accidentally crush the baby with his club.
So here are 9 typical sentences – do they seem familiar to you?
1. "Let me do it."
One of the worst sentences. Because we rarely say him to relieve the man. It's because we can't stand that he does something different than we do. Or not so good. Or just a little bit slower. But how should he get routine in cutting baby toenails or braiding braids when mom sits with a stern look on his neck and intervenes immediately if his actions do not meet her expectations? He's also grown up – not twelve.
So the next time the sentence comes to your mind, change it in your mind, into: "Let it go, it'll do it."
2. "He doesn't understand it that way."
The son asks where the sand castle that was on the beach yesterday was – and the man gives a long lecture about the tides, the earth's rotation, tidal range and phases of the moon. Yes, even if the four-year-old gazes blankly into the waves – refrain from the sentence. Who knows what gets stuck, also with you.
3. "Isn't it getting too cold?"
This is not about bathing water, but about clothes. A terrain that many mothers rule as if they were Anna Wintour. When the man puts the child on, we don't just look at the styling. It is always too little for us. The hat is missing, the jacket is too thin, the shoes are not waterproof. As if father and child were going on a trip to Lapland – and not just going over to Edeka for a moment. Relax, the child won't freeze to death.
4. "Leave her."
No, the sentence does not work well if the father wants to keep the children from building an artificial reservoir in the living room with a lot of argumentation. Even if we think his intervention is totally exaggerated – to stab him in the back in front of the children is stupid. Better remember the sentence and discuss it later. (Of course, the reverse also applies.)
5. "Don't you think they have to go to bed now?"
Says the mother when she comes home after a dinner with her friends and the children are still jumping around the apartment half-naked. An absolutely unnecessary sentence. Because if daddy meant that, they would be there in bed.
6. "She has never liked that before."
Might be. But maybe Papas Königsberger Klopse taste very different and much better than ours? In addition, fathers can still experience this terrible feeling that one has when the food that has been cooked for hours is spurned. And without our comments.
7. "Wouldn't you rather play / tinker / go out?"
It may not apply to everyone, but men tend to have a different way of spending time with their children. You need less program. You'd rather just be there. Lying around on the sofa with the children (even when the sun is shining outside), leafing through comics (like everyone for themselves), staring at holes in the wall, turning on the television, and are completely satisfied in all their pedagogical senselessness. The children, too, by the way.
8. "Be careful!"
Mummy mom, he is clear. Maybe not as careful as you. But it is also his child. So he'll take care of it.
9. "First give birth to a child!"
But does not work! We really did a lot in the delivery room – but that doesn't make us a more competent parent.