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Me: "If you arent here to eat my ass get the fuck off my porch Karen"
Questionable or hyper senstive?
Tell me if I'm over thinking this.
I'm fostering a previously abused dog with old injuries. She's missing a quarter of her face but is otherwise is a happy dog. I was walking her and the neighbor kid asks what happened, I said something like "well some people are bad and are mean to animals". The kid looks like he's 7. His mom moves him away and says "That wasn't necessary". I thought maybe she misheard me and forgot about it. Then later she came to my door and is upset that I told her son people hurt animals are bad people. Yeah I was pretty shocked by her reaction to what should be common sense, people who hurt animals ARE bad people. Hello? Earth to neighbor? I said yes, I stand by that and she pops off about how I don't get to tell someone else's kid what's right and wrong before I tell her to leave and she stomps off.
Now I'm trying to figure out of this woman is ok with animal abuse or maybe (hopfully) she's just sensitive. I think they have pets and honestly I'm worried about them. Like what a crazy thing to get pissed about.
She looks like a healthy 45 year old woman but she could be on something or have altered mantal status. Who knows.
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Ii wouldn't say she's either of those options. She's just a mom with a child who wasn't ready to hear that, and she now has to deal with the consequences of what you said.I personally don't think there's anything wrong with what you said, but I think without knowing them too well I probably would have said something more along the lines of, "this doggy got hurt before I got him, so now I'm looking after him".
Br
100% agree
Be
Ok well you are entitled to your opinion. Lulupie and I were simply offering another point of view because she asked for opinions on the matter. And I could see where the lady was coming from 🤷🏼♀️
Be
I think we seem to be the only ones in agreement here 😂
Honestly, I was told by a parent to not teach her child a new word. Care to wager a guess at what word that was? Vagina. Yep. Her child is older than mine and did not know her own anatomy until my daughter fell on her shoe and came and told me it hurt her vagina.🤦♀️ It wasn't as direct as what this lady did, it was more of an eyeroll and a great a new word, which floored me, honestly. Parents are weird. Some of them make up cute little lies instead of telling their kids the truth. It is possible she just thought that was too graphic for her little one. I do find it suspicious that she actually went to your house though, normal peoe would discuss it with their child and drop it, so I do find her behaviour quite odd.
C
I mean, the vagina is actually inside you. Guessing she probably hurt her vulva
Qu
Agreed. That's why I didn't with my daughter. I always thought it was weird when I learned what it was really called.
Mi
I don’t like when people give genitalia odd nicknames it’s confusing. But that’s my personal opinion.
She should teach her kid to not be nosey if she isn’t ready to ALSO teach her kid about things he will learn asking questions 😑
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So why are you trying to argue
El
Yeah that was clear 😂
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If she’s so lazy that she can’t teach anything to her kid she needs to let her kid not ask questions since she clearly isn’t ready to be a parent?
Sounds more like a helicopter parent. "I dont want me child to know that there is bad in the world". Unfortunately, people can be bad and its unavoidable. Sheltering kids from it doesn't help anything.
Ka
That seems fair. I just feel like eventually theyre gonna know that the world isnt what they thought it was so maybe easing into the truth that there's bad in the world could help them when they run into it. But im no expert, you obviously know how to raise your own kids to keep on doing what you're doing!
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Actually I grew up in a really violent time in my country. Violence was normalized. I am still affected by it to this day. I will absolutely shield my son from bad things, violent things and abuse as much as I can. It stole my innocence and I want him to live a life for as long as he can without fear.
I’m not really understanding your poll options but let’s just say this lady is whack. The fact that she went home, stewed on it... then went to your house and gave you a blast of shit for showing her kid a piece of the real world is beyond me. I mean if you intentionally made her kid cry or something that would be a different story.
We foster for our local SPCA.. My son is 3 and has huge compassion for animals and knows the dogs and puppies we get are mostly neglected or abused.. he knows the are bad people who do bad things to animals... he has a huge soft spot for others.. I don't think what you told a 7 year old was wrong at all... he's going to face a hard future if he's so freaking sheltered...
I think she’s got some extra stress on her plate and she’s taking it out on you. I can imagine she could have in laws who don’t respect her as a parent so when a random stranger comes by and she feels disrespected as a parent she feels like she needs to overreact to make up for all the other times she has felt disrespected.I don’t think you did anything wrong. I know it’s hard, but I wouldn’t take it personally.
Qu
Agree, it's not like OP was graphic and went into great detail over exactly what happened to the poor dog. I mean, this would be a whole different debate if they went into detail because that would cross a line. But being honest with a child? Nah, that's fine. Kids are not as fragile and dumb as people treat them. Sounds like the kid was fine.🙄
Sa
Lol sorry to keep commenting- but I wouldn’t be concerned that the neighbor is abusing animals. I think she just overreacted.
Sa
And I’m not sure why people are saying you shouldn’t have said what you said to the kid? I think that’s perfectly appropriate. My parents have rescue dogs and I have explained the same thing in almost the same way to kids, too.
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