WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.068 --> 00:00:02.818 (relaxing music) 00:00:13.688 --> 00:00:16.217 - Hi, I'm Hannah, your friendly neighborhood wine mom 00:00:16.217 --> 00:00:17.402 and if you're anything like me, 00:00:17.402 --> 00:00:19.403 you believe that a glass of wine at eight p.m. 00:00:19.403 --> 00:00:21.650 every once in a while, don't get crazy, 00:00:21.650 --> 00:00:22.726 makes you a better mom. 00:00:22.726 --> 00:00:24.901 So pour yourself a glass and let's talk. 00:00:24.901 --> 00:00:27.232 By the way, did you see we fixed the intro? 00:00:27.232 --> 00:00:28.700 Tonight, we're drinking Rose. 00:00:28.700 --> 00:00:30.779 I bought my Rose a little dress 00:00:30.779 --> 00:00:33.109 because one of us should be fancy, am I right? 00:00:33.109 --> 00:00:34.513 I just talked to my wine. 00:00:34.513 --> 00:00:36.925 So there's something I've been dying to tell you guys 00:00:36.925 --> 00:00:38.847 but first, you need a little bit of back story. 00:00:38.847 --> 00:00:40.283 Both my kids go to daycare 00:00:40.283 --> 00:00:42.035 and they go to a daycare near where I work 00:00:42.035 --> 00:00:43.625 so I drop them off every morning 00:00:43.625 --> 00:00:46.929 and every morning, I see this cute little old lady 00:00:46.929 --> 00:00:49.010 and I smile and I wave hello 00:00:49.010 --> 00:00:52.942 and every morning, she gives me this death glare 00:00:52.942 --> 00:00:53.775 just like. 00:00:55.330 --> 00:00:57.948 Whoa, this cute old lady, what the heck, man? 00:00:57.948 --> 00:01:00.218 And I realized she's not looking at me. 00:01:00.218 --> 00:01:03.547 She's looking at my hair because I have blue hair. 00:01:03.547 --> 00:01:05.454 This is a hot topic on all the comments 00:01:05.454 --> 00:01:06.693 on all of these videos too 00:01:06.693 --> 00:01:09.770 so I figure it's a perfect time to talk about this. 00:01:09.770 --> 00:01:12.372 Let's talk about the worst things about judgy parents. 00:01:12.372 --> 00:01:14.988 So let's start off with what that old woman 00:01:14.988 --> 00:01:17.035 was judging me for, 00:01:17.035 --> 00:01:18.180 colored hair. 00:01:18.180 --> 00:01:20.265 In every video ever that I'm in, 00:01:20.265 --> 00:01:23.209 there's some commenter who says something like 00:01:23.209 --> 00:01:24.500 ooh, she's a mom. 00:01:24.500 --> 00:01:26.473 She shouldn't have blue hair. 00:01:26.473 --> 00:01:27.987 My favorite color is blue 00:01:27.987 --> 00:01:30.136 so when I dyed my hair blue, 00:01:30.136 --> 00:01:33.345 it just unlocked this whole wave of confidence 00:01:33.345 --> 00:01:36.196 and happiness and it benefits my kids so much more 00:01:36.196 --> 00:01:38.159 to have a happy, confident mom. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:43.147 So any moms out there with colored hair, this one's for you. 00:01:43.147 --> 00:01:46.292 I got a wine mustache from that one. 00:01:46.292 --> 00:01:47.724 Next, your age. 00:01:47.724 --> 00:01:49.850 I was pretty young when I had my first 00:01:49.850 --> 00:01:51.353 and I looked very young 00:01:51.353 --> 00:01:54.093 so I would get all these strangers 00:01:54.093 --> 00:01:55.881 at the park with their kids, 00:01:55.881 --> 00:01:59.328 they'd come up to me and kneel down on my son's level 00:01:59.328 --> 00:02:01.388 and be like, where is your dad? 00:02:01.388 --> 00:02:02.254 Where is your dad? 00:02:02.254 --> 00:02:04.012 I don't know. 00:02:04.012 --> 00:02:04.845 What? 00:02:04.845 --> 00:02:07.122 I got shit like, oh, was he planned? 00:02:07.122 --> 00:02:08.577 Oh, we he an accident? 00:02:08.577 --> 00:02:10.472 Is the dad still involved? 00:02:10.472 --> 00:02:11.737 Who's business, 00:02:11.737 --> 00:02:13.082 for people who are a little bit older, 00:02:13.082 --> 00:02:15.459 they get the same thing like oh, aren't you tired? 00:02:15.459 --> 00:02:17.298 Oh, don't you wish you had done it earlier 00:02:17.298 --> 00:02:18.886 cause you wanted a second? 00:02:18.886 --> 00:02:21.118 Since when did this become your business, 00:02:21.118 --> 00:02:23.876 weird random stranger on the sidewalk? 00:02:23.876 --> 00:02:25.549 I feel like people thought 00:02:25.549 --> 00:02:27.465 they could ask me all this intrusive questions 00:02:27.465 --> 00:02:29.351 because I did look young 00:02:29.351 --> 00:02:32.341 and to them, the age that they had children 00:02:32.341 --> 00:02:34.262 was the proper time. 00:02:34.262 --> 00:02:35.983 So now when I see a young mom, 00:02:35.983 --> 00:02:37.616 I will go over and be like, hey, 00:02:37.616 --> 00:02:39.086 you want to come over and have some wine? 00:02:39.086 --> 00:02:40.516 Are you even old enough to drink wine? 00:02:40.516 --> 00:02:41.800 Can I see your ID? 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.306 Just come on over, let's have a glass of wine. 00:02:44.306 --> 00:02:45.639 Next, something. 00:02:46.678 --> 00:02:47.511 Blah. 00:02:47.511 --> 00:02:49.659 Next, meltdowns in public. 00:02:49.659 --> 00:02:50.805 I have two kids. 00:02:50.805 --> 00:02:52.684 They are four and one and a half. 00:02:52.684 --> 00:02:55.333 They're pretty bad ages for meltdowns 00:02:55.333 --> 00:02:57.945 and it usually always happens at the grocery store. 00:02:57.945 --> 00:02:59.320 My kids always meltdown. 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:00.193 What do you expect? 00:03:00.193 --> 00:03:03.176 It's like character shit in every aisle. 00:03:03.176 --> 00:03:05.857 So we go in one aisle and it's Spider-Man cereal. 00:03:05.857 --> 00:03:06.690 You can't have that. 00:03:06.690 --> 00:03:09.953 Go in the next aisle, it's Captain America Fruit Roll-Ups. 00:03:09.953 --> 00:03:11.711 Not buying that for you. 00:03:11.711 --> 00:03:15.181 Next aisle, they're selling Batman sugar bags. 00:03:15.181 --> 00:03:18.533 Just bags of sugar with Batman on the front. 00:03:18.533 --> 00:03:21.265 And so when they do, it's like what do you expect me to do? 00:03:21.265 --> 00:03:23.918 Should I just leave me cart and leave? 00:03:23.918 --> 00:03:25.317 We need groceries. 00:03:25.317 --> 00:03:27.716 So why are these other parents looking at me 00:03:27.716 --> 00:03:30.265 with a disapproving look and muttering, 00:03:30.265 --> 00:03:32.500 oh, she should control her kids. 00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:35.397 Usually, these parents are parents of children 00:03:35.397 --> 00:03:37.481 who are well past the age of mine 00:03:37.481 --> 00:03:39.341 so they don't really understand 00:03:39.341 --> 00:03:41.733 or seem to remember what it was like. 00:03:41.733 --> 00:03:43.040 We're not at a movie theater. 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:45.081 You're not paying to like 00:03:45.081 --> 00:03:47.493 enjoy this experience at the grocery store. 00:03:47.493 --> 00:03:49.647 We're all grocery shopping. 00:03:49.647 --> 00:03:50.849 Chill out a little bit. 00:03:50.849 --> 00:03:53.755 In this situation, parents should help each other out. 00:03:53.755 --> 00:03:56.003 If you see me at the grocery store 00:03:56.003 --> 00:03:58.049 with both of my kids melting, 00:03:58.049 --> 00:03:59.973 just take one. 00:03:59.973 --> 00:04:01.197 Have it. 00:04:01.197 --> 00:04:02.814 It's yours. 00:04:02.814 --> 00:04:04.635 Next, milestones. 00:04:04.635 --> 00:04:05.813 There are certain parents, 00:04:05.813 --> 00:04:07.908 it's usually the tiger mom type 00:04:07.908 --> 00:04:11.290 who judge your child based on their milestones. 00:04:11.290 --> 00:04:14.627 I got all this crap with my oldest son 00:04:14.627 --> 00:04:17.707 because he was two and a half and he wasn't potty trained 00:04:17.707 --> 00:04:19.463 and there were all these other moms who were like, 00:04:19.463 --> 00:04:21.507 oh, he's still in pull-ups? 00:04:21.507 --> 00:04:22.609 Ugh, ugh. 00:04:22.609 --> 00:04:24.815 There are some parents who think that their child 00:04:24.815 --> 00:04:27.466 should be potty trained by the age of six months 00:04:27.466 --> 00:04:28.771 or something crazy like that 00:04:28.771 --> 00:04:31.317 and it's cause they do this weird thing 00:04:31.317 --> 00:04:34.335 where they hold them over the toilet 00:04:34.335 --> 00:04:36.909 when they feel like they're about to crap or some, 00:04:36.909 --> 00:04:38.535 it's, I don't even get it. 00:04:38.535 --> 00:04:42.193 He's four now and he goes to the bathroom just fine. 00:04:42.193 --> 00:04:45.095 It happens for each kid at their own time. 00:04:45.095 --> 00:04:48.563 My kids' bowel movements have nothing to do with you 00:04:48.563 --> 00:04:50.806 unless you would like to come clean them up for me. 00:04:50.806 --> 00:04:51.951 You can judge all you want 00:04:51.951 --> 00:04:54.580 as long as you wipe my kid's butt for me. 00:04:54.580 --> 00:04:56.074 Next, childbirth. 00:04:56.074 --> 00:04:59.381 There is a certain subset of moms who are going to judge you 00:04:59.381 --> 00:05:00.971 for the way you gave birth. 00:05:00.971 --> 00:05:02.664 They'll judge you if you had an epidural. 00:05:02.664 --> 00:05:04.513 They'll judge you if you had a c-section. 00:05:04.513 --> 00:05:06.073 They'll judge you if you had a water birth. 00:05:06.073 --> 00:05:07.662 They'll judge you if you did it at home. 00:05:07.662 --> 00:05:09.426 They'll judge you if you did it in the hospital. 00:05:09.426 --> 00:05:11.885 They'll judge every single part about your birth 00:05:11.885 --> 00:05:15.191 that's not the same as the way that they gave birth 00:05:15.191 --> 00:05:16.902 which doesn't make any sense to me 00:05:16.902 --> 00:05:18.012 because the kid's already out. 00:05:18.012 --> 00:05:19.911 There's nothing we could do about it. 00:05:19.911 --> 00:05:21.246 I can't shove it back in 00:05:21.246 --> 00:05:23.572 and do it the way that you thought I should have. 00:05:23.572 --> 00:05:26.272 So for both of my boys, they were very short labors. 00:05:26.272 --> 00:05:28.189 It was extremely painful 00:05:28.189 --> 00:05:30.379 and I walked right into the hospital being like, 00:05:30.379 --> 00:05:31.932 drugs, drugs, drugs. 00:05:31.932 --> 00:05:33.089 I got the epidural. 00:05:33.089 --> 00:05:34.272 I did it in the hospital. 00:05:34.272 --> 00:05:35.663 That's where I was comfortable 00:05:35.663 --> 00:05:37.583 and there's always that one mom 00:05:37.583 --> 00:05:39.769 who you tell them your birth experience and they're like, 00:05:39.769 --> 00:05:43.186 oh, well, I had mine at home with no meds 00:05:44.483 --> 00:05:46.189 like they're better than you. 00:05:46.189 --> 00:05:47.939 We both got it out. 00:05:47.939 --> 00:05:49.411 I don't care how yours came out. 00:05:49.411 --> 00:05:50.777 I don't care where you were. 00:05:50.777 --> 00:05:52.390 Why do you care where mine was? 00:05:52.390 --> 00:05:54.059 If I see a baby, I'm not like, 00:05:54.059 --> 00:05:56.755 hmm, I wonder how it came out of its mom's vagina? 00:05:56.755 --> 00:06:01.093 I don't give a flying hoot about the birth plan. 00:06:01.093 --> 00:06:03.050 Did I just say a flying hoot? 00:06:03.050 --> 00:06:05.606 But the worst part about judgy parents 00:06:05.606 --> 00:06:07.513 is that we're all judgy parents. 00:06:07.513 --> 00:06:09.959 I'm judging judgy parents right now. 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.628 Y'all are gonna judge me in the comments. 00:06:12.628 --> 00:06:15.384 You are gonna judge each other in the comments 00:06:15.384 --> 00:06:17.376 so let's just all stop. 00:06:17.376 --> 00:06:21.625 We're all on this crap rocket ride of parenthood. 00:06:21.625 --> 00:06:23.457 Let's be nice to each other. 00:06:23.457 --> 00:06:25.790 If you see something that you want to judge, 00:06:25.790 --> 00:06:27.387 save it for something interesting 00:06:27.387 --> 00:06:29.105 to tell your significant other. 00:06:29.105 --> 00:06:30.291 Hey, guess what I saw? 00:06:30.291 --> 00:06:32.734 Some dumby talking about judgy parents. 00:06:32.734 --> 00:06:33.763 She was so dumb. 00:06:33.763 --> 00:06:35.361 She had stupid hair. 00:06:35.361 --> 00:06:36.982 Blah blah blah blah. 00:06:36.982 --> 00:06:40.212 It's perfectly acceptable to be judgy 00:06:40.212 --> 00:06:42.614 but it's not okay to be mean. 00:06:42.614 --> 00:06:43.964 So that's all I got for today. 00:06:43.964 --> 00:06:46.600 I'm Hannah, your friendly neighborhood wine mom. 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.321 It should be interesting to see the comments on this video. 00:06:49.321 --> 00:06:50.682 Let's try to keep it nice 00:06:50.682 --> 00:06:53.126 cause I read them, I appreciate them and as always, 00:06:53.126 --> 00:06:55.252 if there's anything you want me to talk about, 00:06:55.252 --> 00:06:56.721 leave it in the comments 00:06:56.721 --> 00:06:58.541 and if you have something mean to say, 00:06:58.541 --> 00:07:00.892 take that to Twitter because I don't have a Twitter 00:07:00.892 --> 00:07:02.406 and I don't know how to use it. 00:07:02.406 --> 00:07:03.823 So til next time. 00:07:04.666 --> 00:07:07.416 (relaxing music) 00:07:11.674 --> 00:07:12.674 Oh, big sip.