Watching a Perfect Parent Brigade hit the comments section never ceases to amaze me. Sometimes, articles that appear in my Facebook news feed might not even be relevant to me, but I have to have a read because I know, I just KNOW, that the comment sections will be a train wreck, no matter how innocuous the subject might be.
Last week, I saw an article about a new invention. It’s called the Swipe and Feed– a plastic gadget that snaps on to a baby bottle and holds your smartphone. Essentially, you can feed your baby and scroll with ease. Probably not so useful for the breast feeders- unless you’re willing and able to squish your boob into a plastic circle, but, I digress.
The dad that designed it said he made it to help him get a little work done during feeding times. I read the article about it and thought “Huh, that’s clever!” A friend of mine, who bottle fed both her kids, was lamenting the fact that these weren’t around when her kids were little. And then I read the comments. Apparently, the Perfect Parents saw this little invention in a completely different light. They’d know, being Perfect Parents, how awful it really is. Some of them said they didn’t actually have any children and those are the ones I trust the most, because I know that’s when I was a Perfect Parent, myself.