https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:35:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112425 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:32:54 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2112425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can see my mom thinking "nipple confusion" isn't a real thing. I plan to get the Comotomo bottles that are breast like and recommended for babies that are also breastfed. My mom nursed and used Playtex bottles with the disposable liners for formula. My bro didn't have a problem eating from either source and I'm sure I didn't either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112277 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:03:42 +0000 lawbee11 2112277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Ha, yeah I don't watch the videos either. I don't even know if that's the official reason it's safer as I'm def no expert...just makes sense to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112276 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:03:19 +0000 twodoghouse 2112276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My in-laws could not understand swaddling with the Swaddlemes. They just hated how tight we would wrap them up. Whenever they'd be over and helping, they'd use the Swaddleme, but just sort of drape it loosely around the babies and then velcro it, totally defeating the point of a tight swaddle! </p> <p>My parents are more open to the new way of things, but they don't understand a lot of the feeding rules these days. My kids were barely 5 months and my dad asked if he could give them Cheerios! My mom said she gave us really thick rice cereal in our bottles at 6 weeks old! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112244 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:39:45 +0000 Foodnerd81 2112244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: I intentionally don't think about it. But yeah, I'm going to go with the experts on this, not dh's rationalization. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112239 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:36:56 +0000 lawbee11 2112239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@illumina: @Foodnerd81: It's still way safer to be RF when you get hit from behind. Think about it: whiplash is caused because the momentum is moving forward so your head/neck go forward then whip back. When RF, the child's head goes into the seat.</p> <p>ETA: My mom couldn't get over how bare LO's crib was. But she works at a children's hospital so she understands and didn't try to persuade me to add a bumper or anything like that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112230 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:30:52 +0000 blackbird 2112230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: only about 20% of car accidents are from the rear, anyways! And the seat absorbs it. I'm not a video watcher, either. There's a lot of "why rear face 12-24 months" but I've been scrounging for data supporting 24+ month ERF </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112190 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:47:15 +0000 Foodnerd81 2112190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom used to think the big expensive strollers were overkill, but then she pushed my sisters bugaboo and a cheapie stroller and realized how much smoother the ride is. Now she says she wishes they had better strollers when we were little. Hers didn't fold to go into a car at all, so they only place she could walk us was around our very residential neighborhood. Also, mommy meet up kind of things in general- she wishes she'd done something like that because she felt very isolated as a sahm. </p> <p>My grandma thinks everything is amazing. Like, I pulled out a pouch at her house and she was amazed. It's sweet. :)</p> <p>@illumina: Dh says the same thing about "what if you get hit from behind?" Ive told him a thousand times that rear facing is way safer, but that this is one thing I am just trusting and cannot read or watch videos explaining why. If he wants to do more research he is welcome to, but I will never get the crash test images out of my head and I just trust the experts on this issue! (He isn't advocating for turning her, just being a pain!). </p> <p>@littlejoy: lol at the lighter roller skates. I'd be so horrified if I saw Lo do that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112175 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:28:29 +0000 Meowkers 2112175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom keeps mentioning how when I was a baby I slept with a blanket and keeps asking "won't DD be cold?" She thinks it's weird that we put her a sleep sack and that's it. She's never commented in a negative way but she's just always baffled. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112169 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:17:01 +0000 Corduroy 2112169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom thinks toddler beds are a huge scam. She laughed at me when I said I was thinking about transitioning LO. </p> <p>My grandma was a big proponent of stomach sleeping. My mom said she used call my mom to remind her to flip us over to sleep on our bellies for good shaped heads. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112142 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:47:39 +0000 littlejoy 2112142@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wrkbrk: I would pretend the skates were lighters. So horrible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112122 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:21:03 +0000 wrkbrk 2112122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlejoy: I just got my bfp so my parents don't know yet lol but I am jumping in to say I had that same barbie!! Hahaha! What were they thinking? Oh, the 80s ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112110 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:03:09 +0000 Tanjowen 2112110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They don't get the fuss over breastfeeding. My mom did with some of us and some not and is puzzled by the"breast is best" campaign. The car seat rules baffle them too - they held us most times! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112080 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:26:53 +0000 namaste 2112080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom thinks breastfeeding is just crazy. Everyone in my family was FF by choice. </p> <p>She also thinks it's weird that we don't co-sleep and that LO is in her room already at two months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112078 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:25:51 +0000 Astro Bee 2112078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom has been stressing about finishing off the baby's quilt before he's born, even though I've told her countless times that he isn't going to be able to use it for god knows how long. "But what if he's cold?" I've showed her the Halo blankets, and SwaddleMes, which she thinks are weird. She also has been pointing out cute bumpers, even though I explain that they're considered a safety hazard. I think back-sleeping is a novelty to her, too.</p> <p>My MIL asks my opinion/policy on a bunch of stuff, and hasn't explicitly called me crazy and overprotective yet, but I get the look! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112067 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:20:33 +0000 autumnlove 2112067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My in laws and parents say stomach sleeping is best. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112056 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:06:10 +0000 Mamasig 2112056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom doesn't really comment on anything in a negative manner. Sometimes she just seems clueless that you were supposed to do things a certain way now - like sleeping on their backs. She also mentions that when we were babies, we just sat on her lap in the car. She also thinks it's a PITA that the cribs don't have a side that drops down. I get the safety reason but I also think it's a pain. When you are short and your baby fell asleep, it's really hard to get them in the crib gently. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112045 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:53:43 +0000 LuLu Mom 2112045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Rear facing until 2 was a big one, they just didn't understand why she had to be backwards that long. </p> <p>How when she was older I didn't rock her to sleep (she hated to be rocked) MIL would TRY AND TRY when babysitting to rock her to sleep and it drive me nuts because she would fall asleep after 2 minutes if you just laid her down and walked away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2112041 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:50:40 +0000 Anagram 2112041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Generally both our parents are really supportive of whatever we do/buy but my mom (mom of 6, grandma to 8) totally didn't understand my anxiety over LO sleeping on her back and SIDS. Or car seat safety. I mean, she's supportive over whatever I want to do, but doesn't understand the obsession with car crashes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111996 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:21:41 +0000 blackbird 2111996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlejoy: it was some pineapple and juice dessert! I was like, no wonder I liked it, LOL! Although I do like canadian bacon and pineapple pizza.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111991 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:19:43 +0000 Mae 2111991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mostly everyone has been envious of all the things we have now. Especially my mom with my iPhone lol. She was a SAHM and wishes she could've surfed the net while hanging out on the floor with her kids ;) Also.... the internet! The only new-fangled thing my mom thinks is weird is that we didn't start with rice cereal. But she didn't push it, just commented. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111975 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:03:32 +0000 littlejoy 2111975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@illumina: LOL. The worst. Like blackbird said, I know enough that I have a rebuttal for almost any car seat question, but seriously ... My mom admitted they used a bungee cord to tie my carseat into the bed of my dad's truck!!! Holy shit, mom!!!! (She said it was once, and just to the other side of our neighborhood.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111971 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:59:26 +0000 illumina 2111971@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlejoy: we were in the process of buying her new seat when my parents were visiting and at one point I told them to stop talking about the car seat because their advice wasn't helpful. So annoying! "What if you get hit from behind? Won't it be more dangerous then?" Etc </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111967 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:56:55 +0000 littlejoy 2111967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: I just talked to my mom about the baby food thing! She said she always bought individual jars, and had to mix them! She said it was a PITA!</p> <p>@blackbird: @avivoca: @illumina: Totally forgot about the car seat thing!! "Her legs look uncomfortable!" -- Yeah, but her back will appreciate RF if we crash!</p> <p>I find that older people are AMAZED at the cloth diapers we have these days!! </p> <p>@blackbird: Please tell me Hawaiian Delight was ham and pineapple!! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111951 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:41:20 +0000 illumina 2111951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Extended rear facing, that we put her down in her cot for naps, that she's still in a cot and not a toddler bed/proper bed at 18 months, that she doesn't use cutlery, that we did BLW... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111945 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:36:14 +0000 avivoca 2111945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Extended rear facing, for sure. My mom gets all huffy about it when I say it's safer, but I was FF at four months. They also don't understand the cloth diapering, even though I only cloth diaper part-time. I also got major side-eye for not wanting to do CIO (even though I ended up doing it) and for still feeding her in the middle of the night after six months. Oh, and breastfeeding past the time of her getting teeth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111941 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:28:48 +0000 blackbird 2111941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cloth diapering! But everyone's a fan now!</p> <p> I get the side eye for extended rear facing, but they don't push it because I'll lay some scientific facts on everyone's asses ;) </p> <p>@jedeve: heh, according to my mom, my favorite baby food was "hawaiian delight". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111931 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:21:22 +0000 jedeve 2111931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both sets of parents think our sleep sacks are ao weird and subtly or not subtly ask when we are going to let him have blankets. </p> <p>Also, we make our own baby food (which my mom thinks is super hippy. Ummmm or cheap.) But when we are out and about we tend to use jarred or pouches. My mom is always talking about how "they didn't make combinations back then. It was just peas or just broccoli or just appleaauce." Which I don't think I believe! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-make-your-parentsgrandparents-laugh#post-2111919 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:11:10 +0000 littlejoy 2111919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents &amp; grandparents are always amazed (and probably in disbelief at times) at the gear, parenting styles, and general kid stuff we use today.</p> <p>What would your parents and grandparents laugh at? </p> <p>For me, my mom cannot believe we don't put anything in the crib with LO. ... "A bumper will not kill her!"</p> <p>When I asked my mom if she did CIO or not, she said that didn't exist in the 80's. </p> <p>My dad hates childproofing (I also had a Barbie with roller skates that sparked when you rolled them, soooo). </p> <p>My grandparents &amp; great-grandpa loved that we had a homebirth, and didn't understand why people were so concerned.</p> <p>My other grandma gets a little snarky at times, and makes fun of the gear, but she LOVES the Ergo. She reads our blog (lol), and always calls me to talk about photos of our baby in the carrier. She wishes they had them in the 50's. </p>