18-05-2025
Young Mom of Baby Is Annoyed with Doctor's Parenting Tip: ‘It Was Out of Order and an Arrogant Thing to Say'
A Mumsnet user is wondering if she should confront her baby's doctor about a piece of unsolicited parenting advice he offered
The young mom recalled that the doctor said, 'Parenting tip here for you: Do not let them look at your phone'
'I'd find it patronizing,' another Mumsnet user repliedJust what the doctor ordered isn't making one young mom feel better.
The mom detailed a recent doctor's visit on the U.K.-based community forum Mumsnet, where she shared a general practitioner's unsolicited parenting tip.
'I took my baby to a doctor's appointment regarding a rash under their chin after beginning weaning. My baby was lying on the bed and we needed them to look up so the doctor could see,' she wrote, before adding that she dangled her keys and phone's screensaver in the air.
'My baby smiled and looked up, so this worked,' she continued. 'The doctor glanced for half a second under her chin and said straight-faced, 'Parenting tip here for you: Do not let them look at your phone.' I laughed thinking it was a joke, but it was obvious from his expression that it wasn't.'
The doctor's comment took the mother by surprise.
'I feel a bit annoyed to be honest. Even if I were playing cartoons, he is there to look at a medical concern and not comment on anything else,' she said, noting that she left her husband in the car and now wonders if the male doctor would have made the same statement if he were in the room.
'I do think it was out of order and an arrogant thing to say,' the mom confessed, before asking if it would be unreasonable to confront the doctor.
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In a Mumsnet poll under her post, 87 percent of the nearly 200 voters selected 'You are being unreasonable' as their voting option.
'Let it go — it's just advice you don't agree with,' one reader replied.
However, another person disagreed, commenting, 'I'd find it patronizing, but I don't know if I'd be pissed off enough to make a complaint.'
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