What to Know
It really is your own kids sometimes that humble you and bring you back down to Earth if you feel even an ounce of confidence. Maybe it’s nature’s way of making sure you don’t fly too close to the sun. Or, it’s a harsh joke played on moms who do nothing to deserve their toddler asking if they’re pregnant when they aren’t, or asking why they have a mustache even though they wax every week. And yes, I am speaking from experience.
So when one mom on TikTok, Abbie, shared a video where she explains how her toddler humbled her hard, I was inclined to relate on a molecular level. She was basically attacked by her toddler for calling out her pregnancy weight gain. And in these situations, what can you really do but grit your teeth through it and try not to remind the toddler that at least you don’t defecate in a disposable diaper?
The worst insults really do come from your toddler, don’t they?
Abbie explains in her video that she is 35 weeks pregnant and she gained around 80 pounds total. So yes, she is aware that her body has changed during her pregnancy, and apparently, so are her kids. Her two-and-a-half-year-old son, Jagger, is the one to really make her feel that pregnancy weight, though.
Abbie says that she playfully splashed her kids while in a shower as they played nearby in a bathtub that’s also in the family’s bathroom.
After doing so, her son told her, “Stop splashing me, whale!”
And, just in case you thought the toddler might have forgotten about the incident the following day, that’s not the case by a long shot. Abbie says that, the next morning, her son told her, “Good morning, whale.” It is now her unofficial nickname that she never asked for.
One user commented that they might not have been so gracious after an insult like that. They wrote, “I’m sorry I laughed way too hard. I could never be around a brutally honest toddler. I’d start insulting back.”
Another user joked that Abbie’s son’s comment hurt their feelings, it was so harsh. Despite knowing that kids don’t mean any harm by comments like that, it’s never easy to hear.
Sometimes, it’s a little easier to let those types of comments roll off your back. But when you are 35 weeks pregnant, naked, and in a shower, in your most vulnerable form, that cut is pretty deep.
“The way I spit out my food when you said whale, omg lol these kids just don’t know the emotional damage they inflict with their innocence,” someone else commented.
“But man do we love them.” Yeah, I mean, I guess.
Other moms shared their own stories of their kids commenting on their weight gain during other pregnancies. The general consensus seems to be that kids suck.
OK, just kidding. But the overall idea here is that kids are honest to a fault, yet they are literally the only people who get a pass for these types of comments.
