‘Not appropriate’: Mum shares ‘creepy’ thing people say to her son
A woman has shared the “inappropriate” comment her newborn son keeps receiving, with others agreeing it would make them “uncomfortable”.
“Okay, can we just talk about the weirdest comment I get now that I have a son, that I never got with my daughter?” mum Alysse Gilbert began on a TikTok video.
She’s referring to a comment that’s in the same realm as “He’s going to be a heartbreaker” and “He’s going to have to bat the girls away” – aka sexual remarks to kids who can barely walk, Kidspot reports.
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‘He’s just a happy kid’
“Anytime I’m in public, and I have my son with me, if he remotely smiles at a stranger, I swear the comment I get is, ‘He’s such a flirt. He’s flirting with me!’” Ms Gilbert said.
“And I’m like, ‘Diane, you’re nearing 65, and he’s a baby. He’s not flirting with you’.”
She concludes her rant by saying she finds this comment “bizarre” before asking her viewers if they also find it weird.
“Like no, he’s actually just a happy kid,” she wrote in the caption, further putting those who say this sort of thing in their place.
‘Surely there’s a better word for this’
Fellow mums sounded off in the comments, with some sharing how they respond to these sorts of remarks.
“I always say, ‘What a strange thing to say about a child’,” one wrote.
“Gotta start making people feel uncomfortable.”
“I say, ‘It’s gas’,” chimed in another.
A third wrote, “I have literally started saying, ‘No, he’s not’.”
Another parent had an equally blunt approach and just responded, “He’s 21 months.”
But then a woman who admits to saying this exact line offered her own take, “I use the word flirting in a ‘they’re trying to dazzle you’ kind of way.”
“My kids are always trying to dazzle everyone with smiles … I say they’re flirting, but no one thinks I’m trying to marry them off,” she continued.
“I feel like flirting can be used as a platonic term and doesn’t always indicate sexual attraction.”
And someone else wrote, “I say my son’s a flirt sometimes. He’s 11 months. I’m not being serious.”
But a different user pointed out, “Surely there’s a better word for this.”
This article originally appeared on Kidspot and was reproduced with permission
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