A 48-year-old mother from London was shamed for not putting socks on her son in summer by a stranger.
Writer Lebby Eyres, who lives with her husband Fred Guétin, daughter Inès, 13, and son Vincent, 10 in London, went on a holiday to Teignmouth in Devon to visit her sister-in-law Jo.
Lebby and her sister-in-law Jo were at the Teignmouth Festival with their children, when a woman shamed her for not putting socks on her son Vincent.
The woman grabbed her son’s feet and said: “What’s your baby doing without any socks on?”
“Look at him, his toes are like icicles. You should be ashamed of yourself. And his nose is running! He’ll get ill if you let him go dressed like that!”, she added.
The mother was left humiliated as she told the Sun: “I thought I had everything before I stepped out the front door every day. Nappies? Check. Changing mat? Check. Change of clothes? Check.”
“The one thing I didn’t have was socks. But this was more of a deliberate choice on my part than an oversight.”
Lebby said she always thought it’s rude to go up to a complete stranger and lecture them on their parenting abilities.
But, when she was criticized for not putting socks on her son in summer by a complete stranger, she was left speechless.
She said the worst thing was, she didn’t even give her the chance to speak up for herself.
She felt humiliated and embarrassed as she didn’t get the chance to defend herself.
She told the Sun: “It ruined the whole day – I couldn’t help replaying it all in my head, and imagining what I would have said in response if she’d given me a chance – but she was too much of a coward to let me have my say.”
She said she wasn’t wrong as it was a sunny day but still, the incident made her feel like a terrible mother.
She said what new mother need is support, not shaming.
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