Kids These Days...Or Should I Say Parents.

I just read a status update on my Facebook that a friend of mine posted about other parents criticizing what my friend feeds her children. Please tell me when did it become okay to open your mouth with any kind of open ridicule about how someone raises their child(ren)? Don't get me wrong, advice is okay between parents, but is only warranted when it's asked for. What the hell makes these self-righteous parents think they know better about raising someone else's kids, much less dictate what they put in their mouths? As long as the kids aren't living on a diet of vodka-cranberry and rat poision just shut the hell up. What may work for your kid isn't always going to work for another. I had an incident myself where someone gave me hell for giving my kid sprite zero. I caught so much hell, and finally I lost it. (It doesn't take much for that to happen when my kid is involved.) I promptly told this mother that I would give my kid what I damned well pleased, and informed her that, no, I do not regularly give my child soda, but I was out in public and had no spare juice so the sprite I had in my hand was all there was and I told this woman I would be forever grateful if she just blew her judgements up her ass if she didn't have anything better to offer me than snide comments about my child's diet. The simple fact is, folks, if something is not inheriently harming the child, keep out of their damn business. Obviously that kid's parent isn't doing such a shabby job if the kid is alive and well. Oh, and if you would like to offer input, how's about asking first? If they say no, then shove off. Not so hard is it?