Those moms

Before you became a mom I'm sure you did this too. You used to watch other moms interacting with their kids. These "study sessions" gave you grounds to form your opinion of the type of mom you would become. Of course you wouldn't do the things "those moms" did that drove you nuts!

Our son was sick a couple days ago. And, being a "responsible" mom I chose to keep him home until his fever was gone. Well, the fever had been broken all day and he was back to the way he usually is, but for some reason he has a cough that has stayed behind.

This is my pet peeve. I don't understand why people take their sick, and miserable, children to public places and let them cough and sneeze in everyone's direction and act like there's nothing wrong.

I have been around a lot of children, and had some medical training. All of my experience and training tells me that a child with no fever is no longer contagious, or too sick to go out. This is why when my husband suggested we go use our Christmas gift card, I agreed.

Our son hadn't coughed much during the day, but of course that would have to change when we got to the restaurant! I had become one of "those moms" that I had always vowed I wouldn't be. My son was coughing, and it sounded REALLY bad, in the direction of people who were eating. I felt so uncomfortable! I KNEW that he wasn't sick, and that this was just leftover congestion, but he still sounded like he was sick. I felt a little better after the little girl at the table next to ours coughed a couple times.

I guess when we were watching people before we became mommies we should've had a little more compassion. I'm guessing that while we were busy watching, they may also have been thinking that they had turned into one of "those moms" too!