A mother of twins has posted a photo of her daughters with a list of answers to the “intrusive” questions she often receives about them. If you’re a parent, you may have been asked some pretty personal questions about your children from well-meaning strangers, as had one mother of twins, Annie Nolan, who aired her frustrations about the “intrusive” inquiries with an online rant and is now receiving backlash.
The Australian blogger and mother-of-three, Nolan, 26, was increasingly frustrated by the barrage of comments and questions she received whenever she left the house with her 2-year-old twin girls, Delphine and Cheska. So she wrote a humorous cheat sheet of answers and attached it to her daughters’ double stroller. On Thursday, Nolan posted a photo of the sign and her girls to her blog Uncanny Annie’s Facebook page, where it quickly racked up 21,000 likes and more than 7,000 shares. Continue…
Nolan, who did not return a request for comment from Yahoo Parenting, captioned the photo, “I REALLY wanted to leave these signs on the pram today…I know people are coming from a great place and are just curious however many can be quite intrusive and after a while it’s just plain exhausting.” Although Nolan didn’t actually leave the house with the sign, online commenters are saying she’s an ungrateful and neglectful mother.
Some gems from Nolan’s sign include:
“Yes they are mine.”
“Yes they are twins.”
“No, not identical.”
“Conceived by f***ing.”
“Born via C-section.”
“Yes, my hands are full.”
On Monday, Nolan took to Facebook again to address her critics. She wrote, in part, “This photo was staged. I did not actually walk them around like this… If I had of known it was going to be this big, I wouldn’t [have] sworn. It was my way of expressing my frustration with the ‘are they natural’ question… absolutely NEVER meant to hurt a single soul with this photo…I am grateful for my children EVERYDAY,” she wrote.
Do you think she went too far?
