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"Thankfully, none of my mom friends have this compulsion\u2014but lots of moms do! Plenty of people ask about Emmett&amp;#039;s milestones: Is he babbling? Playing with a rattle? Trying to crawl? It&amp;#039;s lovely that they ask and of course I&amp;#039;m happy to answer. But I get a little annoyed when the follow up with, &amp;quot;Oh, well my baby babbled/played with a rattle/walked/mastered the Pythagorean theorem by _____ months.&amp;quot; And the _____ is always two months before Emmett thought of doing any of it. And the kicker is when the add, &amp;quot;But don&amp;#039;t worry. Every baby develops differently.&amp;quot; Well, a) I wasn&amp;#039;t worried. And b) by saying, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t worry!&amp;quot; I feel like you&amp;#039;re implying that there&amp;#039;s reason I should be worried, and I might be a bad mom if I&amp;#039;m not worrying. (I&amp;#039;m not!) It&amp;#039;s especially frustrating when the mom in question&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;baby&amp;quot; is pushing 40 years old. Do you really remember when your baby started rolling over? Or are hindsight and rose-colored glasses turning your Average Jack or Jill into a Mensa genius? Am I being over-sensitive? Are people just trying to make conversation? Or does everyone else have a baby that&amp;#039;s smarter than your baby, too? (Not that you should worry!)  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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