Chef Tineke “Tini” Younger asks strangers to stop touching her baby
Posted by Relevant-Peach3997
Chef Tineke “Tini” Younger asks strangers to stop touching her baby
Posted by Relevant-Peach3997
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You should always ask
Honestly, she shouldn’t even have to ask. A baby isn’t public property, people need to stop acting entitled to touch strangers children.
Imagine thinking you can just touch a stranger’s baby without asking. Jeeeeeez.
it’s one thing that she even had to make her initial post, but the fact that so many people went *into her DMs* to tell her she’s “wrong” is unbelievable.
With antivaxx nonsense going mainstream, of course any parent is justified in wanting to be asked before a stranger touches their child. It’s a boundary that should exist regardless!
People shouldn’t be touching anyone of any age without permission unless it’s an emergency situation.
Especially babies who are more vulnerable to getting sick and people who touch them with their germy hands.
I can’t believe the people telling her she’s sour for not wanting total strangers just coming up to her and touching her baby. Would they want some rando coming up and touching THEM?
I love Tini but I can’t figure out why she responds or entertains trolls like this with so much energy. I totally get how she feels, but I can’t imagine taking time out of my life to reply to a stranger about my baby.
Are people out of their goddamn minds ?
She’s honestly being too kind to the weirdos in her messages. What on earth makes people think they’re entitled to touch a stranger’s baby?
Why do people think babies are public property….
Ask first… It’s really not that complicated….
I find it weird when people touch *dogs* without permission let alone a *human baby*. What the hell is wrong with people?
Ppl are so weird!
An old lady tried to touch my daughter when she was about 4 months old (she was two months prem and tiny, about 3kg at that point) so I rammed her with my pram and have zero regrets.
I swear the pandemic has made the antivax types so deranged they find like, glee in the potential of making others sick, like in some wild “rub some dirt in it” way. My cousin had a premie baby last year (10 weeks early!) and one of the baby’s grannies went to the hospital to visit it and hold it WHILE having a “mystery” respiratory illness like what the *fuck* is wrong with some people
Those people arguing with her are soooo wrong.
“If you don’t want strangers touching your baby then stay in your home”
I wish this person understood how rapey that logic is.
Why do these kinds of people view babies as public property
People are so bizarre and entitled.
This is what I mean when I say that old people and grown-ups are so entitled nowadays
No one ever tried to touch my stomach or my baby (I have two). Whether it was my extreme RBF or just my general air of “I will eat your face?” I don’t know. But never did I have to fight with anyone about this.
Keep your hands to yourself.
Gosh please what’s wrong with people?? First of all, they’re BABIES who can’t advocate for themselves but who are also deserving of boundaries. Also, their immune system is still developing.
start making funny faces to try and make babies laugh, instead. this is extremely satisfying. and even when the baby doesn’t laugh, I somehow always feel better after making a silly face.
My wife and I get annoyed when *family* touch our baby without asking, let alone strangers
My son had white blonde hair when he was born, and it was pretty thick even as a newborn. We got so many comments about it. When I would take him out on errands, I would always wear him in the baby carrier and it was crazy how many people would come up and touch his head while I was wearing him! Mainly little old ladies but it was terrible and happened constantly. I would see a hand come towards me and I would have to turn away or put my own hand on his head to stop people from actually touching him. I always figured wearing him vs having him in a stroller would limit the attempts to touch him but nope. People have zero boundaries and it’s not ok.
*sigh* This really shouldn’t still be a thing in 2026.
My mom had this bad habit, thankfully I’ve been able to make her understand why this is a problem. And always remember.
“Your *okay* is not the universal *okay* for everyone.”
Sure, maybe you don’t mind, but dang people, let’s respect boundaries 😩
I don’t get why people are so into babies. But I guess that’s why I’m not having kids 😂 they have never struck me as cute enough where I need to hold and touch them?
Touch NO ONE else unless you ask first!!!! Baby, Child, Teen, Young Adult or Old Adult. What’s so hard about CONSENT and/or keeping your hands to your damn self?
Insane.
I hate when I see people who aren’t the parents kiss a baby. My cousin has a family friend who kept kissing her newborn and she asked her to stop. The friend responded, “I just have to!” so my cousin stopped letting her come around for nearly a year.
I can’t even imagine the idea of a *stranger* feeling entitled to touch a baby.
It’s fucking crazy people are claiming they have some sort of privilege to TOUCH another person’s CHILD. Are we not all aware of the rampant pedophilia in this world? Or idk, the pandemic that happened literally 6 years ago?
the superiority that mothers who have multiple children have over first time mothers needs to be psychologically studied.
We need to start making people who say “then don’t go outside” whenever a woman vocies discomfort at being harassed/her boundries being crossed comfortable saying that. Please, start pointing at them and calling them weirdoes, I can’t comprehend why this is normalized.
People who insist that children are public property smell to me like they voted for republicans and that’s all I’m gonna say.
This has been a hot topic in the pregnancy and parenting threads forever. Apparently, many boomers will automatically touch your baby. It’s very odd.
Rule of thumb- don’t touch someone’s babies
Don’t hug or kiss babies unless you’re the parent. Family members seem to feel entitled to this rule, too
Didn’t she (Tini) also lose one of her babies very recently? Assuming this person would know that and STILL pushing back on her being protective is triple whack
People are so disgustingly entitled.
Some people have absolutely no care for boundaries it’s crazy
100% agree with her. My kids have curly red hair and the amount of people (ALWAYS elderly women) who run their fingers through it without saying a word to me or asking their permission is wild. I’ve had to get ugly a few times
Adults who struggle with boundaries are so scary to me
When my son was an infant, I smacked two old ladies on the hand for touching my baby in his stroller. This was in the summer of 2020, so they really had some nerve. I have no regrets and would do it again!
how much do you wanna bet the moms who responded have terrible boundaries with their kids 😭
people are such freaks! how are they being sooo condescending towards her over a completely normal concern??
I can’t imagine telling someone that they’re wrong for not wanting a stranger to touch their baby. Would it be clearer to them if touching the baby without permission came with being punched?
Last year a baby died of the flu in my hometown. It was devastating. The general public feels so entitled to touch (and kiss) strangers’ babies, and it is so freaking weird. Hopefully there will be asocial shift as younger generations age into becoming the grandmas at the grocery store who believe in personal space, consent, and viruses.
Yes, let’s teach our children that they should let strangers touch them, even if they don’t want it, because asserting bodily autonomy makes the strangers sad.
I barely even touched my own NIECE without asking when she was a little baby. I’m not just gonna manhandle someone else’s child without permission. People are fucking weird.