Citations:sanctimommy

English citations of sanctimommy

Noun: "(informal, pejorative) a mother who exhibits a superior attitude and openly judges others' parenting"

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• 2006, Melissa Senate, The Breakup Club, Red Dress Ink (2006), →ISBN, page 70:

  She smiled back. "Don't let the sanctimommies get to you."

• 2006, Jodi Kantor, "Sanctimommy", The New York Times, 24 December 2006:

  In any case, it was probably on Internet parenting sites like www.urbanbaby.com, where sanctimommies gather, “attacking others in the cruelest fashion, under the protective veil of Internet anonymity,” wrote Liz Gumbinner in an authoritative dissection of the term on her blog, Mom-101. “I have observed the abhorrent ‘I feel sorry for your kids’ response applied equally to working moms, single moms, and moms who feed their children American cheese singles.”

• 2007, Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings, Crown (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Yes, the Slope is known for having more sidewalk-hogging sanctimommies than any other neighborhood in all five boroughs.

• 2008, Ann Leary, Outtakes from a Marriage, Three Rivers Press (2008), →ISBN, page 60:

  I had always viewed these women as ridiculous but harmless sanctimommies, but now I felt a sense of guarded rage toward them.

• 2008, Amy Richards, "Scary rise of the ‘sanctimommy’", The Washington Times, 8 June 2008:

  “Opting In” might be read more profitably as an account of the rise of the “sanctimommy,” as the Internet has dubbed these infuriatingly holier-than-thou types.

• 2009, Liz Gumbinner, "Type B Mom", in See Mom Run: Side-Splitting Essays from the World's Most Harried Blogging Moms (ed. Beth Feldman), Plain White Press (2009), →ISBN, page 140:

  I'm late for pediatrician appointments. I can't make straight parts in my girls' hair. I forget to send them in the snow with hats, as the kind sanctimommies of the neighborhood are delighted to point out with their eyebrows raised as far as Botox will allow.

• 2009, Amy Sohn, Prospect Park West, Simon & Schuster (2009), →ISBN, page 55:

  Abbie adored Sonam, but was going through a phase of separation anxiety, and today she was screaming in agony, "Mommy!" with tears streaming down her pink cheeks.

  The sanctimommies had turned to stare, casting Rebecca looks of bald accusation.

• 2010, Colin Sokolowski, The Accidental Adult: Essays and Advice for the Reluctantly Responsible and Marginally Mature, Adams Media (2010), →ISBN, page 104:

  She even has to endure the occasional judgments from sanctimommies—women who are much, much better mothers than Kelly and who sometimes wonder aloud, "Why can't her kids swim yet?" or "Why is she drinking a glass of wine at her daughter's birthday party?" (God no!)

• 2012, Allison Kaplan Sommer, "Mayim Bialik: When an attachment parent detaches from her marriage", Haaretz, 26 November 2012:

  But Waldman’s reaction spoke for any vulnerable young mother holding a bottle subjected in public to a drive-by comment from the lactation police that “breast is best,” or, who, desperate for a few consecutive hours of sleep, let her child cry for ten minutes in her crib before settling, was made to feel as though she had subjected her offspring of child abuse, by one of the Bialik-style “sanctimommies.”

• 2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, Penguin (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  From the moment you become a sanctimommy (or the elusive sanctidaddy!), people will be split into two categories: "Us" and "Them."

• 2014, Amy Sprenger, Yes Mommy: The Mayhem and Madness of Not Saying No, Sheffield Publishing Group (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  "Your kids have been running around terrorizing the other kids while you've been busy on your phone over there," she says caustically. Oh momma, now it's on. "They're not even wearing swimming suits."

  "Well, we weren't planning to go in the water," I start. "But I can't say …" I trail off and stop mid-sentence. Why the hell do I need to explain myself to sanctimommy over here?