family chastised for raising 2 kids in two bedroom condo

[Liberal_in_LA]

https://www.facebook.com/kelly.bruning/posts/10154539241923930

Two parents in San Diego received a shocking letter in the mail criticizing the size of their home and claiming it is too 'tiny' for them to live in with their young boys.
Parents Mike and Kelly Brüning shared the anonymous letter they received in a Facebook post, that has now gone viral.
The couple have two young boys, ages two and four, and have lived in the two-bedroom condominium for nine years.
Their Mission Beach neighborhood is built on a strip of land that's located between Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean, as the family's home is just steps away from the beach.
The letter, which was simply addressed 'Mike and Kelli', was sent by someone who only referred to themselves as the zip code for the area, '92109'.


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[Warpy]

1. There is only one response to writers of notes like this one

"Go to hell."

Nothing else is required.

[rockfordfile]

8. I agree

[NBachers]

44. I can think of a few other responses . . . You can fill in the blanks.

[hlthe2b]

2. I had someone accuse me of cruelty for keeping a lab/aussie mix in a condo, even though

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those who know me know that I walk 9 miles on average daily with my dog and 63 or more miles each week (and have done so for several years). Further, my dogs have always had time at the dog park 3-4 days weekly... So I'd like to know how that was "cruel" compared to the average dog owner that walks maybe 10 minutes around the block once or two times daily and/or tosses them out in a small fenced yard with no real exercise and minimal doggy interaction.

Some people are just clueless...

[exboyfil]

27. Your dog must simply love you

I can only do about 4 miles/day with my sheltie/aussie and border collie. Was more when I was younger.

[hlthe2b]

32. I like to think so...

BTW, don't knock 4 m/day.... That is so far above the average person, much less dog owner... I do more because keeping weight off for me, requires that... But is sometimes a struggle. And, there are days when even my very active dog doesn't feel like it.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. A lot of people feel entitled to tell other people how to run their lives, don't they.

Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with those folks, other than they're walking around with some serious emotional damage themselves.

[raccoon]

16. And also they apparently need to get a life. nt

[Retrograde]

4. Pfft - my grandparents raised seven kids

in a one-bedroom house: the attic was divided, one half for the boys, the other for the girls. I shared a bedroom with two sisters growing up. The kids seem to have loving parents - and a beach not too far away - sounds like a good deal to me!

The notion that all kids have to have their own rooms is new, within the last generation or two. Humans have coped with a lot less for a long time.

[raccoon]

17. You sure as hell got that right.

The notion that all kids have to have their own rooms is new, within the last generation or two.

If you're younger than a boomer, ask boomers around you. This boomer here, I didn't have my own room as a kid--had to share with a bitchy sib. Most of my classmates also had to share a room with one or more sibs.

[spooky3]

22. Grew up in a family of 5 in a 1000 square foot house.

One of our neighbors had 6 kids in the same sized house.

[Lucinda]

5. ...

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Guess rudeness and intruding into other people's lives is the new normal. n/t

[ScienceIsGood]

7. Wow, I bet 50% of american children would love that situation. Seems like a great place. n/t

[Takket]

9. yeah because every family can afford a house with a yard and swingset

if this nosy person is so concerned with the children's welfare, why doesn't he/she buy house for them and their kids???????

someone needs a heaping helping of "go fuck yourself"

[Generic Brad]

10. That's how we raised our daughter

Living in the condo meant we did not have yard work. It gave us more family time together which we spent in parks when the weather was nice or inside our local Children's Museum when the weather stunk. It was easier to go on vacations into the great outdoors too because we could just pack and go.

There are a million ways to raise kids. A loving home is the only requirement that matters.

[dalton99]

11. What's with all these anonymous notes?

[Mendocino]

12. Golly Gee

I had to share a 9x10 room with my brother until he went to college. Turned me into an axe murdering psychopath but I got better.

[Dawson Leery]

13. Fuck Off!

The white-flight post war suburbs are nothing to be proud of.

[Warpy]

14. No shit. That backyard swing set is a total yawn

I always preferred the stuff at the city parks or walks in the woods when we didn't live in a city.

I learned to despise suburbs when I was a teenager. The intervening years have not changed my opinion. I can live in cities, I can live in small rural towns but you can keep the damned suburbs. I hate them.

[Dawson Leery]

20. Ever grow up in a white flight yuppie suburb?

They are just as bad as the backwood hicks on matters of race/gender/sex.

[Warpy]

43. I grew up in the 50s

Tell me about it.

[madokie]

15. 5 of us kids

plus mom and pop living in a three room house that would fit in many of the big mcMansions being built todays living room.

We all turned out ok.

As kids were coming of age and moving out new ones were being born otherwise I'd not be here today as I'm third from the last of 13

[Odin2005]

18. I bet this person leaving the note is the same kind of lunatic who calls CPS...

...on any parent who doesn't pathologically over-protect their kids. This family needs to lawyer up and document EVERYTHING just in case CPS gets called on them.

[JI7]

19. if this is real the person is an idiot. the beach is the yard for them

They aren't going to be spending their free time in the house much if they have a beach they can easily get to.

Maybe thr person who wrote the letter wants to live there and is trying to get that family to sell that home.

[Nye Bevan]

21. I had to share a room with my brother and 6 of us shared a bathroom at one point,

kind of like the Brady Bunch. I've turned out OK except for a disturbing tendency to post snarky comments on internet discussion boards.

[KittyWampus]

41. I grew up in a tiny house w/six people and one bath, one tv and one telephone.

In the Summers we worked at my Grandparents and I slept in the livingroom on the couch.

[NightWatcher]

23. The note was probably from a neighbor who hates kids

[spanone]

24. dear anonymous.....go fuck yourselves

[Tikki]

25. Steps to the Beach......to the note writer..Jealous Much!!!

Tikki

[DUgosh]

26. Sounds like somebody

Really wants their condo. Location, location, location.

[Barack_America]

28. What horseshit. I'm currently fighting to keep my sons in separate rooms.

They want to be together, but I feel they're still too young.

This is most likely the work of a neighbor who doesn't like the presence of children in the building. Tough shit for them. Don't want neighbors? Buy a single-family house.

[mrsv]

29. I bet

The writer of the letter is a republican

[oldtime dfl_er]

30. I grew up

in a 4 bedroom house. Sounds good, except there were 12 of us. One bathroom.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Generations of kids were raised in small houses

and lived to tell about it. I grew up in a small house with only ONE bathroom that my parents and two brothers and I had to share! My brothers shared a bedroom; I had one to myself but it was minuscule. The house I live in now is quite small - less than 1000 sq. ft., and originally it had 2-1/2 tiny bedrooms in what's basically a finished attic and only one small bathroom, which was downstairs. When I moved in 25 years ago the neighbors told me that there had once been a family with eight kids living there. Somehow people managed. The kids in the condo are sharing a bedroom. BFD. Looks like they have nice parents who love them and they get to go to the beach all the time. The note-writer has a lot of nerve calling the parents selfish.

[0rganism]

33. the writer of that letter needs to get busy

millions of parents all over the world would clearly benefit from the author's superb advice

[appleannie1]

34. The size of a house is not what is important to child, the size of your heart is.

It is taking the time to read to the child. Taking the time to play age related games with the child. Allowing the child to help you whether cleaning or cooking and praising them for doing so. It is teaching them right from wrong and showing them what respect is. A child raised with all of the above in a one room shack is better off than a child with a whole floor to himself in a mansion.

[Johonny]

35. signed, person that is trying to buy up beach front property to turn into McMansions...

[Marengo]

36. My wife grew up in a two bedroom apartment, in a city of 15 million...

And she's just fine.

[mcar]

38. Yeah, those kids sure are suffering

[Vinca]

40. Poor kids. Imagine . . . forced to play on the beach every day.

It's a living hell.

[Initech]

42. WTF is wrong with people?