Parents who boast about their sprogs on Facebook

[Iggle Piggle]

I don't really think they're about safety for a minute. I just think it's a case of prospective parents getting caught up in the whole excitement thing and buying just about every item they can think of, whether necessary or otherwise Come on, NSCers: I bet you all bought loads of crap you rarely if ever used...

When you have kids, you buy all sorts of shit. A high chair in Ikea would cost a tenner and is perfectly adequate, however, I was hoodwinked into buying a bells and whistles 3 figure chair that took up half the kitchen that was akin to the inside of a Dalek. Eventually, it found its way to the garage and was replaced with a smaller, cheaper Ikea version. The list, though, is endless. The car seat top of the which tests, the pram which cost god knows how much, the expensive mattress that gets covered in sick and piss. We never had a 'Baby on board' sticker but it was about the only baby thing available on the planet we didn't have.

It's only when the kids are a bit older you see it for the stupidity it really is. If anyone wants to see how annoying parents with new borns are, go to your local swimming pool and watch a 'baby swimming lesson' For £25 quid or so, Junior gets to have nursery rhymes sang at him in the water, will develop no swimming swims and could still drown in the bath unattended.

 

[Flex Your Head]

People that live their whole lives online, fu** off no one gives a shi*!

Love the irony of this being posted online and receiving a 'like' / thumbs up!

 

[Brighton Boy]

hate it when people put stuff about their kids however, the failed relationship posts are the killer for me.

"Will I ever find the right person" "how can I trust again" "relationships aren't for me, I just can't be me"

The reason your not in relationships is because you say pish like that on Facebook to FB friends who you never see. The things you say in real life to your actual friends must be mind blowing.

 

[Worthingite]

Can't believe we've got to this point without mentioning a certain breed of people. I'm going to stereotype the hell out of them here. Generally the type of parent you will find on "benefits street", generally a bloated waste of a human body, screaming at her two tow headed little ******* children called Tyler and Mason, chuffing on a rollie and allowing her little shits to run riot whenever going to do food shopping. These are the types of people that you will see on facebook calling themselves Sharon "proudmummy" Smith, or Kylii "mummytoanangel" Jones. Absolutely hate this, and it annoy's the balls off me. Even worse are the absolute spunk receptacles that call themselves "Yummymummy". Oddly, these women are the first to go garity at anyone who dares to question anything on their fb, or if someone posts something they don't quite like.

 

[Nibble]

Haven't read through while thread so sorry if already mentioned. Pet hate is when my female friends go on a night out with their token munter/fatty. Cue a million comments from all the girls on the photos of said fatty/munter: " Gorgeous hun", "Beautuful", "What a stunner". She's clearly the most un-****able beast on earth.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Haven't read through while thread so sorry if already mentioned. Pet hate is when my female friends go on a night out with their token munter/fatty. Cue a million comments from all the girls on the photos of said fatty/munter: " Gorgeous hun", "Beautuful", "What a stunner". She's clearly the most un-****able beast on earth.

Lol

 

[DavidRyder]

Can't believe we've got to this point without mentioning a certain breed of people. I'm going to stereotype the hell out of them here. Generally the type of parent you will find on "benefits street", generally a bloated waste of a human body, screaming at her two tow headed little ******* children called Tyler and Mason, chuffing on a rollie and allowing her little shits to run riot whenever going to do food shopping. These are the types of people that you will see on facebook calling themselves Sharon "proudmummy" Smith, or Kylii "mummytoanangel" Jones. Absolutely hate this, and it annoy's the balls off me. Even worse are the absolute spunk receptacles that call themselves "Yummymummy". Oddly, these women are the first to go garity at anyone who dares to question anything on their fb, or if someone posts something they don't quite like.

Almost choked on my muffin when reading this - 'spunk receptacles' - made my day!

 

[happypig]

I don't really think they're about safety for a minute. I just think it's a case of prospective parents getting caught up in the whole excitement thing and buying just about every item they can think of, whether necessary or otherwise Come on, NSCers: I bet you all bought loads of crap you rarely if ever used...

Not a Baby on Board sticker, but when my lad was born, I got so caught up in buying stuff that I bought him one of those all in one snow suits; trouble is they didn't have his size so I bought one for him to grow into, and grow into it he did, the following August.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Quite how anyone uses Facebook regularly I don't know. My feed is usually a mixture of posts shared from the Cats protection league, pictures of cakes, pictures of people who are on deaths's door and pictures of the weather.

I went to a wedding last summer and people were instagramming the food. What happened to trying to shag the bridesmaid? That's why I prefer Twitter, you can easily unfollow all the crap.

This. If you chose to use Facebook you're hardly in a position to criticise the inane, self-indulgent shit people post on there. I'm over a year Facebook free, just need to wean myself off of the absolute waste of time that is NSC and I'll be sorted.

 

[BBassic]

I quit Facebook two years ago. Best decision ever.

Facebook is the equivalent of a bunch of people at a party, battered on coke, shouting over everyone else trying to get their witty story or insightful opinion heard.

Don't be those people.

 

[Baldseagull]

I've got a genuine question on this subject (sort of) actually.

Every parent thinks their child is gorgeous, right? That's what they have to say, obviously, as it wouldn't be right for them to publicly admit that Little Johnny is anything but a candidate for Cute Kid Of The Year awards. But is that a genuine, genetic reaction, to think your own child is beautiful, or is it possible to realise that, actually, they are a bit odd looking, as the rest of the world sees them?

Not sure I'll get a truthful answer I guess, as I don't suppose any parent is going to admit it (fair enough!), but I do wonder if nature automatically makes you consider somebody to be attractive simply because you're physically related to them, or whether a human can actually recognise that their own offspring looks like E.T. Anyone?

My daughter was the ugliest baby I have ever seen, looked like a miniature Charles Bronson for the first couple of months, then she morphed into a Pob lookalike for about a year and then she started to look normal, and she is quite a pretty teenager now.

 

[wsupp]

This thread is too weird. Does anyone who's posted negatively on here actually have kids?? What's the big deal? If you no likey, no looky isn't it?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I find it somewhat irritating. Don't have a problem praising their kids if they are on Facebook themselves. But when their children are not it just across as boasting and pointless. It used to be the case of Christmas cards and the 'letter' which amounted to the same thing. Who really gives a sh*t about little Johnny getting second prize in a spelling test or Sophie getting her Ballet certificate. Great. You made some children. Now your whole life evolves around them. Don't expect anyone else to care though...

Am I the only one who gets bored of this?

No, you're not the only one who gets bored, but not only bored - irritated as well.

We often thought of doing a mock Christmas letter, with comments like

"Our Jenny is doing fine now she is out of rehab, the first few weeks were difficult, and we had to confiscate her phone to stop her contacting her dealer, but we're over that now.

And Imelda's spell in prison really does seem to have done her the world of good. It has opened her eyes to the fact that Crime doesn't pay. We do wonder, though, what she is keeping in the garage that has to be kept so secret and locked away, and who "Big Momma" in Holloway prison is, with whom she is constantly in contact."

 

[Wrong-Direction]

This thread is too weird. Does anyone who's posted negatively on here actually have kids?? What's the big deal? If you no likey, no looky isn't it?

You can't help but look when its slapped in your face every five minutes!

 

[DavidRyder]

Don't even get me started on the annual letter at Christmas! I never get them but my mum does, from a friend - it's not a letter, but basically a roll of honour for the achievements of her and her offspring - along with photos. Totally impersonal of course, as she probably printed 100 off and sent the same to everyone.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Absolute tosh. So what if the kid is not present on that journey? Do you really think that the emergency services see that sign (which, btw the way, has probably been dislodged , or rammed into illegibility) and spend time looking for a child that may not be there rather than getting the driver etc out? Sorry but no.

Sorry, but it does happen. I read something comparatively recently about the emergency services spending time looking for a baby that might have been on board because of a sticker. nasty accident, people thrown clear of the vehicle and so on, so quite possible a baby could have ended up in a ditch.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I've got a genuine question on this subject (sort of) actually.

Every parent thinks their child is gorgeous, right? That's what they have to say, obviously, as it wouldn't be right for them to publicly admit that Little Johnny is anything but a candidate for Cute Kid Of The Year awards. But is that a genuine, genetic reaction, to think your own child is beautiful, or is it possible to realise that, actually, they are a bit odd looking, as the rest of the world sees them?

Not sure I'll get a truthful answer I guess, as I don't suppose any parent is going to admit it (fair enough!), but I do wonder if nature automatically makes you consider somebody to be attractive simply because you're physically related to them, or whether a human can actually recognise that their own offspring looks like E.T. Anyone?

Our first daughter was small but perfectly formed from day one, and was always very pretty. The second initially was very much in the Winston Churchill lookalike/Bulldog mode.

I do now realise, though, as a grandfather, that I can quite possibly be a bit tiresome about how wonderful my two and a half year old granddaughter is.

 

[sydney]

i like fb for the interesting stuff , keepin in touch with pals around the world , winding me mates up and posting tunes to my home page ,i don't tell everyone how my morning work out was , how good my coffee was , how many wipes my 11.30 ish crap needed , or where im off to for after work drinkies..........bore off ...ffs...!!

 

[sydney]

Can't believe we've got to this point without mentioning a certain breed of people. I'm going to stereotype the hell out of them here. Generally the type of parent you will find on "benefits street", generally a bloated waste of a human body, screaming at her two tow headed little ******* children called Tyler and Mason, chuffing on a rollie and allowing her little shits to run riot whenever going to do food shopping. These are the types of people that you will see on facebook calling themselves Sharon "proudmummy" Smith, or Kylii "mummytoanangel" Jones. Absolutely hate this, and it annoy's the balls off me. Even worse are the absolute spunk receptacles that call themselves "Yummymummy". Oddly, these women are the first to go garity at anyone who dares to question anything on their fb, or if someone posts something they don't quite like.

lol.....

 

[Brovion]

They are for the emergency services should the car be in an accident.

What if the baby ISN'T on board? The Emergency Services could waste precious minutes looking through the wreckage for a non-existent baby. I know for a fact people don't take them down when the baby isn't with them.

Fortunately they've become a lot less ubiquitous in recent years as people have realised they made no difference whatsoever. As usual the Simpsons got it right:

Marge: "Hey look Homer! I got one of those 'Baby on Board' stickers. Now people will stop intentionally ramming us!" I think that shamed quite a few.