The dreaded Facebook...but I am a bit miffed!

[Downnotout]

My DS and his GF have just spent a week with us on holiday. I'm still here but they have gone home. DS posted a pic of DD ( his little sis) on FB. She is 10. I have no problem with it- just head and shoulders.

I have just spotted a vindictive status from someone I know saying" 7 holidays a year, your child might be glowing and bronzed now but how will they be in 15 years time?"

I know it's aimed at me. Fwiw I haven't had 7 holidays ( who has?). It's just p**ed me off. It's only a snap of his sister FGS. Tell me I am BU because I really want to tell her to sod off and I don't post cryptic comments on FB and this isn't a stealth boast. DD was wearing factor 50 and a hat.

It was a personal attack on your parenting. It's okay to be riled, but you'll show yourself to be the better person by saying nothing. Put it this way, she couldn't even find something real to put you down about. The comment's there, in public, making her look like the eejit she is.

I'd definitely delete her, how you are managing not to use jennys suggestion I don't know.
Out of my DC 2 have very olive skin, although I am blonde and pale so I slap the suncream on at first sign of sun-they too are always glowing throughout summer. Silly woman probably doesn't realise that happens

jealousy plain and simple. Ignore the bitter person. I would not even give it a further thought. She's shown herself up. Delete the idiot.

Just delete her.

If you do run into her in RL & she's silly enough to bring it up, just be completely direct: 'You made a comment about a photo of my dd which I thought was unnecessarily rude & looking for a fight tbh, but I didn't want to have an online ruck about it because we have mutual friends who might've felt embarrassed.'

She won't though - she'll slither back under her rock. & probably carry on sniping from there, but you won't be able to see, so won't be tempted to react, & she'll look increasingly ridiculous.

You could just respond:, "she'll be 15 years older...? What's your point?"

But I'd just delete her.

You haven't had 7 holidays in a year, it cannot possibly be about you, just choose to believe that and you will calm down.

Ignore her. Don't get into a cat fight on facebook. Vair tacky.

If I understanf correctly, she commented on your DSs facebook not yours? You could ask him to delete the post if it bothers you, but I would just ignore it.

I also want to know how you stop children getting a tan?

We have been on the beach every day this week, the DDs have had factor 30 on and shorty wet suits or sun suits on but DD1 has very tanned legs and her face is definitely brown....they haven't burnt but look very healthy...

Ignore her OP she sounds a nasty piece of work.

A tan is not healthy it is a sign the skin has been damaged.

If you are going on a beach holiday apply factor 50 and reapply it often, also most people don't put on as much as they should. Wear a hat and light long sleeve cotton clothes when not in the water. Where there is shade, sit under it. Choose the table in the shade to eat your lunch rather than the table in the sun. Walk on the side of the road that has shade.

If you are spending a week on the beach I would expect you would bring your own shade, in the form of a sun umbrella or tent.

It might sound like hard work remembering this stuff, but it isn't when it becomes second nature.

If you get a tan, I think worrying about rickets is a non issue and stupid self justification.

Guess where I was brought up? I know too many people who have had skin cancers cut out, it is standard in my parents generation to get skin cancers removed. Seeing as so many people travel abroad from the UK to have sun holidays, I do think there might be problems being stored up for the future. Of course I hope I am wrong. Also in the UK skin cancers are not diagnosed as early as in other countries which is important for survival rates.

still it was a bit of a bitchy comment.