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To think pictures of babies with food on their faces are gross?

71 replies

EirikurNoromaour · 13/01/2014 21:30

I'm not asking 'why do people do this' because I definitely did it too when DS was small and I wrongly thought weaning pictures were funny. I might even have put one on Facebook. But they are actually so gross. All I think when I see one is 'that lovely face is spoilt by that crusted on baked bean juice' and it just makes me feel a bit ill. I also find kids with food encrusted faces a bit grim in real life, maybe I'm a weirdo.

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madamecake · 14/01/2014 05:34

If you're odd then so am I. I don't mind pictures with a bit of chocolate on their faces (chocolate is good in any situation), but anything else is gross.

I also don't like seeing toddlers running around with snotty noses and parents not wiping them. Yuk!

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EirikurNoromaour · 14/01/2014 06:05

Hooray! A load more weirdos! Yes I also cannot stand it when people don't wipe their child's snotty nose. Just why? It's revolting. Oh one of the worst Facebook offences I've seen was a friend who posted a picture of her son with two sand encrusted snot trails at the beach. That was vomitous.

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JingleBrains · 14/01/2014 06:08

Bunch of weirdos!!! Grin

Babies with (fresh) food on their faces are hilarious.

JupiterGentlefly · 14/01/2014 06:56

No I don't like it either

Eminybob · 14/01/2014 07:16

Yes I'm so glad I'm not the first to sat it. It makes me feel a bit sick. Babies are cute regardless, but food mess is not.

Probably won't stop me doing it with mine though Blush

JupiterGentlefly · 14/01/2014 07:19

Those bibs with a turn up that catch food in make me want to puke too

grapelovingweirdo · 14/01/2014 07:24

In my eyes, there's nothing more disgusting than seeing a baby with its face smeared in food. Makes me heave. I've often wondered if this makes me a bit weird. YANBU Smile

Janorisa · 14/01/2014 07:27

I think they're cute...I

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2014 07:29

Really don't see the big deal. Food is meant to be enjoyed and yes as adults we shoukdvt play with food but fir babies the playing is important. They are learning about textures and hopefully not become afraid of good making a bit of a mess or textures being a bit fussy. All this paranoid cleaning them off after every mouthful can actually do harm. So what if they make a mess. Let them enjoy it and enjoy their food. I think it's quite sweet to see babies (and mess is part of them learning to feed themselves) smiling like crazy enjoying their food. Let them get on with it.

VenusOfWillendorf · 14/01/2014 08:46

I don't like them either. And I also don't like seeing kids with face paint - and I don't mean just kids painting on their own faces, but also 'professional' paint where kids have tigers or whatever painted on them. I think it spoils their little faces. I am most certainly weird!

BlueStones · 14/01/2014 08:52

You're totally correct, Giles, but the images of such experiments don't need to be shared. In my view. As I said, I know I'm in the minority and I'd never hurt a parent's feelings by commenting in RL.

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2014 08:56

Well to then they are important. I'm sure some of the things we post up annoy others. It takes seconds to scroll down the news feed it's easy to skip past them.

Nothing is ever going to be as exciting or important to us as it is to those involved. Just one of those things really. Not harming anyone. It's not as annoying as the "share this or rainbows turn black" posts :o

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2014 09:02

Besides, they aren't shared for "you " to see. Sometimes it's for dads who areaway and family they don't see often.

I think people take things a bit personally tbh.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 14/01/2014 09:05

Utterly gross.

They look like they've been sick down themselves.

Yes yes, yadda yadda, we don't have to look and yes, babies have to get their hands in their dinner and lob it round the kitchen, but, as Mintyy says, unless you are the parent, or at a push, the grandparent, no-one else gives a flying one that Junior is onto the mush.

I took one picture of dd during hands-in-pasta phase. I would never dream of inflicting it on my friends/family. But then I use my FB to talk to my friends/family not to show off my kids.

Writerwannabe83 · 14/01/2014 09:18

I completely agree - I have never understood why parents think it's cute or why they want to put photographs on FB of their child looking in such a state!! Just gross!!

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2014 09:22

So, just out of curiosity can we have a list of what is ok for people to post?

Pictures aren't
Sharing statuses- I'll agree with that one

Is there anything that is "allowed" to be posted where people who have the option to not look in the first place won't get PO or annoyed. If a photo annoys you then your day can't have been that great to start with tbh.

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2014 09:23

And why are you all on face book anyway when everything posted annoys you??

How's it there fault when you keep looking????

RayPurchase · 14/01/2014 09:32

YANBU - makes me gag.

FuckingWankwings · 14/01/2014 09:35

Looking at anyone with food smeared on their face makes me feel sick. Doesn't matter if they're baby, child or adult.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 14/01/2014 09:35

Oh, I hide all my friends who become babybores Giles.

And thank the lord that FB didn't exist when dd was a toddler, or I might have been tempted to give the impression my brain had fallen out of my vagina along with the placenta as well. I find that once children get to about 10 I can unhide people again as they get back to normal.

pictish · 14/01/2014 09:36

Yanbu - it's stomach turning. I don't think it's cute on my own kids, let alone anyone else's. Yuck!

theDudesmummy · 14/01/2014 09:38

Depends on the food I would say. One of my favourite pictures of DS is one with chocolate pudding all over his face. If it had been stew or something I probably wouldn't like it so much!

vladthedisorganised · 14/01/2014 09:42

YANBU. I really hate the food-all-over the face stage, and as for food being used purely as a sensory thing - eurgh!
I'm kind of with Casmama on this one though. A small smudge of yoghurt is one thing, but beans.... oh God.

And as for the crawling around in food - that's so many kinds of wrong I can't begin to describe it! There are alternatives, surely?

Justforlaughs · 14/01/2014 09:44

I have one photo of DS in a mess with candy floss, that I still think is cute, but I think it's more to with the look on his face as he tries to work out how to get it off his fingers than anything. Chocolate/ main course meal - really yuk!

randomAXEofkindness · 14/01/2014 09:45

It seems like there are two camps here: people who can find babies 'vomitous' and 'disgusting', and people who can't, even if they've got a bit of snot or food on their little faces. I'm glad I'm in the second camp.

I couldn't trust someone who could find a baby repulsive. It hasn't got much to do with reason, so I don't think YABU. I might think that you've got a bit missing though - and I'd never leave my kids with you. Sorry.