To secretly judge those who share stupid parenting memes?

[Bellerina2]

I go to Facebook today and someone has shared this:

"My promise to my kids~I am not your friend..I am your mother. I will stalk you, flip out on you, lecture you, drive you insane, be your worst nightmare and hunt you down like a bloodhound when needed because I LOVE YOU!! When you understand that, I will know you are a responsible adult. You will NEVER find someone who loves, cares and worries about you more than I do!"

Am I the only one who sees this sort of thing and thinks "well that's one way to ensure your kids move out and never visit you again"?

Then there's the nauseating ones about mother's of boys protecting their princes and no other woman's love ever being able to compare etc etc. I start to wonder if anyone thinks for themselves any more!

And it isn't just parenting memes, it's the "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" ones too - why???

Hmm, why can't I upload images? Let's try this again...

Molly I have that friend as well, to the point I never ask how they are, the response is always 'oh, ok , I guess', in the same melodramatic tone .

I have a fb 'friend' who always posts pukesome messages about the special mother/daughter relationship. However, she also has a son who never gets a sickly sweet post directed at him, don't know if I feel bad for him or not!

The inspirational ones make me heave. Some of the others are just so nasty, negative and aggressive - like the dad one. "Whatever you do to her, I'll do to you?" wtf?! So you'll be swinging off a chandelier and giving your son in law the sex of his life then will you? Cheeky snog in the kitchen? Telling him he's beautiful? UGH.

love the pisstaking funny ones though - I never knew Abraham Lincoln said that....wise man.....

I have a friend who is so smug and posts these memes. Also her child is obviously the most amazing and all her parenting choices are just effing brilliant, nevermind she has a full-time nanny who does all the actual parenting.

Her husband also always comments on all her posts and says things like "Well done to the fabulous Jules!" urghhhh! She also has what my DH dubs "the glee club" who always tell her how great she is, it is puke-tastic. Ironically we used to be quite close but her FB profile just puts me off.

Sorry rant over

They all drive me crackers and the words 'share this' makes me want to draw blood!

How is this secretly judging them...?

another one that puts me on edge is the 'share this pic of me with no make up to eradicate cancer' - er how does that work then?

Minions. Millions of Minions posts. Fucking hate them.

Share this if you have a wonderful son or daughter you love with all your heart!

Just why.....if you don't love your child then there is something far wrong.

Oh Lord...

I have someone on my FB who I am realistically unable to delete political reasons. She constantly posts these things - think 10 or 15 a day sometimes - and often posts along the lines of "just made a cup of coffee luv my husband luv my daughta x, love my son y, love my sleeping-born-angel-baby-z rip baby 01.01.01 mwah mwah mwah, thems all my world, I luvs them, you hurt them, i rip you 2 shreds cause they my world".

The certain amount of irony is her kids (eight at last count and just given birth to the 8th) have been in care for the last 3 years because she doesn't feed them and spends all her money on booze and fags. She has contact arranged through a contact centre to see three of them but won't go and see them because "I'm not paying bus fare to see them".

facepalm

StawberryTallCake I need that as an actual book in my hot little hands.

I don't have fb anymore but I used to hate the birthday/md wishes to their mum who isn't even aware of facebooks existence. What's wrong with phoning or visiting to say it ffs. I do however love ecards like this

Ffs cropped properly of course!

I wish there was some way to manage "shares" on FB. Most of my friends are great, and I like the personal statuses, but I'm so fed up of dull or pukey shares.

Some people who do nothing but have been hidden.

Caria, that actually made me spit out my coffee.

Threads like keep me sane. Sometimes I think it's just me.

Not a meme but another one of today's irritants (I'm having a great day, can you tell?) was a friend posting on Facebook about how she'd bought a homeless guy some lunch. That's great and more people should do that, but I couldn't help but think she posted that for all the "oh you're so amazing" comments she got in response. Cynical? MOI??

Cariad007, I think her sanctimonious attitude would make me want t give her a virtual slap. Sounds like she has quite a glee club patting her on the back

Whenever I see those inspirational memes, it always reminds me of this.

Tina Fey wrote a cracking one:
www.parents.com/blogs/goodyblog/2011/05/tina-feys-a-mothers-prayer-for-her-daughter/

I share the funny ones e.g "silence is golden . . . . Unless you have a toddler, then silence is very suspicious" but I don't share the soppy, over protective, perfect parent ones.

NBU at all, OP. I really think that for some people, FB is a mecca to celebrate with other people who just can't hug themselves hard enough.

YANBU.

This is the reason I am not on FB.

I loved the Tina Fey blog, thanks werworlf.

They remind me of this joke:
"I look after my kids"
"You're supposed to Motherfucker!"

I get quite upset at the ones with injured babies, neonates, and add amen if you want this baby to survive. What the fuck is that about? And I get so cross at the poor babies privacy being violated like that.

I also have a forever living
'Friend' , I can't defined her because it's just too funny, photos of the amazing Mother's Day lunch her dh cooked her, how spoilt she was etc etc. to be fair, I wonder if I do that shit I might also fool myself know believing my life is so ducking amazing as well...

Oh god, I'm a bit wound up now! The 'amen' pics I tely find hard though - why?