To secretly judge those who share stupid parenting memes?

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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???

Revolting. If you need a meme to announce how you're feeling, you've got bigger issues than Facebook can deal with.

I get really pissed of when people share the depression/anxiety awareness ones. Especially when I have seen those very people do "the sceptical look and eye roll" when actual sufferers have taken time off work with the condition. Fucking hypocrites.

Urgh, I've had to unfollow my (otherwise very lovely) SIL for constantly posting the 'share this with ten other people or some kid will get cancer' ones.

On the other hand...

Or when they just 'check in' at a hospital with no explanation apart from 'child's name :( '. I mean, if it's that serious then you wouldn't bother Facebooking at all. If you can manage to put half an update then go on to explain instead of just putting out the 'who cares about me?' bait first.

• CANT even...sod you sausage fingers..

MagicMojito one of the worst I've seen said something along the lines of "Characteristics of strong-minded people". One of them was "we don't let ourselves get depressed". Yes, because fuck knows that if you're depressed you should just be a bit more strong-minded!

I judge anyone who posts copy and paste crap about love/friendship/bravery/being there/cancer/99% won't post this. Except the one about dragons. It's lazy, annoying and stupid. But easy enough to roll your eyes at and ignore.

I do have a friend who keeps posting stuff about how you just need a positive mental attitude to get through tough times. Granted, she's going through a nasty divorce and these idea probably help her. But I get so angry with the idea that people who flounder under adversity are just not trying hard enough to be positive.

the ones I don't like are those openly racist, but I am supporting old soldiers so I'm really good ones... you know - "our old soldiers get tuppence ha'penny from this government despite fighting for our freedoms, those immigrants get £26,000 just for coming here and sitting on their arses all day...."

and the "I'd rather be alone than be surrounded by people who pretend to care" - you talkin' 'bout me ?

Not a stupid meme (although I hate those too) but I really dislike it when people post pics of their ill child, or check in at a&e.

Which child enjoys having a camera shoved in their face while they're ill? And if you have time to check in on Facebook at a&e then it's hardly an emergency or debilitating accident is it?

And when people go on about how gorgeous / beautiful / sexy someone looks when it is a particularly unflattering picture, and they just really aren't looking gorgeous etc. Does that make the photo person feel better or worse?

Besta, a friend of a friend has a young disabled DS with incontinence issues. She regularly posts statuses - and I'm not kidding, I wish I was - saying things like 'So DS shit the bed again last nite, 2 much washin 2 do now lolx'. That poor kid.

Cringetastic is my new favourite word.

I'm just off to tell EVERYONE on Facebook about it......

Half of them have spelling/grammatical errors too - so

no - NO, I will not repost crappy quotes that you have not even bothered to check... and YES I will judge you by the grammar standard of the things which you choose to quote, as well as their content.

Anothergirls that's it - I feel sorry for the kids who aren't able to say no.

My MIL posted this (I'm married to her son) ... I'd done nothing! So I said nothing - just DELETE! Did she not realise I'd see it? That's how FB works! Still makes me laugh.

My sil is forever posting this shite, how much her sons mean to her, how she'd do anything for them...yet the first thing she did after throwing her eldest out of home was post on facebook that she'd done it, and tagged him in the status. Epic parenting.

And someone I vaguely know only posts these things, nothing else. The other day it was something about marriage, along with a sentence that made me and - 'I believed in my vows and entered in to marriage for life. Sadly my husband didn't and left me in xxx-xx.' wtf??? This woman is in her fifties, old enough to know better!

What about this one?

I like this one.

I like this one

MaliceInWinterWonderland can you explain in what way having children using a sperm donor means not having their interests at heart?

Between Dolce & Gabanna's womb envy and seeing that comment, today's not been a good day to be a "synthetic" parent.

Yanbu

I have unfollowed so many people from my facebook my newsfeed only has about 6 people regularly come up.

I see stuff like the sickly meme's, share if you love your mum/hate cancer etc and immediately put them in the "hard of thinking" column on my spreadsheet.

Laura I think Malice meant her sister has children with men she's only in casual relationships with so is using sperm donor in that sense. Rather that criticising people who have actually made the decision to use sperm donors or have Ivf etc.

Can see why you read it as you have, especially off the back of the Steffani Gabbana (or is it Dolce?) comments.

I'm ashamed to say I thought you pronounced meme as 'meh-mee' not 'meem'. I can't unlearn it

Jessica78, I remember my Dad telling me that quote once and he was talking about how my Mum looked after her elderly parents whereas my Mum's two brothers did not bother to, could it be that your MIL was referring to her own parents and unhelpful brothers?