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???

SiL posts several of theses things a day. Usually the sort that slag off absent parents. She seems to neglect the fact that she cheated on and booted out her DSs father and makes contact difficult for him. It seems to be keeping up appearances to her fb audience.

She also checks in at hospitals and comments with her sons name. She doesn't even have to be at the hospital - she parks opposite of she's in town.

Hate them too...

The sanctimonious - "bought a tramp a biscuit today".

The smug - "Darling hubby, I am so blessed to have you".

The moaning - "Share this if you have some obscure and imaginary pain disorder that no one understands".

The aggressively smug - "Break my son's heart, bitch, and I will hunt you down like the momma bear that I am".

The attention seeking - " Are you my real friend? Is so, answer this self serving quiz about me".

Perhaps I'm overthinking things but all the "break my son/daughters heart and I'll hunt you down" posts are always targeted at members of the opposite sex. It never occurs to people that their child might turn out to be gay or lesbian!

Polly - I've just unfriended a woman who was constantly posting things Barack Obama said and then explaining to us how he was the head of the illuminati!

still laughing as I post this... Ha ha ha ha ah

The worst ones are the bloody chain emails I get:

You're an amazing mummy, don't let anyone tell you different. If you think I'm amazing send this back

Oh. Fuck. Off. Why do people who know me think I would like this?!

"Share this if you have some obscure and imaginary pain disorder that no one understands".

This is the one my fb friend keeps doing As well as telling us how tired she is and how busy she is doing things like walking to the local shop (once a week)

I have a FB friend who posts the most cringeworthy statuses to his wife who then replies with an equally mushy comment.

They live together. They're probably even in the same room sending it. It's meaningless when it's just for show.

I am howling! All these things have peed me off at some point. I do love ecards though.

I am that girl who cries quietly inside whilst being brave and silent.' I want to put No you fucking don't - you whinge all bloody day long - arghhhh.

This ^^^ oh so annoying

I repeat these if they mean something to me, someone close to me or I agree with them. I have plenty to say for myself and also share my own original thoughts. Facebook is for social networking. So yes YABU.

Of course YANBU. And anyone who thinks their posts aren't being judged/sniggered at by a large proportion of their friend list is seriously naive, IMO.

These drive me mad.
When I was a brand new anxious mother they just made me feel awful and guilty and question myself horribly (am I too selfish to be a mum? Does wanting to shit on my own make me a bad person?). It seriously made my baby blues worse. One of my friends was ALWAYS posting pictures of flowers with stuff about how "real moms" never wanted to go out, we're utter martyrs etc. Said friend is a good mum but not woo in the slightest in real life, and often leaves her daughter safe with nana and grandad so she can have a meal or drink on a Friday night (and good on her) ... bit the constant memes made me feel so inadequate for wanting to do anything other than wear dd on my sling and do worthy baby activities.
Until I learned you could block all posts from the meme generating pages, without blocking the friend. PHEW.

I also had to leave 2 sling pages and 1 breastfeeding page because ^there was fuck all info on feeding or wearing, just long threads of smug bitches women sagging of other parents with comments such as "if you don't want to b near ur kids Don have any!! At least we LUV ares hun"
Boak.
I now stick with Bad as Breastfeed er, freedom to feed, Lansinoh and nct.
All my woo needs fulfilled without the judgemental comment threads.

YANBU.

This thread is now my happy place.

As always, those who talk the loudest has the least to say.

Oh my God, YES to the hideous Minion ones that appear on my newsfeed EVERY DAY!!!!!!

I also totally judge those ridiculous people who post massive statuses informing everyone that cancer/Alzheimer's/homelessness etc are actually really bad things (duh?) BUT 99% OF YOU WONT HAVE THE GUTS TO RE-POST THIS.

Um, no, I don't have the inclination to behave like a massive dick-head.

I also unfriended someone today who referred to their upcoming 'holibobs' in their status. No friend of mine uses the word 'holibobs'. Sorry Sarah, we're through.

I ignore them all. Best way

There's is a girl I know who posts constantly about being being broke and not having enough money to pay her rent and can anyone lend her £300...... posted from her iPad. I used to feel really bad for her but it's like every month now like clockwork she posts these statuses.

"Polly - I've just unfriended a woman who was constantly posting things Barack Obama said and then explaining to us how he was the head of the illuminati!"

You unfriended her?! She sounds awesome!

The fun I could have with such a friend after a Friday evening in the pub ...

Oh! Oh! I remembered another one, that I haven't seen for a while.
"I'm cleaning up my friends list, please comment 'yes please' if you don't want me to delete you". The best part is where maybe only one person comments and all the rest of their friends apparently don't care about being deleted...

The "legal statement" about FB and rights to photos that does the rounds every couple of months too! Does anyone still think it's a real thing?

The "legal statement" about FB and rights to photos that does the rounds every couple of months too! Does anyone still think it's a real thing?

You're excused if you've just joined FB. Anyone else goes on my idiot list.

Also on the idiot list: anyone who posts a new way doctors have found to treat yourself for a cardiac arrest (by coughing or some such crap). As a doctor, let me reassure the FB-using public that - in the event of medics discovering a way to raise yourself from the dead - we won't rely on FB status updates to publicise it

That's another thing I don't like Anyone. A cousin of mine has just survived her second bout of cancer, treated by radio- and chemotherapy, yet is always sharing memes and articles from dodgy naturopathic sites claiming that all you need to do to cure cancer is eat watermelon or something like that. She's been through a shitty time so it's understandable that she'd have wanted a gentler treatment but whoever are behind those sites are downright irresponsible.

Anyone, fellow nurses I know post that 'cough to treat cardiac arrest' shit pretty regularly. It worries me that they do.

random I assume they are confusing it with cardioverting yourself from an SVT by coughing which is certainly possible - I have done it myself. But I wasn't dead at the time

Most of these idiotic health memes contain a grain of confused truth, which makes them even more dangerous.

And this bloody one. When I need to pee, I go to the toilet.