To detest FAMILY day out, FAMILY meal, FAMILY fun!

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Why do some people use the word "Family" to describe everyday activities?

I come across it on MN, Facebook and often irl.

I mean, the kind of families who do everything together anyway.

"Oh, we had a great family holiday". You never go on holiday separately and haven't for fifteen years.

"I made a really tasty pasta bake. #familymealtimes." As opposed to any other type of meal you ever have.

"We enjoy family day outs at the local arboretum."

Etc, etc.

Don't get me started on "Quality time".

I'm going to have some quality family time now, mumsnetting.

So glad I'm not on Facebook. I don't think I'd cope seeing this crap!

#enduringlunch
#grittingteeththroughthemummyrage
#pissingwithrainstuckinside
#littleshits

Do people actually search for people who hashtag 'making memories'?

Spare a thought for those of us who don't have our kids all the time. I'm really not a saccharine person but I do sometimes refer to family time to distinguish from grownup time (still fun but v different). The only hashtag I ever use is a tongue-in-cheek #evilmother or similar.

Well, then this thread isn't necessarily about you, Backfor.

Hubby is bathing the kids and i'm taking a shit. #familytime #feelingblessed

This isn't about people in your situation, Millionto.

It fucking hate "family time". I don't know why. I'm just hanging out. My kid is here. It's Saturday. That's all.

This type of shit is standard on my Facebook feed:

Looking forward to a weekend with my little family puttering around.

And it drives me batty!

I have just cleaned up a regurgitated mouse and a hair ball. DH has emptied the paddling pool after DS did a poop. #makingmemories #alltogetherhavingfamilytime

Maybe it's because my immediate family is just son and me. Family Time makes me think of perfect blonde people in Gap clothes in massive kitchen diners playing board games. We are not them.

It's even worse when the "family fun" is being uploaded by the Facebook middle name insert child's namemummy.

And that is after DS vomited an ice cream all over me after lunch #feelingblessedNOT

I loate the 'family anything' as a phrase. Mainly because ex uses it as a reason to cancel contact with our dc. Eg "I can't have the dc this weekend were having a family party". Or "I can't have the dc next week. We're going on a family holiday"
Not sure when our dc stopped being part of his family but it really really upsets them

In a similar vein some FB posts make me want to hurl. Just read one from a FB friend having dinner with her "beloved family". They're your kids, it's assumed that they are beloved, do you really need to post that??

I have a friend who I suspect sometimes does things/takes photos just so that he can post about it on Facebook. Facebook really brings out the worst in some people. That's why I deleted my account - I didn't like some of my friends' online personas!

Making memories is the worst because you literally can't dictate what your child will and won't remember.

Hmm what will they remember more, the expensive day out or listening to the massive row over the credit card bill?

I remember the shitty stuff far more from my childhood as it made the bigger impact

YANBU it's nauseating bollocks

Cutesy hash tags are grim. #myworld #mybabies #mummydaughtertime and one I saw the other day #thatsdarling
I mean what the fuck?

Does noone here ever "run" to the shops?

Dinosaur - that's disgusting, they are family

'Family-friendly' really annoys me for some reason I can't verbalise.
Even when MNHQ use it.

I'm not on facebook. When I looked at the pages of people I thought were sane and normal I lost all respect for them. They were all making memories and feeling blessed. Revolting.
YANBU about the 'family' thing either.

DH and I work full time, the kids have tea at nursery during the week. We have maybe one meal a week as a family, and we make a thing of it. The kids love it.

I wouldn't post about it in FB though, and certainly not with cringe-making hashtags.

YANBU I have the mother of all hangovers and this thread is not helping vom not envy.

What's with all the fucking hashtags anyway, that's what I want to know.

SIL uses about eleventy million in every FB post and it's somehow connected to instagram and possiblly twitter, I am on neither so don't really know what, maybe that's why.

Their family lives abroad so it's nice to keep in touch with them but every post has BILs twitter name in it and then #pamperedwife #darlinghubby #livingthedream #familytime #makingmemories.

I did put a comment on once about were hashtags on BOGOF where they were but she didn't comment back.