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to not understand mum blogging

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 27/01/2017 11:43

I can understand why people do it, they have something to do, feel busy and hopefully get advertorials or some sort of money

Its the readers, why would you read a blog written by a bog standard Mum? isn't there anything better to read?

about life as a working Mum of 2 crazee kids, my commute and LIDL versus Waitrose, and some nicked recipes

I means that's boring right? Confused

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Katielou75 · 29/01/2017 01:20

I don't get blogs that don't have a 'point' to them (eg I absolutely 'get' homeschooling mums, or parents of children with specific needs, or blogs about hobbies etc). I just don't get the 'I'm a Mum; oh what a drag (only joking- haha) now where's the Prosecco?' type of blogs. And I don't get how blog posts about every day life feature in newspapers (according to this post there's a lot I don't get!).

fuckoffdailysnail · 29/01/2017 06:10

I can't stand any kind of blog. My friend writes a mum blog which is all about how perfect her life and family are. Her close friends(including me) know that her son is very difficult, her husband is an abusive arseholes who hits her and they are on the verge of losing the house. The blog is full of ridiculous tags such as perfecthubby supercleverboy luckiest wife etc
All a ridiculous charade

TheEagle · 29/01/2017 07:26

Agree with katielou.

I don't like mummy blogs or the hordes of snapchatters who do nothing but snap every minute of their day.

Constance Hall irritates me so much. I like Peter and Jane if I'm in the mood for it.

Sparklingbrook · 29/01/2017 08:31

I would be up for reading a cat blog.Smile Will have to see if any exist. Way more interesting than pictures of people's 'perfect' families IMO.

OvariesForgotHerPassword · 29/01/2017 14:57

I'm a "Mummy Blogger". I've gone through stages where I've thought what the hell am I doing, who's reading this? Then I get a message from someone I've helped and I carry on.

My blog is quite a niche one (unplanned pregnancy at a young age and continuing with full time uni while pregnant/with a newborn), so while my recent posts are more my rants or random stuff that I don't really expect anyone outside of other bloggers to read (when they do its a bonus :) ) I have some older content from this time that people have read and got in touch to say they found it encouraging or practically helpful, which is why I keep it going and it's why I started it in the first place. Emmas Diary was so unrelatable for me as a young student mum, I wrote my own version.

I went through a spate of doing sponsored posts and getting paid but it felt like selling my soul so I stopped. I'll do the odd review if we fancy it - we're off to review a holiday tomorrow, it's something we'll all benefit from so why not? - but for the most part I've re-evaluated where my blog was heading and gone back to basics.

Some bloggers make great money out of sponsored posts etc and all power to them, it's less annoying than MLMs. They have a readership that enjoy these posts, clearly, so that's the direction they're comfortable taking their blog in. It's not for me, though. I land somewhere in the middle of the "everything's perfect" and the "I hate my kids" blogger, so I just stick to my niche as much as possible.

Bloggers come in for a lot of contempt on here and I mean if it isn't your thing, it isn't your thing but I don't get some of the vitriol at times. People read and enjoy these blogs and for me, it's a chance to work on my writing skills and hopefully help other people too.

OvariesForgotHerPassword · 29/01/2017 14:58

And the sheer length of that makes it obvious I'm a blogger Blush

DoJo · 30/01/2017 11:57

Why they think I want to know or even care is beyond me.

Because you are on their vlog watching! If you don't care then click away, but to assume that nobody should care or even talk about things that don't interest you is a little bizarre.

Surreyblah · 30/01/2017 14:28

Yes, reading them is optional. I don't read them, prefer MN! Sometimes read and enjoy the blog of the day though.

mammyoftwo · 16/04/2017 15:36

i know this is an old post, but a topic I've thought a lot abov lately. blogs i can can cope with. it's the mummy vlogs get me.

for me it's the risks around child protection that concern me

eg a mother of daughters vlogger in Scotland who I've recently stopped watching as i can't stand the smugness any longer. back in Sept she repeatedly posted images and videos of her eldest in her school uniform!!! ie here is my young daughter and where you can find her! i just don't understand that risk taking

phone playing up, hence no capitol letters!

mammyoftwo · 19/04/2017 09:32

bump

w33zles · 19/04/2017 09:46

Peter and Jane is fake, though. Her bio reads....

"Peter and Jane and Mummy and Daddy are fictional characters, and although there may be the odd photo of the author clutching a glass of wine or a cocktail, please be aware that Peter and Jane is only very loosely based on reality, and most of it is just the product of the author's imagination. Any other characters that may appear in Peter and Jane are also 100% fictional."

w33zles · 19/04/2017 09:47

I love PTWN and Totes Inappropes, but I do wonder how difficult it must be to maintain such perfection all the time in front of a camera- like even when there's a "my OH is such a dick, and my kids are dicks" post, there's still a perfect clean and spotlessly tidy room in the background.

TiredBefuddledRose · 20/04/2017 14:41

I'd hate to be a blogger - it's alway bloggers who get yelled at for breastfeeding / told off on a plane for their kids crying / refused a table in Costa / banned from somewhere because of their pram.
There must be something unfortunateabout blogging that attracts such incidents.... couldn't possibly be because they make it up for views / hits / reads / whatever its called

misspriggy · 20/04/2017 15:46

All that faux, self-deprecation and "look at what a scummy Mummy I am" they all seems to do, gets on my tits.

user1489261248 · 20/04/2017 15:50

Not just 'mums' blogs actually. Anyone's blog is a load of shitty wanky bollocks imo.

I couldn't give a shit about anyone else's day or week or holiday or hobbies and so on and so on. And why some people think the whole world should know about their trips and their thoughts and their hobbies and so on just eludes me. Confused

FunkinEll · 20/04/2017 15:53

I'm totally with you but some of them make a bloody fortune. Free holidays, clothes, stuff. I know that one famous one's husband has recently quit works because their family are so social media successful.

misspriggy · 20/04/2017 15:54

Me neither, I avoid them, wish they'd all go away and / or made illegal and anyone writing one prosecutable under the Overt Narcissism laws that I will bring in when I'm PM.

Xmasbaby11 · 20/04/2017 15:55

I like Peter and Jane. I've never read any other decent blogs.

Pigface1 · 20/04/2017 16:08

I quite like the Unmumsy Mum but overall I find the concept of a 'mummy blog' really cringeworthy. I mean, because, there are probably only around 10 mums or so on the planet, so it's really unusual and exciting to read.

Pigface1 · 20/04/2017 16:11

'STFU Parents' is also quite an interesting read (basically about how entitled and self-important loads of parents are).

WhooooAmI24601 · 20/04/2017 16:15

I read Peter and Jane and laugh sometimes, because her sense of humour and outright madness is so eloquently put. She writes incredibly well.

Not keen on too many others, though. One friend of mine is on Facebook and is very, very funny. Bright, funny and a terribly good writer. She's been told by lots of people that she ought to blog and never has; I often wonder if she's on MN and realises that so many people hate blogs and that's why she refuses. Or if she's just one of the haters.

bibliomania · 20/04/2017 16:43

I loved Adventures of a Middle-aged Matron, although she seems to have stopped blogging since last year. I never got the impression she was monetising it though.

NameChanger22 · 20/04/2017 17:05

There's only one thing more boring than a mummy blog.

And that's a mumsnet thread about how boring mummy blogs are.

mammyoftwo · 21/04/2017 09:58

hit the nail on the head tiredbfuddled!

funkinEll i wonder if this is a wise long term plan? surely the bubble will burst in a couple of years!

mammyoftwo · 21/04/2017 10:00

also, wondering how their dc will feel whem teenagers, vlogs to potty training etc online, it's the children i feel sorry for