Photos of kids covered in food - yuck!

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AIBU to feel a little bit disgusted when I see photos of my friends kids on Facebook where they're absolutely covered in food, and the parents clearly think it's funny/adorable?

So many photos of young children with tomato sauces all over their faces and in their hair, or those cake-smash photo shoots where the babies are covered in chocolate cake. Am I the only person who doesn't think it's cute?!

I just googled cake smash it is a real waste of cake is this what all the cool 1 year olds are doing these days

We did BLW and DD was therefore covered in food on a regular basis. Yes, we did take some photos of her covered in pasta sauce but I think that is part of being a parent. We never wasted food, we always gave her a small helping and stopped when she played instead of ate.

Cake smash - ridicolous idea. DD got 1/4 of a normal slice of cake with cream for her 1st birthday and yes, a lot ended in her hair but a whole cake? Sorry, that's waste.

Fine to take photos but not to post them on FB/insist on showing people - unless it's your child, most people find it a bit gross.

Someone on my Facebook has their child holding a whole burger in their mouth -handsfree - as their profile picture. They are in a restaurant on the photo. I just don't get why anyone would highlight such bad table manners? I'd be telling them to eat it properly and not play with their food, not stopping to take a picture and finding it funny. Nothing as strange as folk.

I'm mostly not bothered (although wouldn't want to touch the kids in real life until they were cleaned up ) but I have seen a facebook photo with someone's kids eating ice creams that I found very queasy-inducing.

Kids are older (7 and 8 maybe) and the photo is zoomed right in on their oped-mouthed smiling faces, complete with ice-cream in mouths, around mouths, on tongues, and slimy ice-creamy salivary stands stretching from top teeth to bottom teeth.

I guess the parent thinks they look cute/funny but I REALLY don't like seeing it!

Wow, some people are quite sensitive. I've never shared a picture of my dc covered in food, although it happens on a regular basis (she's a toddler - totally normal) On her 1st birthday she tried chocolate cake for the first time and it was all over her face with a big cheesy grin, i took pictures, I didn't share them on Facebook but if I did I would never have thought there are women taking offence to it. Why would you find that gross, irritating and why would it get your back up? A picture of a toddler smearing his own shit on himself, yes now that would be gross and I would wonder why people do this and I would probably start a Mumsnet thread on it. Food, a meal that got out of hand that covered your little one, that's slightly amusing because it's just such a mess, no.

I feel like people take things way too seriously, some of the posts on here are slightly odd.

I find it sooo gross. Especially if it's yoghurt or mashed banana. Why do people do it??!!

It's the kids I feel sorry for - those photos are going to be kicking around the web for a longggg time...

It's vile but then some parents seem to think everyone is desperate to see constant pictures of their kids.

I agree. It's gross. Not charming, not sweet just bleugh. I don't know anyone who did a cake smash my friends have more class.

It's amusing to the parents. Random people have no interest in seeing a toddler covered in food, it is pretty minging. So no, it's not slightly amusing.
At best it's of no interest to others and at worse it grosses people out.

One of the many reasons I don't have children is that it makes me feel sick to see things like that

And why assume everyone posting is a woman? Do women have a special ability to find that sort of thing charming ?

FIL had a special interest in taking photos of dd when she had food all over her as a baby. It'd be smeared on her face and he'd run off an get the camera.It was strange. I do like that Smurf meme though

I'm a photographer and I really don't understand cake smash shoots! I just don't see why people would pay good money to ruin a perfectly good cake then let their child smear it all over themselves. Then there's all that sugar! No thanks give me real life any day :)

I find them all absolutely repulsive. Yanbu.

I'm so glad it's not just me. It turns my stomach to see photos of kids with food smeared all over their faces. Yuck!

The comments from 'Lolhuns' on this article on the Mumsnet Facebook page are pretty good value, if you can be bothered to read them, by the way.

I hate tongue out photos...on adults mainly.

It's reached the point where I just can't bear to look.
The one that keeps cropping up...Daniela Westbrook
Makes me feel sick

I hate this too, some parents let their kids eat in a yucky way and they think it's adorable. It is not. It's annoying. When I see kids with food all over them I feel a very strong urge to clean them up with a big wet towel, then tell the parents they are muppets. Worse still, all the kids I know who were allowed to eat like this as toddlers, still ate like this years later. Chocolate smeared up to their eyebrows, dried tomato sauce up to the elbows, sticky hands and all.

I adore pictures of my DS enjoying food. Some of them are very messy indeed. I don't share pics of him on social media though.

I'm a big manners snob. When we babysit our nephew we always have to tell him to use his knife and fork not his fingers...he's 8!!!!!!!!! He doesn't hold cutlery right, gets up and down from the table, wipes his hands on his clothes etc etc. I find it embarrassing when we're out. Maybe I'm just old fashioned.

And don't get me started on eating with mouth open / talking with mouth full. My OH didn't have the best manners when we met so I guess PIL didn't see it as a biggy so didn't pass on to OH and SIL

I'll add a YANBU- i was just complaining about this to my DH recently. My SIL puts constant photos of her kids eating/covered in food on FB and tags me in them, just incase i scroll by without noticing them! Bleurgh!

Weaning messy babies are adorable!!! Covered in avocado or carrot purée it's a lovely memory to keep and even share with loved ones but the cake smash I'll never understand. I feel with the pearls or bow ties and a huge expensive cake away to be ruined distasteful and wasteful

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Seriously - I can't go near babies for fear that they might puke. So some doting parent posts a pic of their offspring covered in food... that person is going to be unfriended quickly.

Why would you want to subject your child to finding that pic in ten years' time or whatever? How potentially humiliating, especially if you have put it all over Facebook!