I don't know if it's a coincidence but I was just watching an instastory from a Mum blogger where she said someone had messaged her to say they were unfollowing cos she posted a photo of her child having a meltdown in a large department store. I think the gist of it was "how can you take a photo of your child when they're bawling"
It must have been in her Instastories yesterday which I didn't see, as it's not on her feed. Anyway she was very shaken by it and said it wasn't something she'd do again in light of that feedback. However she seemed to be defending her decision to take the photo rather than the fact she posted it to thousands of people.
Personally I fundamentally disagree with posting a picture of your crying daughter on social media to a hell of a lot of strangers - it's not her choice. She seems to think it helps her followers to see that her kid has tantrums?
I don't understand that logic. As if it's a public service to put a picture of your tearful child on Instagram? So other mums can feel less unique when their kid is being impossible?
My initial thoughts are: can't you just write it in the caption instead? "Here I am in X store, where Little Girl had a tantrum that lasted half an hour and we were mortified. Toddlers, am I right??!"
There was simply no need for the image, which clearly someone found distressing.
So I'm not going to name her as she was upset enough without me doing that tbh. But I find it interesting that Instagram seems to be such a visual medium that there seems to be a subconscious "pics or it didn't happen" position that Instamums fall into where it doesn't occur to them NOT to take a photo to share.