Insta Mum 3

[Babaloo88]

Why is the other thread closed?!? I was enjoying reading through it?!!

The picture I saw was involving one child in distress with another stood on her. My first instinct would be to stop that not take a picture for my many followers to observe.

I personally find it weird you filmed a tantrum mumofkids - it would be my instinct to comfort and reassure them at the same time as picking them up and moving on. But I appreciate we are all different.

@wren42 I saw that too. Odd choices.

It's hard not to feel like there are certain vested interests to shut down discussion on these threads!

The child protection stuff seems to be a touchier subject than the disclose of advertising.

We all make choices every second of everyday but that doesn’t mean it’s the right choice. Just because you are a parent doesn’t mean that everything you decide is correct. That’s why there should be more guidelines.

@Wren42 & @jamoncrumpets

I honestly don't think the majority of the insta accounts that feature kids do show huge amounts of "staged" content.

It's their everyday lives with a # added to the pic. It's the bigger ads or sponsored pics that tend to be staged. Maybe you should actually read some of the blogs of the instamums, quite a few have covered the topic of using their kids in pics before.

Not really sure what your point is there @sofialemon

Agree, because in many cases part of doing it is showing off paragon of parenting

@neverever again it's perspective. Of course I had tried that. And I'm the end I say on the floor next to him and waited for it to pass to a point where he would let me sooth him, but 15 seconds of the store name to share with my husband well I'm happy for you to judge, it's not something that's happened again. It wasn't an entire tantrum and to be honest shifted my focus, I had been beginning to despair after about 15 minutes of trying to move him, and frustration had begun to set in. It actually took in total 40 mins to pass.

@neverever clearly you don't have a child like that one if you think it's possible to just 'comfort and reassure' during a tantrum. Yes it is with a number of my children. But that one. When he goes, he goes.

Agree with MadameG that is

Having these discussions does show the complexity of the topic though doesn’t it. Everyone’s different ideals on what’s right and wrong. There are things in place to protect children in all walks of life and I just think social media needs to address this issue aswell.

Just scrolling back to this comment:

I wouldn't put it past him to go into children's TV.

He really does fancy himself as quite the actor.

@Mumofkids

Where did I state I think it's admirable? The point I'm trying to make is you all rant on and on about certain instamums "exploiting" their kids. Yet when I point out that actually in that case huge amounts of people are "exploiting" their kids you just gloss over that.

In effect lots of celebs, anyone without private social media accounts and anyone allowing their young child to model is exploiting them.

This thread had practically died a death until the same couple of instgrammers were criticised for the same things you've all gone on and on about. Which says it all really.

@wren42 very true. And if I can be judged for a video of our child, for my husband, made in private, and shared only with him in a 'oh my goodness you'll never guess what the tantrum was about... '15 seconds (possibly less) of a store name, from a child who's head was pointing into the ground and couldn't see the phone, and he had no idea I showed his dad, I did not do it in front of him, then sharing footage of one child stood on another distressed child or freshly bathed children and shared with 820k people is surely a matter of discussion!

@sofialemon no one glossed over it, they should be subject to the same scrutiny by anyone who watches or puts that stuff out there, but as I have no idea who you are talking about how can I say more than that? I'm not going to go and look these people up and watch them just to give you more of an answer.

The difference is, Sofia, that most people on social media don't have large numbers of followers. Most people on social media aren't exposing their child in a business transaction. Most people on social media don't share their child's image for the purpose of drumming up advertising business.

Child models and performers are regulated so no exploitation happening there.

Celebrities who don't keep their children out of the public eye may or may not be exploiting their kids. One clue is to look whether they are hash tagging the shit out of their posts. Regular people with open social media accounts don't tend to need to add loads of hash tags to their snaps.

It's really not even that difficult to spot the exploited children.

So for Sofia I looked up a Binky on Instagram. Majority of feed is her posing in various outfits and positions and getting 5000-12000 likes (1.4 million followers) her stories from last 24 hours have no child in them. The photos with her baby in get around 52000 likes.
Not sure what I've learned. But if she features her child as an ad then the same child privacy issues would be applicable.

I also think you are going a bit OTT with the 'rant on and on' your posts are quite ranty everyone seems to just chat about various interesting points.

@madamegrizzly he touched on that quite recently as CBeebies was advertising, and he did quite a bit of stories on it.

I thought the CBeebies presenter stuff was tongue in cheek! I've reconsidered.

@madamegrizzly it came across (to me) he was hopeful of overwhelming support from the fandom and he probably would of! Unfortunately he had some responses suggesting he was too old!

I hope that accounts that are made up of children being run as a business do get shut down. I think that the midwife is realising that she needs to change tact and quickly! It won’t be long before people hopefully wake up and smell the coffee and realise that it’s not good.

The images of Binky's daughter on IG generally doesn't seem to be covered in tags, just the odd one. While she is featured on Binky's feed, the captions are a fairly nondescript line or two, rather than an involved narrative.

Binky's IG feed also looks entirely different to FOD's - the child clearly isn't the focus of the feed. Binky's feed is about Binky.

It’s also worth considering who’s putting the hours in to build the following. A celeb has put the hours in, whatever their status be it high or low.

Whereas these big FOD-like accounts and their £ only exist because of the children