Insta Mum 3

[Babaloo88]

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

To be fair, they look like they're laughing and playing in that picture Wren.

That’s why I don’t follow FoD. I don’t like his manner with the twins.

I thought the Boden shopping list was an exercise is asking for stuff.

In his caption @Anewhope he actually says that they are fighting. Either way regardless of this picture I just don’t like it.

I don’t think the little girl on the floor is laughing!

And the worst are the photos of him with his hands high in the air with a toddler sitting in the palm of his hand or him lying on the floor legs in the air with a toddler sitting on the soles of his feet. Potential for serious head injury.

There are loads of questionable photos on his feed though, like the one where he has his legs in the air and one twin is balanced on his feet and the other is sat on his chest and he's (obviously) got his phone in one hand.

I wonder if he's making hay while the sun shines because in a couple of years, the twins will be older and who's going to be interested in his feed then?

X post with dilly.

He says she's laughing but if you look at her face it really doesn't look like it. Either way it's just a money shot for his own account and that's weird.

Well my mistake if I’ve got it wrong but to me it looks like she is distressed and it’s so many other posts which I disagree with not just this one. This is just one that made go what on earth am I doing following this guy!

.. and the photo of one of the twins sitting in a dolls pram that the the other twin has half upturned against the wall - looks like the pram will topple over and she’ll end up banging her head off the floor and where is the supervising parent - filming it instead of intervening!

Or maybe he staged it - I can almost hear Fod saying to the girls - twin 1, you hop into the pram, I’ll Tip it over and twin 2, you stand on your toes clutching the handlebar - it’ll make a great shot. Hold on tight, stay sitting in the pram, just one more shot!

The middle daughter frequently looks uncomfortable in photos, too. Not crying or about to give herself a head injury, but awkward and sullen. And now I think about it, lots of children on Instagram look awkward or cross.

It's a really good argument for them surely not consenting to another photo.

Yep doesn't look like a laugh I've ever seen ...

You do get the feeling with MoD and FoD that they sense the game is up and are determined to reel the money in while they can/however they can. Articles like Hadley Freeman's will become more mainstream, the public are definitely getting weary of this conspicuous greed, and the very real issues of thriving by making other people feel bad leaves a nasty taste.

On you tube I see vloggers all the time filming a "haul" with their crying child or baby in the background...they apologise for the crying child in the background - then just film through it and carry on! I'm clearly very precious with mine as I couldn't ever do that, just all seems so wrong.

I feel a bit weird about yoga girl's kid. She's got her own account with nearly 100k followers.
Also I watched her stories and she does so many in a day. The phone is always there pointing at her little girl's face.
In 10-15 years we'll start seeing the repercussions of all this I guess. There's 1) the actual not interacting with your kids coz you're filming them and 2) them realising their face, name, details all over the internet without them wanting it.
I'm guilty enough for spending too much time on my phone. God we all do it right? But I'm not trying to make money from them, and I doubt I'm on it as much as these influencers are.

My son (5) tells me off if I'm on it and not talking to him and sometimes he tells me he doesn't want his photo taken. And I don't do Instagram with my kids.

It's quite scary really. It's an unknown what all this social media is doing to young kids. Signs aren't great going on the rise in mental health issues at the moment though.

How interesting he has deleted it! Just shows that we aren’t the only ones that think it’s wrong clearly!

The child was standing on the landing with a lot of sleeping bag under her feet, trailing behind her? My children are older and I didn't use sleeping bags, so I just thought how unsafe and what a trip hazard it looked - especially near the top of a large staircase.

@flyingbird To be fair to FOD, I'm not sure he actually put the mattress over their head. I have the same cot as them and I have to say there's something about It. The kids love playing under the mattress. I often find my little one in the morning having thrown all his covers and mattress out, just laying on the base. I think there's something fascinating with about the base, children love. In the spirit of keeping this thread alive, let's all think before we type and be mindful of the sort of things that can get this thread shut down.

Actually, I think it's still there.

That's really not a cheerful child in the background.

@ionlyspeakthetruth I would say that in the twins case they are too big/old for these cots. If your child removes covers and the mattress either out of the cot or gets under it, that's not really very safe. He's also frequently filmed them climbing out and into each other's cots and I clearly remember being told by the health visitor when my son started doing this (at 10 months) this was not safe and I should move him to a bed. (Easier said than done with a 10 month old. We ended up with a mattress on the floor and a stair gate on the door for a while. Before he could manage a bed) and I know it's parent choice and they can do what they want but they've been filming them do this for months. Perhaps everyone here is a bit safety conscious but if you are going to make your livelihood, your offspring and the storyline is twins run amok around hapless father, then at some point these dubious videos may be discussed.
And we all know the extra traffic to check will make him run his hands with glee for 💰💰

I’ve actually looked at this now and they are both definitely under the mattress at one point and both seem to be crying etc in the background. I still don’t understand the logic behind it all. If this is all about parenting and showing the real life side to it I still don’t get it. I have children alot older than these are now and at no point would any of what is going on happened in my house. I wouldn’t let my child play under a mattress I wouldn’t film my child in distress wanting me, to then ignore them and continue filming I also wouldn’t put my finger in my child’s mouth and then laugh as she bit me. Now yes we all have our own parenting techniques but I honestly don’t get the parents who find all this funny or amusing. I don’t find a distressed child funny or am I the strange one?

Mumofkids I agree, they are way too old for those cots if they’re climbing out. But if John Lewis haven’t yet reached out to offer them free toddler beds what are they meant to do?!