To mute my unbearably smug new parent friends (lighthearted)

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Lighthearted but I honestly hope I was never as smug and dreadful as my friends who have just had a baby. It’s a constant stream of parenting memes and parenting advice on social media with endless #blessed posts, 30 baby pics a day and now my friend has told me she can’t relate to people without children as how could anyone understand the bond between a mother and child.

They have become unbearable smug twats - I might have to mute them until they become normal humans again! Why does this happen to usually sane lovely people?!

Aibu?!

I think most of us come across these people at some point or other. Smile and nod in person, mute on social media and duck behind the wheelie bins when you pass them in the street.

I need to meet there PFB soon but I might need several gins beforehand to cope! Baby is lovely but parents unbearable!!

I'd delete not mute.

It’s just hormones. They’ll fade in time so if otherwise good friends then just wait for it to pass.
And it might happen to you too

Yabu, they are first time parents and super proud of what they have produced, every new parent is the “first parents on earth”. Everyone does it, it’s so funny and cringey when you look back but that’s what builds the story, let them be, wait until they have more kids and can’t be bothered to do half the things they are doing now and then they will learn, like all of us had too!

Tbh I'd just be impressed/a bit envious as I struggled so much with my newborn.

The dip will come and they might need a friend to support soon.

We have one at work, she has set up a weaning specific instagram, but as shes very kind and considerate she directly emails posts to her colleagues who don’t follow the instagram page.

Shes in the only organic, wheat free etc phase. As I can be somewhat petty I sent her a photo of our day out and made sure to include the two greggs vegan sausage rolls.

I'd delete them personally. Theres smug and there's telling people they're better parents than them and making people feel crap with their unwanted parenting advice.
Like honesty just because you've been a parent for a few months/year does not make you an expert. 😂

I’m sceptical of these sorts of posts to be honest. If everything was truly hunky dory and they loved parenting so much wouldn’t they just shut up and enjoy it?!! I subset of it’s a good outlet for parents feeling overwhelmed or lovely or like they have no other purpose anymore.

I do have one of these though. I’m a nanny and she was a nanny too, her baby is a year old, and mine is due in a few weeks. She posts EVERYTHING on Facebook- child with food all over face, child in bath, child asleep, child in car seat, child looking mildly amused at farm park- you get the idea. Nothing is not documented. I was talking to her the other day and she told me I ‘simply wouldn’t’ ever be able to return to being a nanny because I’ll never be able to care for another child again after experiencing having my own I told her that financially I wouldn’t have much choice as I’m on a good wage and it doesn’t make sense sadly for me not to work but she said ‘when you get there, when you’re a mother, you’ll understand. It will help you grow in ways you’d never imagined’ whilst staring whistfully off into the middle distance.

I nearly threw my orange juice at her

*suspect and lonely

Sounds really annoying. Yanbu

Mute away.

I've got one like this on my friends list. She was sharing parenting advice and memes before the baby was even born. There were countless posts about how "the nights will be long but I'll always hold you in my arms, always be a patient parent, always put you first".

I just mute and wait until she experiences sleepless nights, toddler tantrums and the utter monotony of a kid who just does not stop bloody talking in your ear and see how sane she is then.

Hate to burst your bubbles but I’ve just blocked a friend for thirty days on FB and have to scroll through WhatsApp because of the incessant photos of her daughter accompanied by pet names. The daughter is 6. It’s been constant since birth. Every so often I need a rest from it. She’s a lovely person, particularly in real life, but my god…the photos and the pet names get a bit much sometimes.

Nature makes you falling love with your baby cos otherwise the whole business would be unbearable.
Just focus on the fact that the little darlings will be paying into the state coffers when you will be hoping for a bit of state pension.

I’m very grateful there was no social media when mine were small. The whole thing is nauseating, especially these celeb mummy blogs. Who needs some botoxed wannabe telling everyone how to be a parent?
Im now of an age where my friends are becoming grandparents and it’s nearly as bad. Why can’t we have a conversation about something else? World affairs? Books? No, it always comes back to ‘let me show you the video of Dylan at baby rugby..’. Nooo!

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Nature makes you falling love with your baby cos otherwise the whole business would be unbearable. Just focus on the fact that the little darlings will be paying into the state coffers when you will be hoping for a bit of state pension.

Nobody is saying otherwise but nature does not make you bore the pants off everyone on Facebook.

First time parents syndrome I had it bad, stayed an extra stop on the bus once talking to some poor old lady who happened to tell me what a lovely baby I had

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Yabu, they are first time parents and super proud of what they have produced, every new parent is the “first parents on earth”. Everyone does it, it’s so funny and cringey when you look back but that’s what builds the story, let them be, wait until they have more kids and can’t be bothered to do half the things they are doing now and then they will learn, like all of us had too!

Everyone does not do it, I was the last to have kids of my friends so lived through several smug PFB phases and it just made me more determined to not act like a twat!

They sound like twats.

I hope it always stays fine for them.
But it won't.
They not going to be able to coast through parenting for the next 20 odd years without some sort of problem.

If you can keep a straight face, when you have to pay homage in person, you could always ask if they've thought of writing a book and publishing it to help other parents?

Get a dpuppy and absolutely use it to join in with every milestone...
They will be livid!

Your baby will be the one walking first!
Imagine!!

There’s always been parents like these even before Facebook, much more annoying now though.
I told one particularly awful twat my ds was going to be the Swedish Ambassador once. He was only about 6.

Oh god, I’ve got one of these, and she’s family.

Since having her baby, she’s decided to try to become an Instagram influencer, and she’s constantly on stories banging on about how hard parenting is. Actually, she and her husband have even created a range of merchandise about parenthood… it’s all very cringeworthy.

Actually, when you go and pay homage, before you suggest them publishing a book, take a notepad and pen and when they say something meaningful, get the notepad out and write it down as 'you don't want to forget if you're lucky enough to have a baby yourself'.