Smuggest mum blogger post ever?

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I follow a mum blogger who lives in a very remote location in the UK. Posts have always been a bit ‘aren’t we wholesome’ but with some interesting stuff too. But just recently the smug has reached a new level! She homeschools her kids (not short of a bob or two) and posted about their day outdoors in the nice winter sunshine. She said ‘my son said, just think mum, if I went to school like everyone else I would be sat in a classroom missing this beautiful day. Isn’t he wise?’

AIBU to ask if this is the most self congratulatory post ever?!

I used to follow a mum blogger. Thought she was funny. Told it like it is, the harsh reality of parenting but with loads of humour. But still came across as just a nice average person....Until I was directed to a private closed fb group she runs. One where they supposedly have a bit of laugh at the tat people sell - either companies, charity shops or privately. Stuff where craftsmanship has been completely bypassed, or text manufacturing process has just goes completely rogue.

Anyway, the absolute pure nastiness in that group, usually intigated by her, turned me right off her. The day she joined forces with another member to take the piss out of someone's funeral 'tat', and claimed anyone who had the nerve to say it was distasteful and crass to target someone bereaved, that they were humourless cunts who could fuck off and then kicked them out of the group.

And she was constantly using the group and her page to beg for money via 'buy me a coffee'.

Horrible woman. Had to unfollow some other parent bloggers who were tagging her in their posts as well. Not as nice and average as she likes people to perceive her to be.

mathanxiety‘’s got a hugely distorted understanding of Russian adoption . FIRST: there WAS no adoption from the USSR! Only after USSR went out of business did Russia (and many other POST-Soviet countries) begin to allow international adoption. It was not ever children moving from socialist to capitalist societies. Russia overnight became capitalist (thanks to massive market penetration from UK, USA, EU, etc). I wonder if MATHANCIETY ever visited a post- Soviet orphanage? The neglect and abuse was legendary (esp Romania, a former Soviet-adjacent nation). Teenage girls kicked out into street often into sex work. Health care neglected. Shocking mortality rate of orphans. How could adoption from that situation to a loving family be construed as negative? Moreover, of the more than 60,000 Russian kids adopted to USA, only a tiny number were ‘failed’ adoptions. Etc. AND- the halt in adoption to USA was 100% political. See Magnitsky Act for more info and context. It’s Really irresponsible to make such sweeping claims based on prejudice and ignorance.

I run a family and lifestyle blog for families with only one child. There are a few pictures of my daughter on the site and even less of me (I am not one of the lucky few gorgeous influencer types). I like to think my blog is helpful. It's all about trying to build a community of one-child families, so children with no siblings can get to know each other and socialise. So there are posts aimed at kids, teens and parents.

In order to try and get some sort of income from the blog I signed up to do an online blogging course. It is a very good course, but they talk a lot about Google Updates and how Google wants genuine sites with authority. They want you to give helpful advice that is unique, not just regurgitated stuff from other sites. So I think such family lifestyle blogs as the one the OP describes may not rank as well as it has in the past.

I don't want to look at blogs where people are showing off their idyllic lifestyle. And I don't think a lot of other mums do either. I am too busy trying to create my own idyllic lifestyle.

She’s obviously raising a smug little twonk who’ll be unemployable when he comes of age.

Unfollow her. She sounds awful.

Surely a contender for Things that didn’t happen Award 😂

Meh, IDGAF about some blogger and her kids 🤷‍♀️

I couldn't care less about some blogger's child (only to say that kids shouldn't be put online) and if it annoys you to the point of making a thread on it I think you need to take a look at yourself and reconsider why you follow these people 🙄

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Your posts are hilarious, not sure whether it's intentional but I'd love to hang out with you, you sound an irreverent hoot, this one I've quoted 👆
And this one 👉 'the sort of kids it produces are always really intense and odd and don’t know how to socialise properly with others.'

So naughty, nearly spat out my tea, description reminds me of midwich cuckoos

@crowisland

You seem to be unaware of the extent of the brainwashing that went on know America wrt communism (and socialism) and the fact that it was and still is synonymous with the word Russian in the eyes of millions and millions of Americans.

This is why the phrase 'socialized medicine' struck terror into the hearts of the poorly educated when the question of funding of healthcare and health insurance reform was a hot topic. It's why the notion of 'death panels' was believable to millions of Americans.

To millions of Americans, Russia and the USSR are one and the same and the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed and the days of the CPSU are over hasn't really registered. To millions of Americans, the defense of capitalism is a holy and patriotic mission they are entrusted with.

Nobody is denying that the orphanages of Romania were appalling places, but they're not the orphanages of Russia. Romania's orphanage system developed under a very specific set of circumstances under Ceaucescu, which were different from those of Soviet Russia and post Soviet Russia too. The Russian orphanages system has major flaws, but not the flaws of the Romanian system.

It is an undeniable fact that nineteen Russian adoptees were murdered by American adoptive parents, and one child was sent back to Russia on a plane. There is a long, long list of children horrifically abused by their adoptive parents but who survived. Meanwhime afaik there was onky one case of the nirder of a Russian chimd outsode of America.

I don't know why you conflate the Romanian and Russian orphanages and I don't know why you're glossing over the murder and terrible treatment of children. Insinuating test the Russian government only acted as it dod to punish America for the Magnitsky act is yet another example of the Russia Bad, America Good narrative that informs the 'adoption as mission' crusade that ended so badly for so many children.

YYY to the nauseating phrase 'gotcha day', @Kanaloa.

I know a family who adopted from SE Asia and still celebrate their 'gotcha day'. I don't know what goes on in the minds of people like this.

😢 didn’t know people said it in real life - I’ve seen tik tok people do it with puppies, a video about the ‘gotcha day.’ Or a new car. I wonder how it feels to the child.

I was just thinking the same

I always wonder why people post this type of nonsense online.

Firstly in the OP's post, no he isn't "wise" he just can see things around him (though if it was in the holidays that is a bit weird).

Also I always question the quality of home-schooling because 1. unless the parent knows EVERY subject then I'd leave it to the experts and 2. social skills (inc. not getting what you want, getting treated badly by other students etc) can't be taught at home or in a friend type environment.

Does anyone remember the Original mummy blogger Dooce? I read her blogs many years ago when young and naive and now look back on them in horror at how much she shared (and still does!) of her children’s lives. Her eldest is now university age and I would be interested to hear her thoughts of hundreds of baby photos of her when she googles her name.

I have a 10 month old dd now and she is not shared on social media at all. Putting her out there is irreversible and I don’t want to do something I regret later on.

I can't stand all these mumfluencers and mum bloggers. Not that I have instagram or the like. Trivial bollox