Smuggest mum blogger post ever?

[Yippitydoodah]

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?!

@SallyAny I’m old too and don’t understand the point of “mummy bloggers”. Have people really got so little interest in their own lives that they’re interested in how others live and worse, want to be like them? I can’t think of anything worse, let alone calling their poor children strange names!

Don't forget she is probably focussing on the positives for her posts, too - we also home educate and we also enjoyed and made the most of being able to play in the snow all morning when it first arrived rather than having to wait until after school - but unless she also posts e.g.: "staying up until midnight trying to get the printer to work" and "the inside of my car after forest school #muddypuddles" then there is a certain social media selectivity there (which shouldn't really be a shock to anyone). :-)

Mum blogger and home schooling. Both make me cringe.

“Mum I’ve met a new boy he’s lovely”
”that’s wonderful dear, what’s he like”
”well he was homeschooled until the age of 16”

trust.your.gut.

Thank you so much for sharing Finn's Montessori nursery!

Finn’s Nursery is pure gold. I also noticed that in the most recent thread the husband is learning to sew:

This year, for my wife’s birthday, I sewed her a custom-made Studio Tunic in a bark-green Nomad Linen with contrasting burnt orange top stitching.

Oh good god 🤣 I know this is old but wow. I wonder how her plans all worked out in reality, not in online fantasy land!

Sad? It's downright sinister. It's a world I know nothing about, thanks for the insight Criss.

I love Ballerbusters on IG. The guy sniffs out all the 'nontrepreneurs' like a bloodhound. Does stuff like run numberplates to show they hired a Porsche for the day etc.

Some of the guys he's exposed were doing stuff like driving around and changing clothes several times to give the impression the pics were taken on different days, to avoid looking like they just rented a car for a day.

OMG Finn's nursery! 😂The Elimination Communication area. And the Care of Self area. And the chair that is "ergonomically designed for the tiniest of sitters." I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so special. 😂 Also imagining Finn pulling all the pictures off the wall as soon as he was old enough, since they are carefully placed at "child-height." I'd love to see a before and after comparison.

This mumblog stuff is a revelation.
Cheers Bertie it's like something out of Pseud's Corner:

I'm Meg McElwee, a multi-passionate artist dividing my creative energy between fiber, paint, parenting, and the written word.

Multi-passionate. 👀 😂 Multi-hilarious.

Do you have a link? I can’t find them on IG 😩

Why follow these people - they know nothing more than you?

it's fascinatingly solipsistic & ridiculous. And Finn's room is dangerously non-childproofed. That owl balanced precariously above the potty for example, oh sorry I mean the Elimination Communication area.
She's even got a glass Tilley lamp, placed at just the right height to be pulled down onto Finn's inquisitive little head when he starts toddling.

Finn must be a great hulking teenager by now
Or still laid out in a Tasteful Ornament-induced coma ...

I can't find it now either. Was defo there a few months back.

Here's an overview.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/style/baller-busters-online-scams.amp.html

Yawn.

Snark is hilarious.

sew unlimited- just looked her up on Instagram she’s still going 🤣

Am so, so, disappointed that they ended up choosing Baker-May instead of Hicks.

Exactly what I thought. English 'lessons' not going well, it seems.

I'd like to gently tease you for posting about sad people posting about smug people posting crap, but it's a meta too far & I got confused. Is it Thursday yet?

Just took a look at the Saccone Jolys family mentioned here and I feel so strange about it. Seems like a very awkward and worrying family, to put it mildly.

this is brilliant thanks for sharing
I particularly liked 'Finn will use this bed for naps (if he so desires)'

www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40858289.html

Some acknowledgement, buried under a lot of weasel words, from Saccone himself owning that it's not ok to use kids for attention & profit. Which he follows up by saying they'll be able to do their OWN blogs for attention & proifit when older. It's like an undocumented life isn't something that he can conceptualise.

I love coming across American bloggers just for the names they give their children. I came across one recently whose brood of children were Rayne, Rivers, Rawlings, Bridge, Wales, Saylor,, Blu, Tag and Layke.

Jesus, that was tedious.
Poor Finn.