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to find these posts on Facebook supremely annoying?

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flappp · 19/09/2023 13:47

I’m not a huge Facebook user (although I was back in the late 2000s when it was new) but since having children I do use it occasionally and am a member of a few local parent ‘days out’ and ‘things to do’ groups, for local activities, sharing events etc. They can be really helpful.

But literally every time someone posts something like ‘I’m looking for something to do this weekend with my 1yo, no more than an hour from My City’, someone else will comment ‘Toddlers don’t need big days out, try the local park, feeding the ducks, baking, or a walk in the woods’ etc. It’s got worse now Halloween activities are advertised, especially if the OP mentions having very young children - ‘they don’t notice the where they are at that age, mine were happy just splashing in puddles and making mud pies.’

Are these people seriously suggesting the OP wouldn’t have ever taken her kid for a walk in the park or the local woods, and has probably done all that many many times but fancies something new? That the OP will be grateful for the advice to ‘just go feed the ducks’? It’s so patronising and gets right on my nerves*

*I’m stuck at home with a stinkin’ cold today which may account for my grumpiness

OP posts:
minipeony · 19/09/2023 19:53

Some people do need to hear it though. They spend so long trying to fill their Instagram feed they forget to enjoy life around them.

Floogal · 19/09/2023 20:20

Kind of agree. I live in a seaside town with lovely surrounding countryside etc. Whenever people ask what to do with their kids or someone comments that there really isn't much for kids to do in town, they get shot down with how lucky we are to have a beach, countryside and parks. Parks/beach/countryside are all well and good IF the weather is nice. Which, judging by most summers, is not very often.

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