Social media and rubbish parents

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Does it annoy anyone else when fathers who don't see their kids for months and are the most least interested as can be in them , do no parenting whatsoever but yet still post all over social media pics of them acting like the doting dad and like they are present in their life and how much they love them and everyone falls for how great they are. Just needed to rant 🙄

Yep, but the people who need to know, do know the truth. That's all that really matters...

I find it's the same with those "perfect couples" who are at each other's throats most of the time. Social media isn't real.

Yeah. I deleted my fb for that very reason. I saw one of those sweet Man fell asleep with his sleeping baby pics of my DS and his Dad, except it was taken in my flat and we were the only two people there apart from DS, so a staged selfie of exhausted Daddy crashed out with his newborn.

@Anotheruser02 he sounds like my child's dad, never done one thing for him, a night feed, a bath or anything just the odd visit and selfie then social media posts . Thank god I'm not with him. And to the other posters who has replied you are both right xx

Yes my ex and his girlfriend split so she plastered our sons across her facebook proclaimed she loved all her kids the seven who had been removed from her and the two who weren't hers and she couldnt see because she is dangerous around children....

Yes it annoys me too. My friends ex actually used to use pics she'd sent him to pretend he was father of the year! Obviously she doesn't facilitate that any more.

What really annoys me though is the very low bar required to be considered a good dad. And it's women that normally support that.

Pp you are so right!
Dp ex is always hating on him but her dp plaster pictures of their ds all over his fb. How much a better daddy he is, funny thing is he had three dc himself, and doesn't see them anymore- occasionally he puts a picture up but they are old old ones unless the dc stopped ageing after 2015.
I just think it's pathetic, I fatherly put pictures up because usually I'm actually having fun with them at the farm and not using it as a photo shoot

Seems like there's a lot of them out there doing nothing for their kids but trying to make everyone believe they are.

The kids would beg dad to take them out somewhere anywhere so he would take them take photos put them back in the car and take them back he would send me the pictures as "proof"

It’s an easy way to spot someone who doesn’t actually do much parenting.

Anyone who really parent will have posts along the lines of “Decided to do some lovely baking with Finn today. We made enough mixture to make about 20 little cakes. Unfortunately Finn ate 10 cakes worth, 4 cakes worth is on the kitchen floor, 2 cakes worth is trodden into the carpet all round the house and one cakes worth is on the ceiling. But do admire our two lovely fairy cakes!” And then photo of Finn licking aforementioned cakes.

@slipperywhensparticus what an idiot, and @Mumoftwoyoungkids I know, that's what they should be doing

Better than my ex who pretends he doesn’t have kids!

@PumpkinP really? well he's even worse then

Ahh my ex does this! He visits once a month for a few hours, but posts photos I’ve sent him (or school have emailed him) and pretends he was involved in the events..... he posted a photo of Ds eating some cucumber once and his friend commented “get the boy a pizza” ex replied about how pizza was Ds favourite..... which amused me as he hates it and won’t eat anything with cheese on. Hey ho!

My ex would look odd if he did . He hasn’t seen him since he was a toddler and is now in secondary school 🤣.

Honestly though block them it’s not worth the head space . They can pretend all they like the children know.