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Was I wrong to mention it?

6 replies

Myimmortal85 · 08/09/2020 22:14

Hello mums

I wanted to vent about something that happened today, I'm in a year 2 group chat on messenger with some other mums from my son's school, this morning I got a disturbing strange what's app message from an unknown person who had got my number somehow with a link about a guy with a bears who had done a live suicide on Tiktok, I'm sure you have all heard about it by now, but anyway I was freaked out so I blocked them, I decided to send the mums in the group chat a message about it and told them to be aware of the video going around tiktok or any other social media platform their children may have used, anyway admin of the group jumped down my throat and told me to keep it school related and that another mum had complained about me mentioning it, so it basically turned into an argument some people defending me saying I was just making them aware and a couple of others attacking me saying it was an unpleasant subject and shouldn't have been mentioned in the group, can someone tell me if I've done something wrong here? Because as far as I was concerned I was just looking out for them and making them aware so that their kids wouldn't see it, I thought a group chat full of mums would have been a good place to bring it up but apparently not, I know one or two of them have an issue with me and think that is why I was attacked and makes me wonder if it was someone else in the group who raised the issue wether they would have gotten the same treatment, did I do right or wrong? Thankyou all.

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WoodenFox · 08/09/2020 22:17

You definitely did the right thing! There's likely to be parents who aren't on social media themselves who won't have known of this or to keep an eye out.

TracieLou85 · 08/09/2020 22:26

Thankyou that's what I thought! And I had a few of the mums say thankyou for mentioning it because their kids had tiktok and they hadn't known until I had said, so why attack me how they did? Honestly don't get it, some mums from schools can be so bitchy

FingersCrossedForAllOfUs · 08/09/2020 23:09

I think you did the right thing too.

But I think you’ve had a name change fail OP.

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 08/09/2020 23:12

Some people can take warnings about things as a slight on their parenting.

You did nothing wrong, but if a similar situation arises just contact the ones you know well away from the group.

TracieLou85 · 09/09/2020 08:36

Thankyou for the reply and yes I realised oops lol

TracieLou85 · 09/09/2020 08:37

It just winds me up! A couple out of god knows how many people I've spoken to about it had to make something out of it, like what would be the difference to the school mentioning it on Facebook to me mentioning it? They need to get off their high horse tbh!

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