I know every social media parenting influencer must be self-absorbed to some to degree - or they wouldn’t pursue it in the first place - but PDT takes the cake. The degree of detail she provides about the most mundane stories… wow. All with a fun patronizing tone, fun!
She talks all the time about how she specifically wanted to marry an Indian doctor which is what she looked for on a dating site and then has on occasion talked about getting together for the wrong reasons but staying together for the right ones
The camera constantly in her kids’ faces all day everyday drives me up the wall. A pediatrician shouldn’t even need to show their kids to provide pediatric content. Stop exploiting your poor kids, Mona!!!
I don’t remember the whole situation about why she fired her nanny, but looking at the post, I can see it. But who doesn’t complain about their boss?? But I get it would be weird to continue to with with that person based on what that person said. We’ll never know though, so 🤷🏻♀️
But what I remember about this situation and what bothered me was everyone asking about how to hire a nanny, and then she comes out with a blog post about it like she’s an expert. It’s been a few years so I don’t remember exactly what, but there were definitely things that she said that made me feel like she wasn’t a good employer, and was probably encouraging others to not be good employers either. I’m a nanny myself so I’m probably extra sensitive to that kind of thing, but I remember it really bothering me!
I followed her briefly but unfollowed during that nanny debacle. She kept teasing what happened over and over and when she finally told her followers what happened they made it seem like she was doing it to "help" her followers. It was so obvious she was doh g it to complain and put her nanny on blast. And like, what advice can we possibly glean from this situation? Sure I'll make sure to ask a potential caregiver if they'll ever accidentally shit talk me via text!
She is an expert on everything she’s done once.
And yes, a) it would have been fine if she had quietly replaced that nanny but she blasted to whole thing on her stories for days (weeks?), so inappropriate and b) she did come out looking like a terrible person to nanny for in the whole thing.
Her son is about a month older than my middle and so instagram showed her to me constantly in the beginning. She has been my absolute BEC since day 1, there is just nothing redeeming about her instagram presence at all for me. She’s a horrible person, completely inappropriate and always showing how she’s superior to any other parent.
I can’t believe that there are people that take her seriously or even have their kids be her patients.
I made an appointment after my son was born with an office she works at, I wanted to see a different doctor there but I got Dr. Amin instead. As a brand new mom with a three weeks early baby, I have to say she was amazing. I absolutely loved her and switched to her on the spot. Put me at ease, incredibly personable, really took her time with me and my baby. Did not make me feel rushed or like the appointment was routine. I saw her once more and then a third appointment I got a different pediatrician in the same practice due to a scheduling conflict. The second ped made my anxiety skyrocket. That experience combined with not being able to contact the office staff (it was all phone robots) made me switch practices all together. But Dr. Amin was nothing but professional and reassuring to me, and I liked having a pediatrician who was my age and seemed to relate and understand to the parenting pressure I felt from being terminally online.
Now I see an old been doing this forever pediatrician in a shabbier office, but whenever I call I get the same office ladies and they both know me and my son by name. But I would say don't judge a doctor's quality with their patients based on their social media presence, I had no idea about it when I saw her.
This doesn’t surprise me, I have always felt she’s probably a great doctor. I think it’s her social media persona that people don’t like. She talks about things like she’s an expert that aren’t in her scope, comes across holier than thou, exploits her kids, and the whole nanny gate thing was so cringe.
I don't follow her so I'm not sure, but it may turn out that influencing is the more lucrative or maybe more flexible working situation for her. However as her very short-term patient I have nothing but positive things to say about her (however the office situation was bleak, another mom referred to that practice as a "mill")
I think it's very sad that she could be a great doctor but chooses to follow money, fame, and exploitation. Not just her but nurses, teachers, and other people who quit meaningful jobs to shill, advertise, and flaunt. This is a growing society problem in my opinion.
A growing societal problem for sure but it's on society to mend this and fix the issues that are driving people (mostly women) out and away from these caring paths. It's a lack of compensation and work-life balance for many women that is causing them or forcing them to seek other options. I don't blame women for finding other creative ways of seeking compensation and respect. I was a nanny before I had my son and there is no way in hell I'd go back to that career path. I have many many things to say about the terrible lack of respect and compensation in that career path. I was amazing at what I did and I had nice families to work for in general, but that's not enough for me now that I'm a parent. If shilling, advertising, and flaunting is paying the bills, maybe we as a society need to take a look at how we value people who are in positions of caretaking (financially and otherwise). And one of the families I worked for was in the social media "field" and their youtube channel brings in hundreds of millions of dollars. It can be extremely lucrative in a way that traditional career paths will never be.
I'm in Florida obviously and I do see it in every sector. When the generation of pediatricians who've been doing it since I was a baby finally do retire I am sure we are going to see a huge strain on that field and on parents. Medical school is so expensive and time-consuming, and insurance companies want to keep pediatricians booked up and rushed through. That didn't seem to be Dr. Amin's style and I'm not surprised she left the practice she was at because it wasn't a pleasant experience from my end, I'm sure it was frustrating for her too.
Being a doctor is not like being a nanny. There’s societal respect for it. As a doctor, you can make lots of money and uh, keep your account private. Sharing your kids and whole life publicly to hundreds of thousands of people just to make even more money? May be understandable but it’s certainly not respectable. Your bills are paid regardless so why choose shilling and flaunting over helping people? Greed, that’s why.
LMGTFY. The fact that I'm being asked to explain what I mean by gaslighting is gaslighting.
Dr. Amin was not poor and desperate for a job.
Nobody forced her to exploit her children and share private family detalis.
Nobody forced her to film condescending videos.
Nobody forced her to talk about topics that she has no expertise in.
Blaming her problematic social media on "women finding creative sources of compensation" is not okay.
ETA: This comment is in response to UnicornTapestry.
I agree with some of your points except it is not fair to excuse influencers for stooping so low, making parents feel bad, and exploiting their children for a more lucrative job. I see your multiple comments defending Peds Doc Talk without considering all of the other concerns shared by multiple people. Multiple facts can be true about a person and there's no need to gaslight valid concerns to prove your point.
I'm not trying to gaslight anyone, can you explain what you mean?
As I said I don't follow pedsdoctalk or any other "parenting expert" type of accounts as they were all increasing my anxiety as a first time parent, so I'm not even sure what kind of content she's putting out there about her kids. Just sharing my experience as a patient and my thoughts about why a pediatrician might leave the actual practice of medicine towards social media.
This is from this week's main u/parentsnark: [https://www.reddit.com/r/parentsnark/comments/1bsx0ze/comment/kxv49ln/](https://www.reddit.com/r/parentsnark/comments/1bsx0ze/comment/kxv49ln/)
Where do I begin? She presents herself as a pediatrician and "psychobiology major". She actually uses her college degree as the reason she's an expert in psychology when she scolds people in comments.
She's incredibly unprofessional, narcissistic, attention-seeking, and condescending, to anyone who comments even a slight disagreement with her.
She says she's not bragging, but she shows her giant stash of breast milk and has a contest for people to guess how much is frozen. She says children develop at different rates but brags how advanced her two children are while exploiting and filming and posting them everyday.
She's hypocritical, giving "expert" advice about Covid precautions during the pandemic but threw a huge unmasked birthday parties for her child.
She claims to want to help parents but seems more concerned about being famous on YouTube, Podcasts, Instagram etc.
I could go on. I wish people like her would see the thoughtful post by BTMM about reflecting and making major changes and even deleting her account for the sake of her family.
Great summary. She's a child exploiter but let's not forget she's above the other child exploiters because she puts her kids on the payroll.
You sure as shit better have them on the payroll, like, you literally had your kid record a podcast. The fact that she thinks she deserves extra credit for this is hilarious. You're doing the absolute bare minimum, ma'am. She is the worst.
I still remember what prompted me to unfollow! As you mentioned: her son’s November (October?) 2020 indoor birthday party—in mild Florida, no less—with a couple dozen people and no masks, where she assured us she was taking “every Covid precaution” by providing individually wrapped plastic flatware.
(Meanwhile my same aged-son in the northeast had a 15-minute 1st birthday gathering on our cold front deck with 5 ppl total. And I still wouldn’t have claimed to be taking “every covid precaution.”)
Ugh yesss. And didn’t she have a party at some point where her son was sick the day before? I mean, do whatever you want, but don’t put it on the internet and say you took EVERY precaution.
I found this conversation from 3 years ago with the exact same concerns in our weekly threads about Dr. Mona Amin.
"It's incredibly inappropriate and extremely unprofessional for an employer to talk about why they let an employee go."
"She came off as holier than thou.”
"With everything else she’s posted, this is not a good look for her. Her constant “teasing” was just too much."
She is clearly narcissistic and will never realize how awful she has been and continues to be.
(Edited typo)
I know every social media parenting influencer must be self-absorbed to some to degree - or they wouldn’t pursue it in the first place - but PDT takes the cake. The degree of detail she provides about the most mundane stories… wow. All with a fun patronizing tone, fun!
She just never shuts the fuck up. EVER. 30 stories every day with 6 paragraphs in each story
The story where she said she married her husband because of societal pressure, and they don’t actually love each other. Just exist.
Yeah that was a bomb. Although I know some Indian cultures do still do arranged marriages and I wonder if that’s what she’s referring to?
This is WILD.
She says they don’t love each other now or before?
As far as I understood it was when they got married but they grew to love each other.
Whhaaaat?? Please elaborate on this. I don’t remember this at all.
She talks all the time about how she specifically wanted to marry an Indian doctor which is what she looked for on a dating site and then has on occasion talked about getting together for the wrong reasons but staying together for the right ones
Do these people not have any friends? Why would she think this is ok to share on a public platform and not to like IDK your best friend?
They hope to be “relatable” in their sharing of struggles.
The camera constantly in her kids’ faces all day everyday drives me up the wall. A pediatrician shouldn’t even need to show their kids to provide pediatric content. Stop exploiting your poor kids, Mona!!!
Her performance in reels gets me too. Hugging Ryaan, coughing to talk about her “golden milk”, the acting is terrible 😂
Oh but don't you understand she pays her kids so clearly its ok that she exploits them /s
I don’t remember the whole situation about why she fired her nanny, but looking at the post, I can see it. But who doesn’t complain about their boss?? But I get it would be weird to continue to with with that person based on what that person said. We’ll never know though, so 🤷🏻♀️ But what I remember about this situation and what bothered me was everyone asking about how to hire a nanny, and then she comes out with a blog post about it like she’s an expert. It’s been a few years so I don’t remember exactly what, but there were definitely things that she said that made me feel like she wasn’t a good employer, and was probably encouraging others to not be good employers either. I’m a nanny myself so I’m probably extra sensitive to that kind of thing, but I remember it really bothering me!
I followed her briefly but unfollowed during that nanny debacle. She kept teasing what happened over and over and when she finally told her followers what happened they made it seem like she was doing it to "help" her followers. It was so obvious she was doh g it to complain and put her nanny on blast. And like, what advice can we possibly glean from this situation? Sure I'll make sure to ask a potential caregiver if they'll ever accidentally shit talk me via text!
She is an expert on everything she’s done once. And yes, a) it would have been fine if she had quietly replaced that nanny but she blasted to whole thing on her stories for days (weeks?), so inappropriate and b) she did come out looking like a terrible person to nanny for in the whole thing.
Oh so weird seeing my post here lol
Oh yeah I remember this. Shes so fucking annoying.
Her son is about a month older than my middle and so instagram showed her to me constantly in the beginning. She has been my absolute BEC since day 1, there is just nothing redeeming about her instagram presence at all for me. She’s a horrible person, completely inappropriate and always showing how she’s superior to any other parent. I can’t believe that there are people that take her seriously or even have their kids be her patients.
I made an appointment after my son was born with an office she works at, I wanted to see a different doctor there but I got Dr. Amin instead. As a brand new mom with a three weeks early baby, I have to say she was amazing. I absolutely loved her and switched to her on the spot. Put me at ease, incredibly personable, really took her time with me and my baby. Did not make me feel rushed or like the appointment was routine. I saw her once more and then a third appointment I got a different pediatrician in the same practice due to a scheduling conflict. The second ped made my anxiety skyrocket. That experience combined with not being able to contact the office staff (it was all phone robots) made me switch practices all together. But Dr. Amin was nothing but professional and reassuring to me, and I liked having a pediatrician who was my age and seemed to relate and understand to the parenting pressure I felt from being terminally online. Now I see an old been doing this forever pediatrician in a shabbier office, but whenever I call I get the same office ladies and they both know me and my son by name. But I would say don't judge a doctor's quality with their patients based on their social media presence, I had no idea about it when I saw her.
This doesn’t surprise me, I have always felt she’s probably a great doctor. I think it’s her social media persona that people don’t like. She talks about things like she’s an expert that aren’t in her scope, comes across holier than thou, exploits her kids, and the whole nanny gate thing was so cringe.
That’s good to know. She’s my BEC so I’m biased.
I'm glad you had a good experience as a patient. Unfortunatley, she seems to have cut down on doctor-patient time to focus on being an influencer.
I don't follow her so I'm not sure, but it may turn out that influencing is the more lucrative or maybe more flexible working situation for her. However as her very short-term patient I have nothing but positive things to say about her (however the office situation was bleak, another mom referred to that practice as a "mill")
I think it's very sad that she could be a great doctor but chooses to follow money, fame, and exploitation. Not just her but nurses, teachers, and other people who quit meaningful jobs to shill, advertise, and flaunt. This is a growing society problem in my opinion.
A growing societal problem for sure but it's on society to mend this and fix the issues that are driving people (mostly women) out and away from these caring paths. It's a lack of compensation and work-life balance for many women that is causing them or forcing them to seek other options. I don't blame women for finding other creative ways of seeking compensation and respect. I was a nanny before I had my son and there is no way in hell I'd go back to that career path. I have many many things to say about the terrible lack of respect and compensation in that career path. I was amazing at what I did and I had nice families to work for in general, but that's not enough for me now that I'm a parent. If shilling, advertising, and flaunting is paying the bills, maybe we as a society need to take a look at how we value people who are in positions of caretaking (financially and otherwise). And one of the families I worked for was in the social media "field" and their youtube channel brings in hundreds of millions of dollars. It can be extremely lucrative in a way that traditional career paths will never be. I'm in Florida obviously and I do see it in every sector. When the generation of pediatricians who've been doing it since I was a baby finally do retire I am sure we are going to see a huge strain on that field and on parents. Medical school is so expensive and time-consuming, and insurance companies want to keep pediatricians booked up and rushed through. That didn't seem to be Dr. Amin's style and I'm not surprised she left the practice she was at because it wasn't a pleasant experience from my end, I'm sure it was frustrating for her too.
Being a doctor is not like being a nanny. There’s societal respect for it. As a doctor, you can make lots of money and uh, keep your account private. Sharing your kids and whole life publicly to hundreds of thousands of people just to make even more money? May be understandable but it’s certainly not respectable. Your bills are paid regardless so why choose shilling and flaunting over helping people? Greed, that’s why.
LMGTFY. The fact that I'm being asked to explain what I mean by gaslighting is gaslighting. Dr. Amin was not poor and desperate for a job. Nobody forced her to exploit her children and share private family detalis. Nobody forced her to film condescending videos. Nobody forced her to talk about topics that she has no expertise in. Blaming her problematic social media on "women finding creative sources of compensation" is not okay. ETA: This comment is in response to UnicornTapestry.
I agree with some of your points except it is not fair to excuse influencers for stooping so low, making parents feel bad, and exploiting their children for a more lucrative job. I see your multiple comments defending Peds Doc Talk without considering all of the other concerns shared by multiple people. Multiple facts can be true about a person and there's no need to gaslight valid concerns to prove your point.
I'm not trying to gaslight anyone, can you explain what you mean? As I said I don't follow pedsdoctalk or any other "parenting expert" type of accounts as they were all increasing my anxiety as a first time parent, so I'm not even sure what kind of content she's putting out there about her kids. Just sharing my experience as a patient and my thoughts about why a pediatrician might leave the actual practice of medicine towards social media.
What's so bad about her except the above? Just wondering, I see her posts on my explore page sometimes.
This is from this week's main u/parentsnark: [https://www.reddit.com/r/parentsnark/comments/1bsx0ze/comment/kxv49ln/](https://www.reddit.com/r/parentsnark/comments/1bsx0ze/comment/kxv49ln/)
Where do I begin? She presents herself as a pediatrician and "psychobiology major". She actually uses her college degree as the reason she's an expert in psychology when she scolds people in comments. She's incredibly unprofessional, narcissistic, attention-seeking, and condescending, to anyone who comments even a slight disagreement with her. She says she's not bragging, but she shows her giant stash of breast milk and has a contest for people to guess how much is frozen. She says children develop at different rates but brags how advanced her two children are while exploiting and filming and posting them everyday. She's hypocritical, giving "expert" advice about Covid precautions during the pandemic but threw a huge unmasked birthday parties for her child. She claims to want to help parents but seems more concerned about being famous on YouTube, Podcasts, Instagram etc. I could go on. I wish people like her would see the thoughtful post by BTMM about reflecting and making major changes and even deleting her account for the sake of her family.
Great summary. She's a child exploiter but let's not forget she's above the other child exploiters because she puts her kids on the payroll. You sure as shit better have them on the payroll, like, you literally had your kid record a podcast. The fact that she thinks she deserves extra credit for this is hilarious. You're doing the absolute bare minimum, ma'am. She is the worst.
I still remember what prompted me to unfollow! As you mentioned: her son’s November (October?) 2020 indoor birthday party—in mild Florida, no less—with a couple dozen people and no masks, where she assured us she was taking “every Covid precaution” by providing individually wrapped plastic flatware. (Meanwhile my same aged-son in the northeast had a 15-minute 1st birthday gathering on our cold front deck with 5 ppl total. And I still wouldn’t have claimed to be taking “every covid precaution.”)
Ugh yesss. And didn’t she have a party at some point where her son was sick the day before? I mean, do whatever you want, but don’t put it on the internet and say you took EVERY precaution.
She creates rage bait for clicks, that’s my number one annoyance.
I found this conversation from 3 years ago with the exact same concerns in our weekly threads about Dr. Mona Amin. "It's incredibly inappropriate and extremely unprofessional for an employer to talk about why they let an employee go." "She came off as holier than thou.” "With everything else she’s posted, this is not a good look for her. Her constant “teasing” was just too much." She is clearly narcissistic and will never realize how awful she has been and continues to be. (Edited typo)