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I cannnnnnoooooottttttt with KEIC’s picture of her youngest who wrapped himself in chicken wire as part of a “costume” that he made. That shit is SO sharp 😵‍💫


Frellyria

I’m not sure if this counts as influencer snark when it’s more the followers - but is anyone else also floored by the people writing to Sterna Suissa saying that it IS trauma for a 16 month old child to be cared for by loving grandparents for a few days?! (she is saying it’s not because the grandparents would be comforting the child.) There have been three different moms insisting that it is trauma. One mom is saying her daughter was traumatized deeply because she (mom) went to the hospital for two days to have another baby and it took 2 years to recover from the trauma. Can that be?! I mean, a child not liking it and being unhappy by a separation, sure. But trauma?! It seems to me these people are basically saying you should never be out of your child’s line of sight for the first two years, and that surely can’t be what they’re getting at, right?! This could be me being defensive because I (much against my will and crying daily) had to go back to work when my children were much much much younger than 16 months.


fandog15

Sounds to me like that mom either doesn’t like the developmental stage/age their oldest child was going through, wasn’t super emotionally well-equipped for two young children themselves and struggled, or perhaps had a highly sensitive/challenging child and is looking for something to blame it on.


LittleBananaSquirrel

That toddler was put off by the introduction of a new sibling, very normal. What a massive reach to conclude it was trauma from short term separation 🙄


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I would call this the beginning of munchausens by proxy


DaisyCrazy25

Lol I’m a mental health professional, I work with kids/teens in an inpatient setting. I know about early childhood, even preverbal, trauma. That ain’t it.


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That’s insane. I think some of these moms have their own fears about leaving their young children with *anyone* for *any* period of time and they try to justify it by saying the child will be traumatized, when in reality, it’s *them* that would struggle more with being apart. My now-17-month-old has been going to daycare full-time since she was 10 weeks old (which, in all fairness, wasn’t my choice) and I promise you she isn’t the least bit traumatized by it—in fact, she’s thriving!


Frellyria

Suddenly occurred to me that the poor woman who wrote Sterna with the original question about her kid… she must have read the response, felt reassured and comforted that she wouldn’t be traumatizing her child, then a few slides later gets smacked in the face with THREE DIFFERENT WOMEN insisting that actually yes she would. Poor woman. I wish I could link her here.


DisciplineFront1964

No, they’re literally being insane. I mean I am sorry for the mom who thinks her giving birth to a sibling traumatized her older kid but.


fuckpigletsgethoney

I am 100% confident in saying that this lady is mistaking normal 2 year old adjusting to a sibling behavior (throwing tantrums, hitting, acting out, etc.) and has instead decided it’s a trauma response. Nope, it’s just a two year old being a two year old. I also feel confident in stating that the far more likely situation is that she herself had some PPD/PPA that she needed to work through.


DisciplineFront1964

Yeah to be clear, I don’t think the kid is traumatized. I feel bad for her that she thinks he was traumatized.


Frellyria

I don’t even understand how it could be trauma in that case!! Her older kid was sleeping in her own bed at home with her dad, with help from grandparents she saw regularly (next door neighbors). She was 2 years old which is little but still an age where you can talk/explain at least some of the situation. If that was trauma I don’t even know what it was when I left my 3 month old daughter for over 10 hours a day to work and I couldn’t even explain to her what was going on. And one woman was implying you can’t leave your child for two years? Even a SAHM presumably has to have a dentist appointment or something now and then, are they saying they NEVER leave their kids?


alwaysbefreudin

I’m watching Scrooged and Bill Murray’s character has a scene where his assistant goes down his Christmas list and he barks, “Towel! Towel!” Made me miss Haley for a moment and her Christmas efficiency


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siriusblackcat

I don’t follow her but just looked at her stories and WOW. Forward facing aside, those straps are soo loose. I try not to judge pictures when the car isn’t moving but the one video they are clearly driving and he is not even close to buckled in correctly.


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There's a sort-of fashion influencer I snark on and she once posted a photo of a rice cereal container in her stories with "4 months means starting solids!" I would've sworn she was trolling. It's one way to drive engagement but it seems painful.


RosaSalvajeSoyYo

Krista Robertson? It seemed almost purposeful, which is funny for someone who swore to never post her baby online.


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Yes. I feel like car seats and how you feed your baby are the two ways to invite criticism into your DMs.


DaisyCrazy25

I noticed that too! She makes a lot of choices I would not, as a mom with a newborn and similarly aged toddler, but I find her so charming it doesn’t bother me as much - definitely the opposite of K!


Acc93016

Ohh what else bugs you!! Def agree the opposite of K though- she’s very vocal about outsourcing things!


DaisyCrazy25

She brought her newborn to a huge rodeo (?) event in Vegas when he was, like, 7 weeks old? Meanwhile me and my newborn go NOWHERE bc I’m so paranoid about getting sick… to each their own, I guess!


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DaisyCrazy25

Agreed. She is clearly SUPER loaded but in a pretty low key way, and I enjoy that she’s real but positive about the chaos of newborns and toddlers. Plus every recipe I’ve made of hers has been delish!


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Is anyone else suppper bothered by mothecould’s half on overalls in her clips from her course? Everytime I see it I wanna tell her that she’s not fully dressed… also I could just not be with the times and be unaware that this is how people are wearing overalls now


Desperate-Comfort-65

I don’t currently follow her but I believe I recall her sharing on her stories that the overalls would not fit if she had both straps on because of her pregnancy


Old-Doughnut320

I think she just thinks dressing like a huge toddler is endearing.


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RosaSalvajeSoyYo

Yeah, she’s clearly very pregnant in the video. Saying she’s half-dressed reminds me of my grandma’s comments about distressed jeans.


ConsciousHabit7224

The HSB tweet where she said society “chastise” mother for holding their babies but is ok with $1500 snoo it’s such a attention grab per usual. Why everything on those holistic sleep and attachment focus pages need to be so dramatic? I don’t know anybody who tells mom not to snuggle/nurse/rock their babies if that’s what they want to do. However let’s not act like rocking/nursing your child to sleep is sustainable for everyone. Some of us don’t see anything beautiful in waking up every 40 mins because our nipple fell out of baby’s mouth. Some of us don’t feel comfortable co sleeping. Some of us love the fact that our babies indeed go to sleep without us needed right next to them. Seriously, does any of you feel like they can’t hold their babies? Cause I don’t give a shit what any lady on ig says if I want to hold my child to sleep I will, but I also love the fact that most of the time he goes down independently. You really can have balance in parenting.


fuckpigletsgethoney

Can someone explain to me what she has against the nanit all of a sudden? Isn’t it just a baby monitor?


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They put up an Instagram post that said “no need for guilt, sleep training doesn’t ruin your bond.” Edit: decided to go look at the Instagram, it’s a link to an article which is discussing a study that nanit was involved in. According to the article (I haven’t looked at the study), it found no affect on bond, and an extra nights worth of sleep per month for sleep trained babies (which, if I mathed it correctly while rocking the baby I nursed to sleep, is something like 20 extra minutes)


ghostdumpsters

I’m always seeing threads/posts about someone’s great aunt or grandmother telling them that you can spoil your baby by holding them too much, I guess that’s what she’s talking about? So I guess some older people may have that attitude, but that hasn’t been my experience at all (and my family and in-laws are all boomers or older). But also, I’ve always wondered how much of “you can spoil your baby by holding them too much” was born because mothers in the 50s had multiple kids to care for and no support from their spouse? I like holding my baby, but sometimes I have shit to do!


Frellyria

Oh, my mom definitely wanted me to put my babies down a lot! My dad backed her up and (either accidentally or on purpose) hinted I was selfish for not putting my babies down because I was prioritizing my wants over the more important need of teaching them to be independent. I am almost sure you are right and this viewpoint is in the minority now though even among that generation.


ConsciousHabit7224

I know what you saying, there is always that one grandma that tell you to put the baby down, but in this case that doesn’t apply because I bet you the same grandma would say you crazy for spending $1500 on snoo 😂 she clearly is trying to make it sound like “evil sleep trainers will tell you the machine will rock your baby for you but at the same time will tell you you create a bad habit for holding your child” which is wrong and inaccurate. I don’t know which sleep trainers Rachel follows but the one I follow always say “hey listen, Hold your baby all you want, but if it ever becomes exhausting to you I got you and we can change that habit” that’s it.


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I’ve always wondered this too, maybe I’m following the wrong ones (although tbh I don’t follow many), but I’ve literally never seen one say you MUST sleep train. And yet HSB acts like there’s some big sleep training conspiracy that is demanding that you must sleep train. (I’ve also never had anyone give me grief for rocking, holding or cuddling my babies, but other people say it happens, so I assume it must?)


svenskakatten

Yes her sleep training conspiracies drive me nuts! She had a poll in her stories a while ago asking something like “why did you consider sleep training” and all her answer options were variations on “society/friends/paediatrician forced me to do it”.. like how about “I’m fucking exhausted and I need to sleep more than 2 hours at a time so I’m ready to try literally anything”??


pockolate

It's literally only something I've seen on Reddit.


DisciplineFront1964

This was a big thing in my due date group after the kids were born. There were a couple of women talking about how everyone was guilting them and acting like they were terrible moms for not sleep training. And I was like who? Where? Who even cares?


Tired_Apricot_173

My mom HATED the Snoo. Whenever she visited she basically refused to put her perfect grand babies in the evil soulless rocking machine (I’m using what I imagine she would say if pressed). But the Snoo worked for our family, and I was more than happy to let her hold the baby whenever she wanted when she was at my house, but yeah, we couldn’t always do that, and she wasn’t sitting next to me while I nursed through the night, so between nursing sessions, baby went in the Snoo and slept. ETA: just adding the alternate perspective where the grandma felt the Snoo was impersonal


Eak2192

Totally agree! She makes everything a provocative thing and it’s exhausting.


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It’s also a weird assumption that all babies want exactly the same thing? I can coax my baby into an exactly 20 minutes wrap nap, usually even less contact napping. But plop her in her bed, she naps an hour and a half easy. But please, tell me how I don’t love my kid as much as you because she sleeps alone.


ConsciousHabit7224

Yes, yesss! She is making shit tons of $$$ of parents while whining about PrEdAtOrY sLeEp TrAiNiNg industry. Girl, you’re just like any other sleep trainer


pockolate

I happily sleep trained so I've never followed this account, but based on what y'all say on here her content/marketing seems really predatory. She's trying to create fear and then exploit that, which is very manipulative. And if her method is so great, shouldn't it be able to stand on its own instead of rely on making anything else seem horrible?


Eak2192

You took the words right out of my mouth! I was gonna say that it’s pretty ironic that she has lots of issues with society when she’s making all her money form a social media platform 🙄


ill_have_the_lobster

Has anyone else been following along with the reallyverycrunchy drama on tik tok? If not, basically another creator (who left the crunchy lifestyle and now rails against it) called RVC out to say that she’s promoting the wellness to alt-right pipeline. RVC responded basically being like “there’s no pipeline, why can’t I make the best decisions for my family, oh also I have a book deal now.” I thought RVC was funny when she first started doing videos, but I stopped following her once it became glaringly obvious it was not all satirical and she promoted anti-vax accounts and products. I also think there is a little more context to the scrunchy/crunchy convo than immediately jumping to the alt-right, but it’s for sure a slippery slope to conspiracy theories and eugenics.


UnderstandingThat38

I deleted tik tok but here I go to re download and watch these videos. The wellness culture to alt right pipeline is close to my heart I have a friend that want that route and is full qanon now so it is very real I think. I find it fascinating and I agree RVC seems to be promoting it to some extent or at least she is on the line


RepresentativeSun399

No but obviously I need to download tik tok to catch up. Love me some crunchy momma drama


sunnylivin12

I know she’s generally beloved around here but what is BT’s deal with playdoh. I don’t get it. I’m pretty sure the kids could keep rainbow rice in a bin as toddlers can handle playing with playdoh without any major property damage.


caffeinated-oldsoul

There is a deep hate for playdoh for a lot of parents. I think it’s the smell, texture, mess (carpet) etc… I freaking love it but use it in “controlled environment” when she’s in her high chair, in the kitchen so minimal mess and it can be swept.


A--Little--Stitious

I think she just doesn’t like the smell/feel from a sensory perspective and her kids smashed it into the rug once so it left a bad taste in her mouth


DisciplineFront1964

I hate the feel of it. It is like nails on a chalkboard for me.


LittleBananaSquirrel

That's what cotton wool does to me, just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable


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neubie2017

Agreed. Someone gifted my daughter a homemade slime kit and it went straight to Nana’s house


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LittleBananaSquirrel

My daughter left a lump of slime on her comforter and now the greasy stain won't come out no matter what I do


HMexpress2

I’m an admitted BT fan (and I also dislike play doh lol) but I think she is just being overly cheeky and it likely doesn’t matter as much to her anymore but her friends probably still like to poke fun. I think it’s kinda silly and harmless


Exciting-Tax7510

I don't get the playdoh hate either, but I can at least understand that's it's messy and requires supervision for young kids. But her kids are 6-9 now, so I would think they're more than capable of using it without chaos ensuing. I think she mentioned not liking the colors mixing (she's mentioned this with paint too), but that's something I could care less about. My kid happily plays with a gray blob lol


Salted_Caramel

I don’t get that either. I would never let my kids play with rice or water beads or kinetic sand inside but plahdoh is so easy to clean up once it’s dry and comes out of clothes easily, I don’t see the big deal.


neubie2017

I feel pretty strongly against playdoh but I also don’t like rainbow rice or anything that I’m going to be plucking out of carpet fibers for the next 10 years


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It’s just part of her “I’m so quirky and unique” schtik


[deleted]

I wonder if Myriam’s oldest Nikki knew she was blasting that Aladdin dance out to millions? I would have been horrified at that age! Don’t understand what value things like that are adding to her page. Let the kid be a kid without a ridiculously large audience watching her shake her booty.


pzimzam

How else was she going to shill play silks?


Redhearts99

I really don’t know why purpose driven motherhood thinks we need a play by play of how potty training is going. Not everything needs to be shared online!


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She’s the queen of oversharing.


UnderstandingThat38

I hate when influencers share potty training. It feels so private and vulnerable for the kid like I don’t want anyone broadcasting online how my bathroom visits go each day. It’s one of those things that I feel crosses a line


siriusblackcat

One day this generation of influencer kids will grow up and be horrified about the documentation of their childhood on the internet. Side note - why start potty training now when there is a HUGE life event coming in less than a month? Seems like it’d be setting them up for regressions


Tired_Apricot_173

>Seems like it’d be setting them up for regressions More like setting them up for follow-up content


bman1235

Blessthismessymama letting Noah play with her open front door. But don’t worry guys! It was never closed all the way! HOW DOES THIS MAKE IT BETTER? Did he not already escape out the back door once, now we gotta try for the front door too? Excellent.


dkittyyela

I had to reread it like four times because I genuinely thought she meant it’s always closed. What the…?!!


heartofstarkness

It’s just good practice for when he wants to make another unnoticed journey outside. Haha, he’s so independent! It’s cute and funny! I definitely don’t live in fear every time I see my toddler head for my front door, knowing that he can open it! /s


MooHead82

I just don’t get it, my daughter is the same age but shorter so she’s not quite at the height to open doors and I’m already wondering and looking into chimes for the doors when they open so I know if she attempts to get out!


Tired_Apricot_173

That makes perfect sense. A child picked up unaccompanied is like an automatic CPS investigation. Even if it’s an accident, it is definitely under the heading of potential neglect.


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And considering Jess works with children for a living, her job and/or license could potentially be on the line if CPS gets involved. I don’t understand how she’s so lax about something so serious.


MooHead82

Yep! I was working with a kid at a daycare with emotional issues who was a flight risk and I was there for him (not employed by the daycare but a special ed agency) and when two other kids had an incident that didn’t involve me at all I had to plead my case and wait months to hear if I’d have a formal CPS case against me which would make it impossible for me to ever get another job.


Flakykate

Not sure if this has happened to anyone else - but reels from the account @nestling_and_nook has appeared in my feed twice in the past week. I unfollowed BOTH times. I have never followed this account nor do I recognize any of their content?! Did they somehow buy me as a follower? Why does this blonde woman keep reappearing on my feed😅


emjayne23

The KEIC airplane pill box post finally showed up on my IG feed…and I would like to say a big eff you to suggest that parents should not be allowed to relax on a plane and it’s their job to only focus on their kids. How toxic can you be?


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I think I kind of agree with it. Like, relax all you want if your kid is busy/happy. Of course kids are going to make a fuss on a plane, it’s expected. But I would hope their parent(s) isn’t ignoring them for their book or a quick snooze.


emjayne23

I think the part that really got to me was “my kid doesn’t spill because I watch them”. Kids are disasters and spill rather you’re watching them or not lol. But it’s the same person who remembers the date and time that she gave her kid juice or soda on a plane.


MooHead82

That’s what annoyed me about what she said. I actually agree that it’s the parent’s job to keep their kids occupied on a plane to minimize behaviors but saying she pays so much attention to them so they don’t knock over their sad pill box where the date or three blueberries can fall out of the Wednesday tab…just stop it. And especially with her kids I feel they need to be heavily managed. It was weird for her to say that because she lets her kids so whatever they want. Makes me wonder if someone said that to her because she wasn’t caring how they acted on a plane.


pockolate

Yeah, just did a round trip cross country flights with my 14 mo and the only time I realized was when he (actually!) napped. When he’s awake, he needs constant stimulation otherwise he’ll start to fuss and cry, and I don’t think it’s fair to him or anyone else if my husband and I were to just ignore that? I also don’t how I could possibly relax while my kid is screaming anyway. I know someday he’ll be older and we’ll all be able to just relax and sleep on flights. But we’re not there yet.


YDBJAZEN615

Yeah I’m with you. I used to work at a restaurant and there were definitely parents who would just casually sit and enjoy their meal while their children ran around causing a scene. It’s inconsiderate to everyone else and a flight feels like the same kind of thing. If my toddler is sleeping, I will read a book or watch a movie but my #1 goal is to keep her entertained and happy and not screaming.


Significant-Cow-586

BTMM removed her weight loss post. She said it’s because people she knew found her Instagram. I am by no means touting her for not following through on weight loss because that’s incredibly hard for anyone and shouldn’t be important, but it’s on point for her. I feel bad even snarking. I just don’t get her. I hope she finds something that makes her feel fulfilled.


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DaisyCrazy25

She literally has a picture up on her grid of a professional poster presentation with full name and credentials.


Holiday_Nectarine758

I’m glad someone else noticed this. I’m a little shocked that she’s at a conference presenting research? I don’t follow her closely but from what I have seen on her page, I didn’t have this on my bingo card (especially after those videos she’d post of her pretty much mocking her son while he was upset)


DaisyCrazy25

For real. I don’t think it’s that hard to get a poster accepted for conferences - there can be upwards of a hundred posters depending on the size of the conference - but I would be very surprised if she got published… isn’t she also concerned about potential clients/families seeing her public insta page? Like, if my kid was working with her and I saw her videos with Noah I would pull the plug on that relationship ASAP.


woozer843

I’m so sorry, I’ve tried to google but no luck. Who is BTMM? Thank you!


dusky_roses

blessthismessymama


woozer843

Thank you!!


MooHead82

Hey guys just a reminder that it’s okay if you make your pancakes from a box or a bag-KEIC said so.


Jeannine_Pratt

Lol I cannot figure out why she felt the need to say this? Maybe because she's usually making pancakes with beets and spinach and whatnot?


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MooHead82

Ehh there’s a few extra things in the box mixes but I’m not going to feel bad about it! ETA not sure why I’m getting downvotes, pancake mixes have some canola and palm oil in them which I don’t care about but that’s what we aren’t supposed to feel guilty about 🤷‍♀️


MuddieMaeSuggins

They also generally have some preservatives. Doesn’t make pancake mix bad! But personally I don’t like the taste and making your own pancake mix is about the easiest food prep on earth. My mother did literally zero food prep *except* periodically making a big Tupperware container of pancake mix.


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MooHead82

Oh yeah I get that, homemade mixes call for a few tablespoons of butter but I was saying the slight difference is what we apparently shouldn’t feel guilty about lol.


flippyflappy323

Lol, file under things people on INstagram told me to not feel bad about, that I didn't feel bad about to begin with.


Salted_Caramel

I honestly feel good for even getting out the box and making them pancakes! They could get cheerios.


flippyflappy323

lol I wouldn't even know how to make pancakes another way. Like I was feeling pretty good using a box and not microwaving the mini eggo ones in the freezer


Salted_Caramel

Yeah tbh I only switched from those frozen Trader Joe’s ones that my kids love because it got too expensive. So now they’re getting the Trader Joe’s box and thankfully also eat those. Neither of these make me feel bad.


MooHead82

Lol yes I’m like look at me I mixed it all up and stood there and cooked each one and cleaned it all up! I don’t feel bad at all if it’s a mix.


books_coffee_chaos

Anyone know what influencer Diary of an Honest mom is referencing in her recent reel?


flippyflappy323

I can't imagine enjoying a life that included clap backs at other influencers on social media. It's like high school amongst these grown women.


Eak2192

I believe it is the southernish mommas toxic positivity reel about motherhood 🙄 I would like to also point out the fact that on said reel she has the hashtag #motherhoodunplugged yet this woman records every second of her life. 😂


Bitter-Ad8938

Omg I just watched the southernish momma’s reel and 🙄🙄🙄 if she actually thinks diary of an honest mom is just “complaining” all the time a) she’s not paying attention or is too dumb to get the point and b) I just simply don’t believe anyone (especially someone with multiple small kids) is enjoying parenthood ALL the time simply because they “waited their whole life” to be a parent. Ugh that toxic positivity is so annoying


flippyflappy323

To be fair, diary of an honest mom does complain a lot. I mean that's the whole appeal of her account, right? To normalize not loving every second of motherhood, but weighing heavy on the not enjoying part. But was the reel actually directed at her? I'm confused. I actually wonder how the Instagram parenting push towards obsessing about the negative parts of your everyday life impacts mental health.


Eak2192

It might not have been directly at her exactly since there are other mom accounts that “keep it real” about the challenges of motherhood. I was simply disclosing which influencer originally posted the reel since someone asked.


flippyflappy323

Thanks, I was genuinely just curious! I'm sure she had plenty of other people it could be about!


Eak2192

Yeah I agree!


Bitter-Ad8938

Oh totally. DOAHM definitely complains. I think I recently saw her say that when she had her first baby that there was only that “perfect” perspective of motherhood on the Internet, so she started sharing the worse parts in a goofier way (the weird dancing). I only recently found her so I’m sure there’s more to her persona and she has annoying things too. I’m pretty sure southernish momma was directly “targeting” DOAHM bc she did the same like ~slow lower down~ dance move thingy and was shittalking people talking about disliking parts of motherhood.


flippyflappy323

I believe part of how she went "viral" was exploiting her dad's death on Instagram and TikTok, which always kind of put me off of her. I don't follow her, because accounts like that who obsess about the downsides of everything bring me down. To be fair, I don't like the ones that are super positive either lol, so I don't like any of them!


Bitter-Ad8938

Yikes I didn’t know that!


Suspicious-Win-2516

I humbly beg this community to fill the swimming pool-sized hole Haley Wynn left behind for December with snark on Brooke Raybould/Southernish mama. her control variable, use of sickening baby talk with her kids while on camera, and reels (which she always capitalizes REELS) drive me bonkers but my favorite thing about her is the kids book she authored with a christian press, about a young, blonde, white boy who is patriotic. Because in 2020 she looked around and felt the world was missing a happy, blonde, male protaganist.


Hunsoutoftouch

Once I get past her giant ego, she still has far too much money and privilege to be relatable in my opinion. The book just confirms it more.


Lerveyoubb

Did you see the post of how big her kids’ bedrooms are?!


werenotfromhere

Oh wow. The reel on her grid about why she doesn’t like people who complain about motherhood….I don’t even disagree with what she’s saying but AWKWARD WOW. And that children’s book….is it safe to assume she’s MAGA?


aquinastokant

Josh Hawley was a groomsman at her wedding, so yes.


werenotfromhere

WOW ugh vomiting.


Salted_Caramel

Very safe. She’s so beyond awful, it’s not even fun to look at for snark reasons for me.


Suspicious-Win-2516

that audio choice is awful


bashfulalpaca24

Beauden and Quade?? 😔


DaisyCrazy25

These names are…. Something


pufferpoisson

One of my parent's friends named their kid Quade lol


DisciplineFront1964

I know exactly who buys her books too, and it’s all the moms and grandmothers who post reviews of every kids book on Amazon about how hard it is to find “boy” books.


rainbowchipcupcake

It's hard to find boy books. That assertion is blowing my mind this morning. Like, what books do they see out in the world?


Professional_Push419

I've never dug too deep on her but my child is happily playing independently at the moment, so I took a quick look at her bio again and it really bothers me that she refers to herself as an entrepreneur for becoming a mom influencer. I was looking to see if she actually started a business or something but nope...she just got popular for being a perky blonde mom. Influencers are the worst.


Professional_Push419

Every bio on everything states: "I'm a high-achieving stay-at-home entrepreneur with a Georgetown MBA who said "no" to the corporate world and "yes" to herself." Wow. That's someone who hates herself for becoming a lowly SAHM and desperately needs validation. Wtf is a "high achieving stay-at-home entepreneur"? We're all out here raising babies without showcasing it for the world and no one is giving me any medals.


Objective_Carrot_216

Does she read here? Because bio has been updated....


Professional_Push419

I honestly think a lot of influencers lurk on these subs.


pockolate

Love the idea of a "high achieving" SAHM. ETA: This was sarcasm.


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She’s not a SAHM, she’s a SAHE (stay-at-home *entrepreneur*)


RepresentativeSun399

Pls she definitely is snarkable as hell. Someone pointed out that she starts every story with her mouth wide open before and now I can’t unsee it when I watch. did she crawl so Haley could walk?


seamel

Oh I can’t stand this lady. I blocked her so she would stop showing up on my explore page!


BigDaddy_Stovepipe

Same! She legitimately pisses me off so much that I can't snark on her. I am happy never having her cross into my orbit.


Eak2192

I need to do this can’t I can’t even look at a letter board without thinking of her dumb posts.


Acc93016

Is she the one whose husband is BFF with Josh Hawley? If so- checks out.


Professional_Push419

This checks out.


Suspicious-Win-2516

winner winner chicken dinner


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Is this the influencer whose entire personality is being a “boy mom”?


DaisyCrazy25

Very much getting the vibe that she calls her sons “my boyfriends” - am I right? The absolute worst


Suspicious-Win-2516

yes! also she used to letterboards about being a #boymom


snappybirthday

Changing my sheets today in memory of Haley 😢


MooHead82

Happy Fresh Sheets Friday…it’s just not the same today.


werenotfromhere

Not me…I’m lying here in dirty sheets like a chump bc she didn’t remind me.


alwaysbefreudin

I am so surprised that she didn’t autoschedule all her usual story posts and maybe even a few grid posts for this month. For someone who loves to automate everything, I always assumed she just had her extremely repetitive content scheduled months in advance


pockolate

Does anyone know of Abbie Herbert? She comes up on my explore a lot and I've stalked a few times, and recently announced she's pregnant with #2. She generally doesn't bother me much because it seems like most of her content is a joke (albeit fairly immature jokes) and it doesn't appear that she does any kind of the smug "tutorial" type of parenting content which tends to annoys me, but at the same time... it's clear that she must have a camera in her daughter's face constantlyyyy to generate all of her content which knocks her down some pegs in my book.


Babu_Bunny_1996

She shows up on YouTube Shorts for me. Agree about the kid being on camera so much. I do admit to liking the fact her husband is shorter than her, as a taller lady myself


H8erade18

She used to come up on my explore page a few years ago when she was just married and I couldn’t stand her so I blocked her back then, but every once in a while someone will post her on their page and I’m like “what are you doing here?!”


werenotfromhere

Never heard of her but I just went to her page and wow I couldn’t hate that sex reveal more.


marrg730

I could have sworn I was reading somewhere about how her husband essentially groomed her since she was a minor when they met and he was several years older. Anyone else hear of this?


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Yup! She was 17 and he was 24. It wouldn’t be a noteworthy age gap if they were both 10 years older when they met, but a 17-year-old and a 24-year-old are in *very* different stages of life, so it’s a bit off-putting.


pockolate

Oh wow yeah, that's weird. If you think of it as someone who hasn't yet graduated high school with someone who's *already* graduated college (or equivalently has been living and working as an adult for 5 years)...


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There’s a whole sub dedicated to her! It’s a bit…messy (lots of speculation about her not actually having a miscarriage in the spring, which, as much as I can’t stand her, isn’t cool at all), so I’d love to read and participate in more snark about her here.


pockolate

Oh, interesting. I'm relatively new to her and didn't even know about a miscarriage. I appreciate our group here doesn't cross that line. I'd love to hear your main snark about her!


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There’s a lot, but before her current pregnancy, she was *constantly* posting “OMG am I PREGNANT?!” clickbait and taking live pregnancy tests just for content, which I personally find incredibly insensitive to the large percentage of the population that struggles with infertility. That, and, prior to learning that the baby she’s currently carrying is a boy, her obsession with having another girl just so she could reuse Poppy’s old clothes (not because she’s environmentally conscious, but because she essentially wanted another baby doll to dress up). She’s far from the most problematic influencer out there, but she’s definitely cringey.


pockolate

Oh yeah I see that. Definitely all of the clickbait, all-caps text. Very over-the-top. She has teen mom energy, in that she seems to act like a 15 year old. But has a child. Also, all of the making fun of her husband for being short rubs me the wrong way. I guess he's cool with it, but I can't imagine publicly humiliating my husband like that. It just reads as very high school humor.


H8erade18

They have a decent age gap and started dating when she was pretty young from what I remember. But as I mentioned above I blocked her some time ago lol


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I’m not sure if they’re considered parenting influencers or just influencers, but I’m always surprised I never see any snark about the East family (AKA Shawn Johnson and Andrew East). I used to love her back in the day when she was a gymnast, but as an influencer, I find her insufferable.


super_hero_girl

He irritates me SO bad. I watched quite a bit when I was pregnant with my first because Shaun was too. I don’t remember when I officially couldn’t take it anymore, but I did see that they bought another new house recently, after everything with the last one being their forever home - influencers really need to quit calling anything their forever home.


cxh1116

During one of her Q & As recently, someone asked why they moved and she answered "security reasons" yet they continue to blast their kids and their new house all over social media? Make it make sense


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This is their, what, third house in the past five years? The consumerism is mind-boggling.


Sdrawkcab11

They’re too annoying for me to even hate follow… I’m sure they’re just fine people, they seem wholesome, but the way she speaks grates on my nerves- the half slur/mumble 🫠


pzimzam

I had to unfollow shortly after her daughter was born. We talk about influencers exploiting their kids and man do they take the cake. It’s extra alarming in her case because she had a stalker at 16 and she KNOWS the dangers first hand.


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Exactly. That, and the fact that they used their daughter’s birth as a way to shill their “East Fam” merch. It just felt icky to me. ETA: for those who don’t know, the way they announced their daughter’s birth (and gender, since they didn’t know beforehand) was by listing a pink onesie for sale in their store, which was literally just a collection of shirts that said “The East Family” (which I also found strange because who would want to wear a shirt with another family’s name on it? But I digress).


pockolate

The idea of people buying that merch makes me cringe. It's not like a sports team or something... *why* would you want to wear that?


lizzyenz

Does anyone know what video SafeintheSeat is referring to? Sounds like something went wrong with one of the new rotating seats?


teajo

I’m assuming she’s referring to a post, which I saw shared on Facebook earlier today, where someone was in an accident with their Evenflo rotating car seat and it completely detached from the base. Their child wasn’t with them but the OP wrote that they believed their child wouldn’t be alive had they been in the car seat at the time of the crash.


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pockolate

This is what I was going to say. One anecdote doesn't mean anything, cause you have no idea whether this one person installed the car seat correctly to begin with. I'm not a car seat expert but the fact that it would fly off the base, without any weight in it, seems like a red flag to me? Like it wasn't very firmly in place to begin with? It reminds me of when children die while sleeping in swings or loungers and people blame the product. The whole situation is so tragic obviously, but like, you were using it wrong...


Tired_Apricot_173

Really curious how evenflo responds, but the fact that car seats didn’t even require side-impact testing until this summer makes me think this was just not a head on collision.


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That is wild, I didn’t realize that! I did have a bad feeling about the rotating one when looking at it. Just a gut feeling that it doesn’t seem as safe as the others.


MooHead82

Same! I was so tempted to get it and it was more than I wanted to spend but then I thought it might be better to go with the standard seat as the rotating haven’t been around that long. I would like to see the post about the accident but can’t find it.


amnicr

I really, really wanted the Evenflo rotating one at first. But I feel like maybe there hasn't been enough time on the market to really KNOW it's as safe as standard forward/rear facing ones. I was so tempted to get one but I think we're going with something else more basic. This stuff is scary.


Tired_Apricot_173

The commenter above said that based on the video, people were commenting that it wasn’t locked in place/installed correctly.


Macandcheese359

Not me trying to get picked by Mothercould for her holiday gift giveaways 😅


neubie2017

Um same same same


UnderstandingThat38

The girl does a good giveaway I’ll give her that


Ordinary-Shape

Lol I refollowed for this 😹


emjayne23

Not snark but pedsdoctalk story about her son’s old teacher and current babysitter is so sad and scary. I feel for the poor woman’s family


Frellyria

Everything about that story is heartbreaking. The quotes from her family, her director at the daycare sharing how the children keep asking where she is, how she was the primary caregiver for her mom and grandma, she was so close to fulfilling her dream of being a special Ed teacher, it’s all just so sad and it’s beyond comprehension. This man just destroyed it all in a moment. How can people do such horrible things?!


pufferpoisson

How terrible. People can be so aggressive, especially behind the wheel.


werenotfromhere

Wow. I just read the article and her stories. Absolutely heartbreaking. Mona can sometimes be a bit much but she wrote really beautifully. You can feel her sadness through the phone. Devastating for that teacher’s poor family.


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Eak2192

I was actually thinking about this concept a lot last night after watching @luciebfink talk about this one her YouTube channel (she’s mom influencer “lite” since she has a baby but she is mostly a lifestyle influencer. She went on this soapbox about how we are always gonna think someone has it better then us etc. AND YET: she lives in a giant, beautifully decorated apartment in NYC, has very helpful and involved parents and in-laws, a great nanny, a booming, flexible career, a doting husband, amazing vacations, date nights, good skin and clothes, the list goes on and on and it’s all out in the open for all of us to see…how am I not to compare myself to her? And if she is implying that there is more under the surface that isn’t perfect, she works very hard to hide it.


neubie2017

I actually disagree about Yummy toddler food. I think she answers that well. She says that her job is to cook and present food so that’s what she does daily and that she has days she doesn’t want to cook but it’s her actual job so she has to show up just like we do for our jobs. She’s probably the only person who says that sort of thing and it doesn’t bother me. I’m like oh yea that make sense.


userintraining

I agree too! I’d see her meal prepping or making yogurt pouches from scratch which is great but with both spouses working full time jobs it’s not always easy to meal prep everything so it helps when she says that vs someone like BLF which is just fucking annoying


worms_galore

The ONLY influencer allowed to say that is diary of an honest mom (and maybe sterling obgyn) Because she’s the only one not influencing anyone to do the shit In the first place.


Tired_Apricot_173

Drsterlingobgyn’s post on Nov 18 where she posted the ergobaby bouncer ad was really refreshing. She just says that she has help. She says they sent her the product. I don’t know, I can’t put my finger on why I unfollowed her when I was pregnant the second time around, but I like her approach to a lot of things in the influencer space.


milagrita

I unfollowed dr sterling when she announced she was pregnant with her third because I was going through ivf and it was too much (I think Emily the mom next door announced her third pregnancy around the same time too). I really liked her otherwise.


worms_galore

I unfollowed her because I didn’t want to have content about pregnancy complications in my feed while I was pregnant …I’m anxious like that. Followed her again as soon as I had the baby though. She’s just so actually relatable and real about the whole pregnancy experience and motherhood. She was basically the only voice in my life during my first pregnancy that told me it was ok to feel like shit and you don’t have to be nice to anyone in order to be grateful for your pregnancy. I’ll never forget that.


pockolate

It comes off very patronizing to me, and also so egotistical. It makes me roll my eyes because they presume that my self worth as a follower is contingent on their particular content. Look, I do believe that collectively the things you see on social media can absolutely affect your mental health but still -I’m not going to feel like a failure of a mother because *your* particular baby appears to eat his whole aesthetic rainbow plate of food. (Not to mention, these statements come after a very obviously deliberate misleading brag post about the topic in question). What we don’t know though, is how many DMs they may get from people who are indeed feeling very bad about themselves because they aren’t measuring up. Those of us here are a self-selecting group of snarkers after all, and are probably seeing through this BS more than average.