Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of relative fame, the information about the kids is "out there" now and always will be. Anyone with a search engine will be able to read about sleep issues, homework issues or whatever far into the future. I have a couple of friends who are not famous in any way but post about their kids to Facebook with abandon, have literally hundreds of friends and don't use any privacy settings. I feel for the day when the kids are bullied because they wet the bed seven years ago...

I just think your notion of retaliation later is a fantasy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: 10-15 years from now I predict some young adults will be fighting back when it comes to mom's oversharing of their lives without their consent. I predict..

1.) There will be talk show segments where mommy blogger kids all grown up tell the truth about their supposedly perfect family life

2.) Some adult child of a famous Mommy blogger will Write a tell all book.

3.) Re-posts of those endless perfect photos with captions telling the truth. "Mom threatened to never let us play with the Wii again if we didn't give a cheese-wiz smile and wear these awful outfits." "Here we are at the zoo. Mom had a photoshoot for 20 minutes and then we went home."

4.) There will be kids who sue their own parents were profiting off their childhood without sharing the proceeds or they will sue their parents for sharing naked photos that ended up in the hands of countless pedaphiles.

Your predictions??

There are no "famous" mommy bloggers. There are some that have a high readership with people who read DCUM, but "mommy blogger" is a niche and doesn't equal fame. I, for one, can't think of a single name when you even say the word "mommy blogger," let alone tell you who is famous.

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There are no "famous" mommy bloggers. There are some that have a high readership with people who read DCUM, but "mommy blogger" is a niche and doesn't equal fame. I, for one, can't think of a single name when you even say the word "mommy blogger," let alone tell you who is famous.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of relative fame, the information about the kids is "out there" now and always will be. Anyone with a search engine will be able to read about sleep issues, homework issues or whatever far into the future. I have a couple of friends who are not famous in any way but post about their kids to Facebook with abandon, have literally hundreds of friends and don't use any privacy settings. I feel for the day when the kids are bullied because they wet the bed seven years ago...

The flaw in that analysis is these kids have already grown up in a TMI culture. Oversharing is all they know and they're not embarrassed by anything.

I do agree that the parents who post negative things about their kids -- my SIL does this, ranting about how awful my nephew is in a bid for reassurances that she's a good mom -- could cause family friction later.

But no kid is going to write a "tell-all" book about this trauma. More importantly, no publisher will publish it. I suppose the kid could self-publish in an e-book. But no one is going to buy or read it.

But yeah, if your point is that it's bad to chronicle your parenting challenges online, I agree. We're all judging the people who do this and public assurances to the commentary, we generally feel that you ARE a bad parent based on what you're telling us. I just think your notion of retaliation later is a fantasy.

And the flaw in your analysis is that these kids have grown up in a climate of oversharing and TMI, but it's completely different to have someone else, especially your parents, sharing your development, most embarrassing stories, and pictures from your really ugly phase before you cleared puberty. I don't follow any mommy bloggers well enough to know their names, but then I don't follow wrestling, either. That doesn't mean these kids and their stories aren't well known to millions.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of relative fame, the information about the kids is "out there" now and always will be. Anyone with a search engine will be able to read about sleep issues, homework issues or whatever far into the future. I have a couple of friends who are not famous in any way but post about their kids to Facebook with abandon, have literally hundreds of friends and don't use any privacy settings. I feel for the day when the kids are bullied because they wet the bed seven years ago...

The flaw in that analysis is these kids have already grown up in a TMI culture. Oversharing is all they know and they're not embarrassed by anything.

I do agree that the parents who post negative things about their kids -- my SIL does this, ranting about how awful my nephew is in a bid for reassurances that she's a good mom -- could cause family friction later.

But no kid is going to write a "tell-all" book about this trauma. More importantly, no publisher will publish it. I suppose the kid could self-publish in an e-book. But no one is going to buy or read it.

But yeah, if your point is that it's bad to chronicle your parenting challenges online, I agree. We're all judging the people who do this and public assurances to the commentary, we generally feel that you ARE a bad parent based on what you're telling us. I just think your notion of retaliation later is a fantasy.

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of relative fame, the information about the kids is "out there" now and always will be. Anyone with a search engine will be able to read about sleep issues, homework issues or whatever far into the future. I have a couple of friends who are not famous in any way but post about their kids to Facebook with abandon, have literally hundreds of friends and don't use any privacy settings. I feel for the day when the kids are bullied because they wet the bed seven years ago...

Anonymous wrote: 10-15 years from now I predict some young adults will be fighting back when it comes to mom's oversharing of their lives without their consent. I predict..

1.) There will be talk show segments where mommy blogger kids all grown up tell the truth about their supposedly perfect family life

2.) Some adult child of a famous Mommy blogger will Write a tell all book.

3.) Re-posts of those endless perfect photos with captions telling the truth. "Mom threatened to never let us play with the Wii again if we didn't give a cheese-wiz smile and wear these awful outfits." "Here we are at the zoo. Mom had a photoshoot for 20 minutes and then we went home."

4.) There will be kids who sue their own parents were profiting off their childhood without sharing the proceeds or they will sue their parents for sharing naked photos that ended up in the hands of countless pedaphiles.

Your predictions??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I predict you are a asshat because you use the word Mommy with an adult audience.

The bloggers are called "mommy bloggers."

OP, I kind of look forward to seeing the flip side of these stories, though I do feel bad for the over exposed kids. It's just not appropriate to commoditize one's kids that way, and fetishizing homemaking and parenting is weird and creates an unnecessarily high bar for all parents. It's not enough to play play dough with your kids, you ought to be making your own. You can't just have meals with your family, you should be making clean food grown in your own organic garden. Your house should be clean - but friendly and personable! and you! - and coordinated, but not too, you know? So I'll enjoy seeing the kids' version.

What blog in particular set you off?

Anonymous wrote:I predict you are a asshat because you use the word Mommy with an adult audience.

Anonymous wrote:I predict you are a asshat because you use the word Mommy with an adult audience.