Why is this bumped? Lol

We take so many pictures. Not staged, like doing anything extra other than smiling... but lots nonetheless.

I don't have social media for this exact reason. I don't ever want my life or the way I interact with the world, especially my daughter on the way, to be about how many likes or comments I think I can get from it!

Plus, everything on Facebook is so fake. I remember when I had one, there were so many couples posting lovey dovey pictures that would get dozens of likes and I'd know in real life they were on the verge of a break up. Social media is all about acting. Ain't my cup of tea.

I take pictures all the time when I'm out and about with our daughter because I'm a sahm and my husband works long hours. I want him to be able to see how much fun our daughter was having. That being said, I would also let her play with something like that as long as she wanted unless the museum was closing or we had to get to an appointment or something

This is one of the many reasons why I deleted all social media (except baby bump of course) it's been over a year since I've talked to any friends I grew up/went to school with. Facebook was like an addiction. It took a few months for me to get used to being without it but now I don't even think about it.

This is my mom but with pictures ?

If you're right behind the person or in the same general "group" (which you normally are at museums) its hard not to notice what they do specially if they yell at their kids.

I mean lets not pretend we dont know people do this, so many people do this nowadays...

Oh I notice, but if you asked me what someone did at EVERY exhibit, as the op says, I would be like...uh I don't know, I can tell you what my own kids did at every exhibit

At least she waited until after the video to be mean. My cousin is mean during her snap videos. She writes "taking my angels to the park!" And in the video she's like get your ass over here!! ?

My sister is one of those "she's my whole world" but in reality she's horrible to her daughter. Nothing more annoying.

Always, so what if they were just for her? That doesn't change the fact that her kids weren't allowed to just have fun. It was apparently all for the photos.

But let's pretend you don't ever look at the world around you and observe other people. ?

@always because noticing other people takes up so much time...

Yes, she should have been enjoying herself and not focused on rushing through it. Just like you should have been enjoying yourself and so focused on having fun with your kids that you didn't notice what another mom did at every other exhibit.

This is why I hate mom bloggers

I'm the opposite, I always forget to take pictures because I get wrapped up in watching them have fun. Then I wish I had taken some darn pictures!?

I take pictures of my son every time we go do something new, or obviously if he looks really cute. I never want to forget the memories and I love having them to look back on. But I also let my child enjoy himself instead of rushing him to do what I please. I mean, he's only almost 9 months, but still. Lol.

Even if it's for herself,wouldn't it be better to make memories instead of staging them?

I take tons of pictures of my kids, but rarely post them. Maybe she was taking videos for her, not social media.

this reminds me of my sons father. When he sees him he'll play/carry him for the first 10 minutes and takes a ton of photos and then puts him down and basically sits on his phone for the rest of the time.

Not even just the kids. I feel like everyone plans everything around a good social media post. Nobody lives in the moment anymore.

I will admit sometimes I take my Camera places, but I usually only bring it out to catch candid moments of my girls and SO and I never post them. I print them out for my kids.

Gotta love those who try to make themselves look like great parents on social media ??

That's honestly one of my biggest pet peeves, because my stepsons mom does it and she's one of the most unfit parents I've ever seen. On Facebook, however, she talks about how her kids are her world and nothing else matters. I absolutely hate it more than anything ?

I know a girl like this, she posts pictures of her daughter doing all kinds of different activities all day long, tagging the photos as "bestmomever" ? but I know for a fact this girl spends little to no time with her daughter at all.

That's sad. I hate when people take pics of their kids just so they can post them and look like good parents.

I always forget to take pics. I always see people on snapchat taking pics while their kids are getting shots or with throw up on them or a diaper blow out. Thats the farthest thing from my mind in those situations. People are so obsessed with social media it's sad.

Haha this reminds me. I was at the park with my son, it started to rain so we were leaving. A man pulls up with his 2 kids got them out of the car, stood them by the swings, took a pic and hurried them back in the car.

These stories are all so sad ?

@effer

I'm sure someone could be choking and people would record it before even thinking of helping the person.?

All about the likes these days ?

That is EXACTLY how sils and mil are. It annoys me. They also invite us over, play on their phones the whole time and then once we leave post on fb how much fun they had and how much they love us plus a picture that I didnt even realize they took where I look like crap.

Mil has posted a picture of ds saying it was nice spending time with him... she never even saw him that month. She'd rather look good to her friends than actually form a relationship with her grandkids.

That does sound sad. I'm one of those mom's who totally doesn't even think about taking pictures while we do things. Even my son's first birthday party, I think I took like 2 pictures, everyone sent theirs to me. It's not until afterward I'm like "oh man I wish had taken pictures".