Hi Ash, thanks for reading here. I’m surprised you’ve had the time with all that zooming in on your perceived flaws and fighting the cruel society us women live in. I can honestly say I’ve not really had a problem with how society treats me but that is probably because I don’t look for problems and society doesn’t really give a sh!t what I’m up to. Plus I don’t place my value and worth on my aesthetics, so in all honesty I couldn’t care less what anyone thinks in that respect.
Anyway, my suggestion for 2024 is take your children off IG. Stop using your poor, innocent babies, who have no means to consent, as content in the absence of anything of much interest. Give them privacy. Try your best to minimise, even better, eradicate the digital footprint you have created for them. Yes, you, someone who should be their safe place and safety advocate, has been the opposite. That way, nobody would have the audacity to have an opinion on your children. When I say opinion I mean care. Care about in a way you clearly don’t. How sad that instead of reading here and thinking ‘wow, they have a point’, like all narcissists you’d rather argue the toss and become defensive. What a waste of energy, energy that could be used getting support for your gorgeous boy and, even better, educating yourself.
Your most recent post may very well be a veiled dig at us but the ‘who has access to you’ is so filled with irony. Hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of strangers have access to your children. Infact you have no idea how many as your account is open, so it doesn’t just stop at 400k followers. You have no idea where images and information about your children is being shared. You have no control either because now it’s out there, it’s just out there (so I take back what I said about eradication, that ship has long sailed).
2024 - a year closer to law makers doing the right thing by children. I genuinely believe that by 2030 using children for content will be legislated against across most countries. I dread to think the implications this will have for parents when those children become young adults and there are ramifications. Was showing all those photos of your child on your boob and all those posts about how many sh!ts they have done in one day, really worth it? Those gifted days and holidays and cute outfits won’t be what your children remember. They will remember the time, care and psychological safety you offered them.