Caroline Foran #3 stop using your child for content

[AlittleKnownFact]

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Caroline Foran thread#4 it's all about me, you can read about my vulnerable son for a small yearly fee

 

[SunsOutHunsOut]

Her advice for travelling with "offspring"

C should have his own substack on travelling with cunts - I’d sign up for that

 

[Sazb64]

Not to moderate (and as the parent of an autistic child I may be more sensitive to this), but can we please be more aware of how we speak about C here. He's a young child that will very likely read what's been said about him in a few years. "He's the most autistic looking child I've ever seen" etc is a vile way to speak. Whether he is or not shouldn't be up for debate, we can't diagnose him here nor should we.

Back Caroline the cretin

 

[Grace&Mercy]

I posted here a while back wondering what all the bad comments were about and initially wondering what people thought of the random Palestine/Isreal posts thrown in between makeup videos etc. It didn’t fit and I’ve been following things since. Unsurprisingly these have fallen by the wayside. I always found the anxiety podcasts helpful and have a “difficult/sensitive” aka normal toddler so I felt I could relate to Caroline but I haven’t been able to bring myself to listen to any new ones with the latest shenanigans. And as i push through difficult phases with my child it becomes more obvious how she is holding him back. I hate to say that, every parent is doing their best but dear god, keep him offline and send him to preschool.
Pot plants and candles have been removed from my house.
I barely get a minute to p*ss nevermind take a bath.
Makeup - I forget what this is.
Time to hair curl - well that’s a real treat.
Brunches, events and dinners are a thing of the past.
Calling her followers c*nts and the likes is disgraceful.
The way she portrays the poor child is dreadful.
Getting a whole new engagement ring is so superficial and feeling sorry for all the other husbands because they will be inflicted with the same irrational request… Not in my world.
The whole thing is bizarre and possibly sad, she’s either on a downward spiral or taking some poor influencer advice, either way it looks like it will go t*ts up.
How can you be so mean about your child online, ruthless with followers and expect this to end well.
I literally have no family to help out and she’s so lucky but ungrateful she has her mother and mother in law. This one hits to the bone for me.
Every post lately is just uncomfortable to watch. I’ve been following her for years so i’m not quite ready to pull the plug but I might have to soon.
Unbelievable.
Also feel sad her in a way but definitely for the child. Hopefully he gets a second chance at preschool before he’s thrown to the wolves in primary. And talk of a second is so delusional.
Rant over

 

[triona89]

I think Caroline is the epitome of ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. She has styled herself as an anxiety expert and consumes tonnes of anxiety-related content, but doesn’t have the education or professional training to actually apply this knowledge. So when it comes time to parent her little boy, she just sees possible ‘anxiety’ and ‘triggers’ everywhere and is so afraid of ‘traumatising’ him that she indulges his every whim. She doesn’t seem to see the harm she’s doing by being so permissive, or understand that not every negative emotion a toddler has is something to be avoided at all costs.

The way she speaks about C ‘just needing to control what he can’ (like insisting she can’t change out of her pyjamas), the logical response there is to teach him he cannot control those things. It’s hard (I have a toddler too), but just requires some consistency and riding out the meltdowns to teach them how the world works. She has applied her very loose understanding of anxiety to all of these (very normal) toddler behaviours and has ended up in a mess of her own making. I do feel for her in some ways because she means well, but this is why you can’t become an accredited psychologist via Instagram

 

[gurlharbour]

Guarantee if she had a job to get to each morning and didn't have the time to be standing outside the room pandering to this nonsense it would stop sharpish

 

[Hibernia]

It's fucking demented how much the brother looks like Barry. Closest thing she could find to riding herself was getting a hubby lookalike

 

[not_influenced]

I can't imagine meeting a specialist and having my child assessed and being told i need to do ABC in the best interests of my child. Then thinking hmmmm now's a good time to go away for the weekend!?! Is it just me?

 

[ny_style]

Hang on a sec, the child that wrecks her head, as she’s documented at length, wrecks someone else’s and she’s pissed about it?

 

[Lanenola]

This might be the worst thing she's posted. I feel so sad for her little boy

 

[manifestinginfluencers]

everyone: working on a Monday morning
Caroline: off to get another tattoo in her rebel mid 30s era

 

[NotPerfect]

Really really hoping someone close to her gets her to stand down from this insanity for a while. Leaving this legacy for her kid - the first time she experienced rage was as a mother? Absolutely dreadful stuff. Does she really think her future child wants his assessment/diagnosis shared? Can she not even stop and think he will grow and change, go to school, have future relationships, most likely a career..and this is the digital footprint his mother has created for him. It will follow him. He has no say or agency, and she seems so focused on how eveverything impacts her, it’s incredibly toxic and shocking. Edited to add as an apparent journalist who suffers from anxiety herself it’s shocking how little safeguarding of her son she does. Is she unaware of the predator elements of the internet/social media? And that maybe sharing the vulnerability of a child is not really keeping them safe. We know way too much about this kid already.

 

[Bob93]

Parenting, then

 

[Lazydaisy1980]

Nobody gives 2 fucks how many breaks you take from your child Caroline , that wasn’t the point of her message ! Stop coming on with your narcissistic mascara streaked selfies with the story that your terrorist toddler makes your life so hard and you can’t do anything because of his separation anxiety , while at the same time you can have a whole 24 hours to yourself to do with what you want after having tattoo appointments, facials , event attendances and 2 luxury nights away with your husband in the last few weeks . Check your bloody massive privilege before you start berating other woman for questioning you trying to spin a narrative but showing a very different reality !!!

 

[Longtimebrowser]

That mother’s instinct to immediately sell the results of your child’s diagnosis to thousands of strangers on the internet before even discussing it with your husband

 

[Bob93]

Literally doesn't realise that no one is hating on parenting memes.

It's not the memes Caroline, Jesus, it's the fact you share the memes after dedicating 4 years, your child's entire existence on this earth, to sharing how hard you specifically find your son, from day one how he's not what you expected, how your favourite place to be is in the sea so he can't follow you, stories about his most private potty training moments, his most personal specific fears.

So yeah people are reactive about the memes.

For someone so into pysychology and who supposedly overthinks things, you sure as shit don't understand the concept of nuance.

 

[Sazb64]

Honestly how much is there to do with a 4yo who's playing in the garden with toys? Though I suppose if she sat down she wouldn't have content

Silly troll, Caelan is only a tiny little baba and couldn't possibly play independently!!

He needs someone over his shoulder whispering:
"C are you nervous??"
"C is that person over there good or bad??"
"C LOOK ITS A DOG COMING AT YOU"
"Give mammy a kiss. No one loves you like mammy does never forget that. You need me and I need you "
Annnnnnd pause for prosecco selfie #blessed

 

[manifestinginfluencers]

This might be the worst thing she's posted. I feel so sad for her little boy

came here to say the exact same!!! Can’t believe her! Will she ever regret not enjoying the moment with him? Or will she always be oblivious. The rage article she wrote, she gets enraged when he asks for multiple snacks or snacks before bed. Does she really not know that’s extremely normal for his age. The word is “no” and let them have a tantrum so they learn they can’t have everything. None of us are perfect either. I would never say it’s lovely to sit with my quiet niece over my son?? What on earth?? And then post it online? He’s her son! Mind blown

 

[U.ok.hun.]

Anyone else think its mad like child (apparently) can't cope with much daily life outside their house but Dublin city centre for shopping and sit down lunch on the first nice weather SATURDAY of the year when it's bound to be jammers...... like my husband would struggle with that kinda day let alone my 3yo...... I call bullshit. She was just spinning a yarn for content with HS shite

 

[AlittleKnownFact]

this woman is an asshole