Putting your children on social media when you’re a small family with a private social media account is one thing. Putting your children on social media when they’re not at an age to have the opportunity to disagree with their parents posting bath-time and other sensitive photos on social media is another thing. Making money from posting sensitive private information about your your child /children is a new level of low.
When they get older and especially start secondary school privacy becomes more of a concern. Kids are cruel, we all wish they weren’t but they are. They’re all trying to find their place in the world, ideally in private. Her kids will start to feel embarressed by the content she post about them, especially when it comes to early childhood anecdotes, funny photos, and updates on developmental and behavioral challenges. It can become a breeding ground for bullying.
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to control information once it’s posted online. You can’t prevent anyone from taking a screenshot of your post and disseminating it beyond your reach. Your deleted posts, while apparently gone from your social media profile, may still live on in Internet archive websites and on the social media servers themselves. This thread will be read by them at some point in their lives. With that in mind, she should consider how her photos and stories may impact her children when they're much older, even an adult. Job interviews etc and the photos could get into the wrong hands, with complete strangers armed with knowing everything about you.
Sadly it’s been known for Photos and videos of children shared by their parents on social media sometimes turn up on disturbing websites and forums, some of them dedicated to child pornography. Extreme as it may sounds, it happens and This alone should make you STOP! Posts with information like location tags and landmarks give strangers as well as known aggressors the ability to locate a child and other family members.