Ahh, Instagram. the place of birth for SO many parenting trends like #organisedmum and #lunchboxgoals and #fitspomum.
Except there’s a new instagram trend kicking around we’ve noticed.
Parental disclaimers.
Where parents add a caveat to any photo of their kids eating sugar, having a meat pie for dinner, or posing with a drink that could possibly be misconstrued as alcoholic:
#cocktails! #non-alcoholic #disclaimer – AKA – back off, everyone.
It was listener Meg who brought it to our attention:
From taking pictures of her kids out for ice-cream to celebrate a school concert, to snapping a photo of the occasional meat-pie after swimming practise, Holly feels like she can’t post pictures of her kids on social media without justifying what’s happening in the captions.
Andrew Daddo feels the pressure too, explaining, “I think it’s society, we’re all so scared of offending anyone…’cause you only need one person to go, ‘ohhhhhh’, and then everyone else goes, ‘oh wow, that was terrible!'”
Listen to the full episode of The Glorious Mess below, and hear more from Holly and Andrew:
What about you? Is this a trend that you have noticed?
Top Comments
Is this a real person thing, or is it a mummy blogger thing? Mist of the people I know post pictures of their kids eating birthday cake or whatever, and noone says a thing. I suppose because the people seeing the pictures are actually people they know - real friends and family, not just random followers. People need to shut the hell up sometimes and stop being so damn judgemental.
Yeah it is. I was 12 weeks post-parting and went for a jog, with the blessing of my doctor, and got a comment along the lines of "need to be careful relaxins in your body".
Jeez, some people just need to puul their heads in, don't they. I think I must just be extremely lucky in my group of friends, I can't think of any of them who would say something like that. Plus no kids, so less for them to judge me on! ;)