TMFI - deleted, thanks for playing!

[tarheels]

Thanks everybody for your thoughts! Told you I'd get rid of it when I was done.

[tarheels]

And why is that little boy's potty in the middle of the kitchen? Is a thing? Seems unsanitary to me.

[kaylie]

Jan 5, 2013 22:03:40 GMT -5 tarheels said:

And why is that little boy's potty in the middle of the kitchen? Is a thing? Seems unsanitary to me.

This was my first thought.

I don't know, it seems like the few people I know who have had kids already now get really excited about shit, literally. Maybe it's one of those things where you think it's special because it's your kid?

[tarheels]

I had every intention of removing it once the post had moved down the page a little. I get how people feel about their kid. But since all of this person's FB photo albums are public and she has over 1,000 FB friends, I'm thinking she's not terribly concerned about privacy. But I was going to remove it later just the same.

[Deleted]

Yeah, um no. I don't want to share my children's specific potty experiences and I certianly don't want to share photos. I don't think I even have any toilet sitting pictures of my two potty trained children. Is this something I was supposed to document in photo? I am pretty sure they will be glad that they don't have to flip through a photo album 20 years from now and see themselves on the toilet.
I will admit to posting a a small mention of congratulations on my blog to DS when he was potty trained. I think it went something like "DS has done a great job potty training and I am glad it is over." I did not specify anything and I refused to go in to detail. Poop is gross and I don't generally like to talk about it.

[Deleted]

Stuff like this is reason #8,792 why I'm glad I quit FB. This is just so bizarre, I can't even comprehend it. I do not want to hear about your kid's bodily functions, period. What gets me are the parents who do play by play status updates while the mother is in the process of giving birth to said child. SMH.

[pitterwoo]

good point on removing the picture.

I do think parenthood takes over so much of the brain that the result in these sorts of situations is just bad. Caveman parents didn't evolve to handle discretion on FB. It's really creepy. If facebook is still a big deal in 10 or 15 years I have a feeling that there are going to be lots of kids pulling down photos and tags of themselves as babies and little kids.

[315bride]

I dunno. Thankfully most of my peers know not to overshare about their kids. My sister, however, knows no boundaries. She called me the other day to announce that my nephew pooped in the potty. I didn't even know how to respond.

[sailorgray]

You only have 3 who do this? Consider yourself lucky.

Honestly, they don't bother me. They prob have a group of fellow moms who will respond and the post was probably written with them in mind. I am sure people are tired of my posts about my boys. They can block me or whatever. It's where I am at the moment.

That being said, I have two friends who are total mommy martyrs and they drive me absolutely insane. When it comes to the potty in the kitchen, some methods say to keep a few throughout the house and sometimes you just gotta grab one quick.

[sailorgray]

[quote author=315bride board=homegarden thread=116440 post=1944801 time=1357444771She called me the other day to announce that my nephew pooped in the potty. I didn't even know how to respond. [/quote]

Dude, this is huge! DS scored a trip to ChuckeCheese for pooping in the potty...lol.

[tarheels]

Yall.

Offender C just posted HER view from THE ADULT TOILET of her child in the playroom with the words: "Playing single mom tonight - I guess that means no privacy! This is the view from the toilet into the playroom."

O.M.G.

[peach]

Yeah um.....I have never posted anything about pee or poo/potty training. MAYBE I have made a comment on FB about finally being done with diapers or something, but not anything more.

That's gross. And not only am I a mom, I have helped to potty train and in some cases single handedly potty trained over a dozen kids. Probably closer to 20. Never felt the need to talk about/share any of those details except with the child's mom...

[Deleted]

Jan 6, 2013 0:23:44 GMT -5 tarheels said:

This is the view from the toilet into the playroom.

This made me giggle a lot.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Jan 16, 1970 12:04:01 GMT -5 tarheels said:

I have three friends who are ALWAYS oversharing shit like this.

I loled. For real.

[315bride]

P.S. I got into a serious fight with my sister when she posted a similar picture as Offender C. I basically told her that naked pictures of children didn't belong on FB, let alone the Internet. She didn't take it too well.

[tarheels]

Jan 6, 2013 0:50:35 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Jan 16, 1970 12:04:01 GMT -5 tarheels said:

I have three friends who are ALWAYS oversharing shit like this.

I loled. For real.

LOL

[TEM325]

YES, it drives my batty!!!!

This nugget appeared in my feed today--- "It's all fun and games until someone poops in the bath tub."

[katie4253]

Gabe is 19 months. I do not share anything related to poop on FB. I would especially not post a pic. I might say something related to potty training like "We're starting to potty train, any tips?"

Motherhood has personally made me do some repulsive things regarding cleaning up body fluid. But NO ONE needs to know about it. LOL! Especially not FB.

[kristilynnmy]

Oh hell no! I'm by no means the mother of the year but discussion of my daughters poop is private and I would NEVER put a picture of my child on the potty/in the bath on the internet. No one cares except maybe the grandmothers (or pedophiles)... so text or call them (the grandmothers, I mean).

[katie4253]

Jan 6, 2013 7:58:06 GMT -5 kristilynnmy said:

(the grandmothers, I mean).

Glad you cleared that up. LMAO.

[teeah22]

I may have talked about potty training on FB, honestly I don't remember specifically. I've posted a "sitting on the potty" pic. Honestly before I had a child I found all the kid and baby posts semi-annoying but now I understand. Yes, having a child changes a whole lot of things in your life. If anyone thinks I'm oversharing, they can unsubscribe me. I've done the same with plenty of people that were constantly annoying me with their posts. It's their page though, they can post whatever they want, it's pretty easy to kick them out of your newsfeed if you don't want to read it.

[sailorgray]

Jan 6, 2013 0:23:44 GMT -5 tarheels said:

Yall.

Offender C just posted HER view from THE ADULT TOILET of her child in the playroom with the words: "Playing single mom tonight - I guess that means no privacy! This is the view from the toilet into the playroom."

O.M.G.

Oh Lord, so she's a mommy martyr, too. Drives me crazy. I have a friend that updates 3x a day and it's always "woe is me," Mommy's work is never done," "taking a well-deserved break", etc. That drives me crazier than potty updates.

When we started PT DS1, I asked for pointers on FB, but that's it.

[Deleted]

I'm with you and I have a kid.
You're on my FB THR...I post a lot about my kid, but it's pretty basic silly stuff. Nothing I find overly gross.

As fo the potty chair in the kitchen...I know kids that will drag a clean potty all over the house when they're learning. I don't think it's too big a deal, but I'd never let my kid practice in the kitchen. Still gross but not as bad as you're picturing maybe.

We're just trying potty training for fun around here/no pressure and we have a lid that snaps over a regular potty..I refuse to deal with all that other stuff. None of that info will ever end up on FB..or at least not more than a "Yay! We're all potty trained!"

[Deleted]

And LOL on the playroom from the potty picture!
Shut the damn door people! Nothing will happen to your kid in 40 seconds I promise.
The only time I leave the bathroom door open is when I'm showering and home alone. Even then I've trained Rubes to just play in our room or watch a bit of TV. On the bad days though she wanders in and screams at the shower until I'm done.
Whatever. She'll live. No sense in being a mommy martyr over that.

It's like the moms who have a newborn and are all like, "I haven't showered in the 4 days!" Really. Put your kid in the carseat/crib, take 2 minutes and slap some soap on already!

[Deleted]

Jan 5, 2013 22:11:59 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

First two are pretty normal among my group and not really weird to me. However, no potty pictures. Yuck.
Also you should remove the pic from GBCN. If its not for FB, not cool for GBCN. And it's not yours to share. Sorry if it sounds snotty, but I have a thing about that. I dont want anyone to share my FB pics on the internets so I try to do the same.
Eta: especially because its a kid.

You have a point. But I guess as a parent, I only put things up that I'm okay with the free world seeing. I've just come understand that the internet is free domain and I have no control over what happens to my pictures.

And really, if you slap a naked picture of your kid up...you're probably not real worried about your kid's privcay either.

[pickle123]

Never ok. Ugh drives me batty. And I have one potty trained and never felt the urge to share updates about how many dumps my child took in one day, unlike a FB friend of mine.

[315bride]

Jan 6, 2013 11:48:00 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

Jan 6, 2013 0:53:43 GMT -5 @315bride said:

P.S. I got into a serious fight with my sister when she posted a similar picture as Offender C. I basically told her that naked pictures of children didn't belong on FB, let alone the Internet. She didn't take it too well.

I have been here with a friend. She was so angry when I suggested its not that hard for the pictures to get in the wrong hands. She sincerely thought because her FB is friends only, NBD. And see how easy it is now?

That was my point exactly.

[emoflamingo]

Dairy, I closed the door once. And when I came out (30 seconds or less later), monkey was outside 3 houses down. However, I am no martyr so I didn't post a picture of my view from the can or any "woe is me" about it lol.