Koosh - I've always disliked her. It's amazing to me how she's turned Nella's birth and her reaction into a profit. She just rubs me the wrong way.
Me too. And it has been trickling out via several outlets that they had more than just a passing glimmer of knowledge that Nella had DS before she was born. So basically this beautiful birth story is not quite as authentic as people like to think it is.
Would this explain why her birth pictures look completely pre-planned and staged? Am I the only one who feels this way?
anywhoo, the only problem I have with it is the fact that there are creepers on the internet who get off on seeing naked children. Sure, kids get naked and run around but I wouldn't post pictures of them doing so online. If the little girl was sitting down in the tub, sure, fine. But she's not. so take another bathroom-mirror-baby-bump picture with your naked child out of view.
Which basically means she has a computer. Never heard of her.
I mean she isn't some world renowned person, but she did write a book and has been on the Today show. So more people know about her than know about me.
She wrote a blog post about when she gave birth and realized her newborn had Down Syndrome. It went viral. Since then she has been featured on several TV and radio shows and wrote a book.
I could see how her blog and writing style may not be everyone's cup of tea but I don't get the hate. She is a photographer so it's unusual that her blog has a shit ton of pictures.
Post by thoseareradishes on Jan 21, 2013 9:28:17 GMT -5
Not only is it bad to post pictures of the child naked so any creeper can look at it, but maybe the child doesn't want naked pictures of herself on the internet? As a kid, it was always so embarrassing to even have naked pictures of yourself as a little kid in the house. Can you imagine if your parents decided to post them online? So that when you are in high school everyone can look them up? So your boss can see them when he runs a google search on you? So your own kids can see them when they learn to use the internet?
She wrote a blog post about when she gave birth and realized her newborn had Down Syndrome. It went viral. Since then she has been featured on several TV and radio shows and wrote a book.
I could see how her blog and writing style may not be everyone's cup of tea but I don't get the hate. She is a photographer so it's unusual that her blog has a shit ton of pictures.
You mean a "fauxtographer"? I take serious issue with bloggers buying fancy cameras and photoshopping the shit out of them and calling themselves photographers.
I would like to see half of the "photographers" these days master a manual camera and a dark room, then we'll talk photography.
I've come to understand that I am in the minority apparently who think naked pics of babies/children do not belong on the Internet. It's just not cool. And, yes, as people have brought up, there are predators out there who find them and think they are juuuuust wonderful. Barf.
Why the hate? People are always criticizing her for her overly optimistic "puppies and rainbows" outlook on life.
She addresses this sometimes on her blog. People apparently leave bullying comments trying to get her to admit that her life isn't perfect and that she isn't that happy all the time. I don't get it myself. 1.) Her blog is called "Enjoying the Small Things" so you'd think that readers would understand that's kind of her shtick, 2.) Doesn't everyone assume that there's more going on in the background of the happy stories that people portray on social media sites? Very few people out of their way to advertise their problems 3.) if she annoys you that much, you don't have to read her blog.
I like her but I hardly ever click on it unless I'm in the mood to look at her photos. I skip over her entries because they're not that well written (I read her book, which is, and she really needs an editor) and she writes in walls of text, which is annoying to read online.
I definitely wouldn't post a naked picture of my child for that many people to see, but I agree that I don't get all the general hate for her (unrelated to this topic).
Post by RoxMonster on Jan 21, 2013 10:02:13 GMT -5
I had never heard of her until someone on here (I forget which board) posted a link to her blog the other day. I have only read the blog post linked above, but none of the rest of her blog, so I have no previous opinions of her.
However, I think this photo was just a dumb thing to post on the Internet for all the reasons previously listed. It does look like it was removed from Instagram but that she first got very defensive and made a bunch of comments toward people before taking it down. I just don't think it's a smart thing to do. Not only is nothing ever safe on the Internet, but if you are a popular blogger with thousand of followers and your name is "out there" somewhat, you will be a much bigger and easier target for the wrong kind of people to see this photo and misuse it, more so even than just a regular person like me who doesn't do much on the Internet at all and is not well-known.
I also am not comfortable with a 10 year old taking her top off in public. For many girls, that age is when they start wearing training bras, getting periods, etc. I just think once a kid starts elementary school, they shouldn't be prancing around half- or fully-naked in public. The parents should start showing them that nudity isn't appropriate out in public, regardless of how they are around the house. You never know what kind of creep is at the pool or at the beach, etc. I would side-eye that if I saw it.
I'm not okay with 10-year-old public nudity because it's just not acceptable in our society. I think parents who don't shut it down are doing their children a disservice.
By fifth grade I had a "boyfriend" who I enjoyed kissing (lips closed of course!) after soccer games, lol. Opposite-sex crushes were really common and people were pretty self-conscious about their bodies. Heck, this was 1-2 years after we had to watch the videos on puberty as a class and we were WAITING for shit to happen. Some of my friends had breasts. If someone at school had found out I was running around naked at the beach, I would have been majorly teased.
Papier- sorry, I don't think I can quote from my phone. I'm pretty sure she is a professional photographer and that was her job before she became better known for blogging.
I use to read her blog regularly. Nella's birth story was touching if not over the top. But somewhere along the line, I lost interest. And judging by a lot of the comments on GOMI (an entertaining read by the way), she's lost a lot of fans. And although she's raised a lot of money for Down Syndrome, what bugs me is when people tout her blog as this 'wonderful resource' for moms expecting babies with Down Syndrome when in my opinion, there are many other blogs out there that paint a more realistic picture of what to expect. As for the picture, I agree with a lot of the posters...it's one thing to take a naked toddler picture for the family scrapbook. But you're opening up a whole can of worms when you post that picture on the internet for your thousands of followers to see.
Hoping the quote works since I'm on the app- but I don't get this either. How does someone with a 2/3 yr old write a memoir about raising a special needs kid? Plus her perfect photos all the time irk me.
So is it just pictures of kids without clothes on we're taking issue with? Because I can't even tell you how many naked kids that age I've seen at the beach and pool. Last week I saw a ten year old take her top off at the beach and no one blinked.
Really? It's the INTERNET. Perverts and psychos everywhere have access to naked photos of her 3 year old. I don't post pics of my kids fully clothed anywhere except my private facebook page and even that makes me nervous.
I was a fan and thought her birth story was touching.
However I think taking a full frontal nude photo of your disabled toddler so you can show off your baby bump while making a duck face is rather disgusting. And it isn't like N was just blurred in the background. N was centered and in focus in the photo.
I guess I just don't see what she was trying to accomplish. I am sure there were a half dozen other ways Kelle could have taken a selfie without showing a naked N in the background.
I hate to say it but given the water and toy filled tub, seemingly ready for a bath (since what kid would stand naked in cold water), I wonder if she gave N the ice cream to keep her in that spot so she could take just that photo to court controversy and drive up the traffic to her blog so she could up her stats and get paid more. I sincerely hope not but it all just seems to staged and weird.
It looks like she took the photo down now but as we know, nothing on the internet is truly deleted. Poor N.
So is it just pictures of kids without clothes on we're taking issue with? Because I can't even tell you how many naked kids that age I've seen at the beach and pool. Last week I saw a ten year old take her top off at the beach and no one blinked.
Really? It's the INTERNET. Perverts and psychos everywhere have access to naked photos of her 3 year old. I don't post pics of my kids fully clothed anywhere except my private facebook page and even that makes me nervous.
Yeah and if the internet ceased to exist perverts would go back to jerking off to the Sears catalog. I don't understand why people have to be so paranoid about something we have no control over. The fact remains that 90% of children who are molested are molested by a close friend of relative.
Papier, I want to kiss you right now. Yes!! And I think it's weird for someone to take that many photos. Stop and smell the flowers once instead of just photographing them.
Really? It's the INTERNET. Perverts and psychos everywhere have access to naked photos of her 3 year old. I don't post pics of my kids fully clothed anywhere except my private facebook page and even that makes me nervous.
Yeah and if the internet ceased to exist perverts would go back to jerking off to the Sears catalog. I don't understand why people have to be so paranoid about something we have no control over. The fact remains that 90% of children who are molested are molested by a close friend of relative.
My Sears catalog doesn't have pictures of naked children. Nor do I know the names, addresses, and school of the children in the Sears catalog.
There is a big difference between a picture of an anonymous clothed child and a picture of a naked child attached to all of their identifying information.
Post by MamaMaui24 on Jan 21, 2013 12:27:07 GMT -5
I didn't zoom in or anything and I'm not planning to go search for it again, but wasn't N sideways? To me it looked like a mother baby belly shot. I agree that it is not cool, but 3 year old bare chest and side buns is different IMO than a front shot.
Post by lurkergirl123 on Jan 21, 2013 12:28:50 GMT -5
I don't have strong feelings about her one way or the other, but I wouldn't put any kind of nude pictures of my kid online, no matter how old they were.
Also, her birth story about Nella was extremely upsetting to some of my friends with DS kids.
my cousin recently posted a facebook picture of her 2.5 year old daughter in the tub. her legs are spread and she's in a straddle position. I get that she thinks her kid is cute, but there are some things we just don't need to document with photographs on the internet.
Ack! Dude, I am so glad I grew up before facebook (though hopefully my parents would have had some restraint)...can you imagine, having pics like this of yourself floating around on the web? Crap like this freaks me out.
Wikipedia doesn't have a listing for this lady. How is she famous enough for people to have an opinion about?
Is she just a blogger?
Agree, I had no idea who this person was.
Kelle is well known enough that one of my college professors gave me Bloom (her book) as a graduation present. The prof is an SLP who I worked with in a DS support group.