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My sister engaged in casual oversharing of her son's early life on Facebook. Nothing too egregious, just lots of baby/toddler photos and cute widdle nicknames i
by bitwize 3y ago
My sister engaged in casual oversharing of her son's early life on Facebook. Nothing too egregious, just lots of baby/toddler photos and cute widdle nicknames in the comments and stuff.
I told her, "You do realize that he's going to grow up to be a teenager, then an adult, and resent you for life because everybody he knows saw you call him your 'little bean', right?"
After that the cutesiness tapered off.
- AlexandrB 3y agoGeez, that's very harsh. My mom still calls me all kinds of pet names, but I don't resent her for it (anymore). I guess I did as a teenager, but teenagers are generally idiots. An adult who resents his parents for having pet names for him/her as a toddler has some other issues to work through I think.
- t-writescode 3y agoThe problem isn’t the pet names, it’s the oversharing on Facebook and YouTube
- apelapan 3y agoUnless something else is going on or the baby ends up mentally ill as an adult, it will not resent your sister for calling it 'little bean' in public and posting pictures of it Wadling about in diapers. The baby might resent these things as a teenager, but who cares? Good luck organizing your own parenthood in a teenager-resentment-safe manner.
- kevinventullo 3y agoAre modern teenagers really looking up old Facebook posts from their peers’ moms to mock them for some nickname they had before they could speak? That seems like such a reach. If anything, that type of investigation would get the investigator labeled as a weirdo.
- t-writescode 3y agoHighschool is cruel.