Baby Shaming continues to be a “hot topic” thanks to a feature on The Today Show over the weekend.
I was a little disappointed Lester Holt did not call me for comment, but apparently, the piece had nothing to do with me “shaming” Mazzy and was all about a dad who posted a picture of his three-year-old daughter on facebook with a sign hanging around her neck about pooping in the shower.
The Today Show folks did not see the humor in the event, so much so that they questioned it’s effectiveness as a form of punishment. “The child can’t even read!” a stunned Jenna Wolfe declared.
EXACTLY.
It’s not discipline. It’s a joke. SHEESH.
I do feel it’s important to draw some line as to what is and what is not appropriate. I am going to call it “THE DEFECATION LINE”. I can definitely see a three-year-old girl being embarrassed at some point in the future knowing the internet is aware of her past as a shower shitter.
With that in mind, I have sorted through the reader-submitted baby shaming photos and left out the ones having to do with peeing, pooping, farting and sharting. I don’t believe any of the incidents featured below will ever truly embarrass a child.
Although, I thought embarrassing your children was half the point of being a parent…
and still my favorite…
I’m sure they are all very sorry.
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Hilarious! I *love* baby shaming! 🙂
Oh these are hilarious, my favorite is the glue and glitter. This post is totally comforting because my kids have done most of these things and maybe more.
Sorry, I’m too busy giggling over the sweet girl who decorated her brother and dog with pink glitter to be able to offer any serious commentary on this. Wish I could have seen you on the Today Show!
These are awesome!! You’ve got hilarious readers. I can’t tell which is my favorite. The Wham one is great, pink glitter, the sleeping baby… all good. This is baby shaming at its best. LOL.
Too funny. Seriously, haven’t all of our kids done these things? When I tell my adult sons about this type of behavior(before they have kids, I’m sure) they will no doubt laugh at me. “Whatever, Mom.”
I love it! Some people truly have no sense of [what is obviously meant to be] humor!
Love these! My toddler got into a black ink pad once..she looked like she had a mustache and beard by the time we caught her.
LOVE! Thank you for the morning laugh and kudos to your readers who, clearly, hit every branch of the awesome tree.
This is the future of discipline. Screw the Today Show.
Kidding, Today Show! Call me.
but this is the future of funny. I’m pretty shitty at discipline. But I know funny.
I’ve gotta go with Lester and Jenna on the incident they referenced on the Today Show – not cool to baby shame using an incident that could actually embarrass a child later in life. So, I like your “Defecation Line” standard and agree that none of the above are true “shaming.” I laughed out loud at the Smurf one. But my favorite is the first pic from Funny or Die. (Pssst… I love that album, too.)
There is nothing wrong with loving Wham.
I repeat.
Nothing.
OMG the Smurf kid makes me so happy. In a lalalalalalaaaaa way.
NinjaMom is lying.
She only spells it right 49 percent of the time.
I want to see a picture of the dog rocking the princess glitter!
This is fantastic! I am going to fire up some “husband shaming” signs…
I think these are very funny!
But I, personally, do think twice before posing to Facebook (for example) pictures or comments that might embarrass my children if they were to look at them in a few years. Once I posted a very cute story that my older child wrote. It was also funny because of some very “creative” grammar and spelling that was used. Initially I didn’t think anything of it, but after my husband mentioned it to me, I realized that I probably shouldn’t have posted it. My son was doing his best and might not like it if he ever stumbles on this post and the comment I accompanied with it.
Oh Mah GAH! I love the Smurf Girl!
… shower shitter…. heh…
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OHMYGOSH, that first picture!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Ya know, I hope I’m raising my son with enough of a sense of humor that he wouldn’t be pissed about stuff like this. Who are we if we can’t make fun of ourselves? I mean, our kids…
My husband makes a very good point about baby shaming and all the other embarrassing crap I put on the internet about my kids all the time. “They’re gonna be pissed at you about something one way or another when they’re older. Might as well be about this.”
LOL a little glue and glitter never hurt anyone 😉
It was cute… til I had to clean her up and noticed she had colored her legs also all the way to her knees.
Hilarious! We once had glue and glitter on the carpet (and I was told by one of the kids it was “Unicorn Poop”)…I almost wish it was on one of the kids. May have been easier to clean!
Love the baby shaming! Such a fun idea 🙂
Well, if our 3 year olds were on facebook, then maybe it would actually shame them. What’s wrong with people that they can’t see the funny any more. Cute post! Love the signs, they made me laugh! Thanks for the smiles today.
I love baby shaming – it makes me laugh AND feel better than my kids aren’t the only ones doing stupid crap. I think my fave is the girl who won’t go to sleep even though her mom needs to get up early – partly because I relate, and party because the baby looks like she’s about to do a Power Point presentation, or try to sell me a used car. I have no idea why. I might need to lower my dosage of wine.
I love this. I have to say, the little girl who wanted her brother to be a sparkly pink princess still is my fave!
These are hilarious. If you’re going to have to pay for their eventual therapy bill anyway, you may as well have earned it, right?
Too funny! Love the line you drew on what to post and what not to post. Thanks for featuring my kid! Would love to see photos of that glittered pink princess dog!
I love your baby shaming!!! 🙂 Hilarious!!!
Hilarious! I don’t know how anyone could take this seriously. Perhaps people who’ve never had their toddler glue and glitter the baby.
hahahaha that is my one year old Angeline. The original picture I submitted had 3 different poses in one of them she was pointing right to the word “refuse” almost as if she knew exactly what it said. 😛
Nope. My shame is I only spell it right 1% of the time. I am the 99%. But, to be fair, my paper didn’t have autocorrect.
I remember that so well Susan! I still think about it sometimes when I have an icky clean up. I think, “At least it’s not glue and glitter.”
Cant wait till the grandparents catch wind of their children shaming the grand kids……like the parents were perfect little angels and never made a mess or got into things they weren’t supposed too?
just to be clear talking about the parents who post things that will humiliate their kids in the future , like shitting in the bathtub.
OMG thought it was blood. Scary! And haha about the black suit spit-up, just before a meeting. LOL underpants in the potty!
Loved this and I could add a few of my own but then I am a mummy and all mummies have stories like this………
Why was this not around when I had little ones? I doubt I could get my teen to cooperate with this.
Your pink glitter one was a killer. I felt actual pain.
Ellen
Why was this not around when my kids were little ones? I doubt my teenager would agree to wear signs admitting to all of her baby transgressions, but that would be kinda funny. What about that one Today Show? Teens consenting to be ribbed about toddler badness? Is that funny?
Your one about the pink glitter was killer. I felt actual pain.
Ellen
These are stupid. Do people have nothing better to do?
A fascinating discussion is definitely worth comment.
I think that you ought to publish more about this issue, it might not be
a taboo subject but typically folks don’t talk about these
issues. To the next! Best wishes!!
I love that parents have a sense of humor about their kids! Just found something called the Baby Shaming Kit that does this. Funny stuff!! http://www.babyshamingkit.com
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