If/when I have a child/children, I do not want people fawning over it and telling me things like "perfect mummy for a perfect lil' girl/boy". It makes me vomit a little in my mouth. Sure, it's nice, but having everyone tell you things like that about 20 times every week would get a little... repetitive.
I've seen enough of it over the past year. Two of my friends from school had children last year and a friend from New Zealand. I quickly got tired of their baby photos and statuses about how their kid was asleep finally and how knackered they are. I don't want to have it broadcast to me that it's how parenthood is in the first few months/years. I don't care at the moment.
Baby photos are nice but... they all look the same. It's worse when the parent uploading them to Facebook for all to see totally fawns over their own child. "Isn't she beautiful. Mummy's little star xxx". Be quiet. Keep it to yourself. Perhaps I'm horrible and just don't appreciate children because I'm not a parent and won't be for a while, but hearing about other people's children isn't my idea of fun and never will be.
It seems to completely change people, their lives become consumed by getting things ready for their upcoming child and furthermore enveloped by the birth. From then on their existence is solely for their child's survival and while I appreciate that's probably necessary and what you want to do when you become a parent... the rest of us don't need to hear about it 24/7.
I get that I can not read it; and yes, I've been avoiding reading stuff like that as much as possible. But it wouldn't hurt young parents to refrain from telling me about their child all the time via Facebook/Twitter.
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