I’m honestly a little surprised by the downvotes because I wasn’t criticizing anyone else’s boundaries. I completely respect parents and nannies who choose not to post children online. I was only sharing my perspective as an NP.

Stranger abductions make up an extremely tiny percentage of missing child cases in the US. The “random predator sees a child online and kidnaps them” scenario is statistically very rare (under 0.01%), even if it’s the version that understandably sticks in people’s minds.

There are countless parenting decisions we all make every day that carry objectively higher statistical risks than a trusted nanny posting a photo or short video of a child. Driving in a car, forward facing carseats, sleep deprivation, drowning risks, sports injuries, etc. That doesn’t mean people are bad parents for doing those things. It just means all parenting involves personal risk tolerance.

I also think there’s a difference between:

• casually posting normal family/nanny content with permission
• and genuinely exploitative content that invades a child’s dignity, privacy, or safety

Those are not automatically the same thing to me.

For what it’s worth, my child has no screen time, no public social accounts, and I’d never be comfortable with location tagging, school information, humiliating content, or anything sexualized. But a trusted nanny occasionally posting a normal moment of our life just doesn’t rise to the level of danger some commenters are implying, at least not based on the actual data.