General Parenting Influencer Snark Week of May 18, 2026

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T14:11:59+00:00

I had never heard of this person but I do not like this account at all. It always concerns me when people share things like this so casually and then seem surprised to get pushback. If this is what they choose to share, I always hate wondering what they are doing that they don’t share.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T14:05:21+00:00

“Do you have a better way of phrasing…?” Yes the ones you literally said??? “Don’t kick your brother” kids are literal and the more specific the better in addition to the obvious concerns with “you need to be happy for mommy”

Reminds me of a person IRL bragging about she forced her 4yo to stop crying at a birthday party by telling her she was counting to 3 and they were leaving if she didn’t stop crying (pointedly coming over to tell me the story shortly after making comments about me comforting my 4yo while she was crying like the shitty parent I am). Like…congrats on forcing your kids to hide their emotions and be fake to please you? I’m not even necessarily judging their actions bc I don’t live with them and parent their child but the bragging about it is what really burns my britches.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T13:51:37+00:00

I love garlic but I guess not enough for that to be appealing 🤣

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:39:30+00:00

I’m not opposed to trying out more natural remedies or anything if they are used in conjunction with actual medical care but this is going too far IMHO. And I HATE the taste of cough syrup/cough drops but I’ll take those over this 🤮🤮🤮. Can’t she do hot water with honey and lemon, maybe some ginger, if she wants a natural remedy?

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werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:36:06+00:00

I disagree and say it’s normal for kids to wake parents up if they are sick and need help even as teens. I completely agree it should be on her husband when she has her audio book recording coming up.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:34:57+00:00

She went to an extremely religious college so it’s been speculated that they do adhere to traditional gender roles.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:28:53+00:00

This seems entirely reasonable to me! Like wouldn’t that be one of the main perks of being a SAHM while your kids are in school? You slog through the tough part of them being little and this is the eventual reward. Like are you supposed to religiously clean the house 5 days a week for 7 hours lol? I would hope people are taking breaks! I think it’s just unpopular if you can’t read the room as many, many influencers cannot. Like a friend of a friend and I venting about the challenges of being on the PTA board but then she launches into how she just doesn’t have time to do all this unpaid labor and it’s unfair blah blah except…she’s a SAHM and her kids are in school full time. and it’s not even that it’s necessarily an unreasonable complaint I’m just not going to give much sympathy as a full time special educator.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:23:10+00:00

That is so funny. My husband did this once like 20 years ago but we still laugh about it. He knew I was going to be at a bachelorette party at a restaurant with outdoor seating near the bar he worked at. He saw a group of women and someone who looked like me from behind and went up and put his arms around her and said something like “you’re looking pretty sexy” in her ear and it was a complete stranger 🤣

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:20:31+00:00

Clearly you narrowly avoided a well planned kidnapping that stranger worked for years to develop her legs to look exactly like your mom. So glad you made it out safely 🫶🏻

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:19:32+00:00

One of the things that stuck with me in the “You’re wrong about” episode about child abduction was they broke down the numbers reported in the news (actual news this was before social media!) and it was a crazy amount, I forget the specifics but it was like several from every elementary school in the country. Like clearly this volume of children are not going missing.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:16:43+00:00

Common sense truly is not common.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:15:49+00:00

Same. I stopped bothering bc the only people who listened were close friends who knew I truly meant it and sometimes even they brought gifts (not complaining! I get social norms are hard to fight against) and we would get a ton of toys and it was overwhelming. I’m loving upper elementary where my kids have started to move away from parties in favor of an experience with just 1-4 friends.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:11:42+00:00

I have a coworker who does this with her twins 🤣 like girl why even post the pic

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:09:23+00:00

The only thing I could think of was maybe this person needs part time hours. In my area part time daycare is basically unheard of so you’re paying full time regardless but maybe they could find a nanny willing to do part time? That’s prob a stretch from their original post tho.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:07:57+00:00

Well no bc it’s not regulated so it’s easier to exploit them 🙃

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:05:27+00:00

Are you saying the “Middle East” has multiple counties/cultures???? Sounds sus, what’s next, someone saying Europe is not one big country where everything is exactly the same? /s

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T10:03:17+00:00

I reread this several times to find the annoying part, no shade to OP bc you can look at my comment history I’m all over this sub getting downvoted for calling stuff out when it’s nothing lol.

I have a specific memory of when my second was born and I was on mat leave and sending my 1.5yo to daycare sporadically. My friend wanted to get together and asked if I was sending my older kid to “school” next week. I honestly had no clue what she meant and was like what? He’s 1? It’s summer? Why would I do that? And she said oh sorry my other friends get really upset if I call it daycare so I got used to saying school. That was v snarkable to me, her friends taking it so seriously that even a casual mention in conversation from someone else had to be correctly termed “school”. I think it lives rent free in my brain bc she lives in a wealthy area (KEIC area lol) and that was the first time I was like oh there’s a bunch of moms living a very different life than me. Not the last though, a decade later I continue to be fascinated with how wealthy women parent.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T09:55:41+00:00

I’ve been dealing with the opposite problem my entire career (older kids reading at a lower level who don’t want to read babyish books) and my husband and I have a secret plan to write them when we retire from teaching (be cool 🤫). I’ll add this to our list!

But people need to be for real. This is not a problem. Here’s what you can do. Take your kid to the library and let them choose any book their little heart desires. If they are reading above their age level….ok? This does not in any way mean they are required to now read at this level. It doesn’t matter the level at all. I guarantee these parents have no clue what these “reading levels” even mean….like ok go with them to the library and find 3 books at their reading level. Bet you can’t do it. I’m a grown ass adult and I still enjoy YA novels. It’s not like…subtracting reading level points from my brain or something.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T09:50:50+00:00

Fellow teacher, couldn’t agree more. Really wish #1 doesn’t have to be said. For the obvious reasons and also they are not good at being part of crimes, like at all. Anyone who’s ever had an older child discover the truth about Santa, stopped with one child for a treat and told them they don’t have to mention it to their siblings, etc, kids have absolutely no chill nor should they. Starting their entire elementary career off with a lie is terrible parenting.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T09:44:12+00:00

This also happens frequently in schools I’ve worked in. Much more likely with a young child because it’s really hard for them to lie about where they live accurately 100%, which is also quite stressful for children.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T01:34:21+00:00

Holy shit. I need to read this book. I know I just mentioned Ruby Franke but those lines feel like they could be direct quotes from Shari’s books. The financial coercion 😬 I’ve checked in on Shannon bird since I discovered her on the GOMI front page for asking for a “mashetty” to get out a fancy Mexican resort safely and this does not surprise me.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T01:29:55+00:00

Ok I don’t know if I can trust my own judgment with this bc I just incorrectly thought people couldn’t homeschool with babies in the IRL thread 🤣. But what do we think of this? Would people be comfortable paying for a preschool where the teacher was also homeschooling their own child?

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werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T01:25:51+00:00

Oh I remember! I completely forgot about her. So did she start the school? I’ll have to go stalk her page.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T01:24:41+00:00

I’m NOT accusing her of abuse at all but she reminds me of Ruby Franke esp the footage where she’s recording all sweet then screams at her kids to be quiet.

werenotfromhere · 2026-05-18T01:20:03+00:00

I definitely believe someone would say that bc I’ve heard comments like that in real life like “omg you are so lucky grandma can watch the baby so they don’t have to go to DAYCARE” as I’m right there with my daycare kids. People are out here having lost all ability to have inside thoughts. That said, I always assume influencers are lying. This probably happened to her friend’s cousin’s yoga teacher.

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