In today's society, social media is a huge part in most people's daily lives. My husband doesn't have social media and once my daughter was born I started to retract away from it myself. This led us to the decision that we did not want to have pictures of her posted on any internet platforms. I had heard of these stories of people overseas stealing photos but we also came to our belief that our children should have the right to say what is posted about them. Down the road they could find it embarrassing or hurtful about some of the things posted about them.
Now.. some may think that it would be easy for our children not to be put on social media but it turned out to be a bigger task than we had expected. For ourselves personally it was simple. Our family however, was a totally different story. We began having these awkward conversations repeatedly about what our expectations are when it comes to social media. I kid you not when I say, the same 10 people would push the boundary and seemed to live by "Ask for forgiveness later". I can't begin to tell you how the feeling of betrayal can creep in and set roots.
When these are your children shouldn't others respect your parenting decisions? Why do I have to constantly be put in an awkward position about this?
It even got to a point where a family member told me that they purposely wouldn't take photos of my children because what's the point if they can't post it and would go as far as to avoid them or wait till they left the photo to take one of the group of people. This brought me to the realization that I couldn't live by others and their opinions. I don't have to conform my beliefs because you don't agree with them. This was mine and my husbands decision and if you don't like it than too bad.
At the end of the day I would just start shooting back at people telling them that I don't need to fill their desire of "bragging" how amazing they are with my children. They should find that peace within themselves and not by how many "LIKES" or "COMMENTS" people they hardly talk to give them on social media.
This experience has taught me that nobody will fully accept your decisions and even will judge you but I don't need to live through them. I'm my own person and I will lead my path.. NOT become a sheep.
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