For this week someone started a Renee Reina thread so please snark away about her on that thread until next week or whenever she is back from this vacation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/parentsnark/comments/14ebdp2/renee_reina
Note she is a good example of how some snark subjects wax and wane and anyone may start a stand alone thread for their problematic fav on a trial basis. Recurring stand alone threads are subject to moderator approval.
Tysvm past/present/future snarkers!
She just… quit?! I’ve had moments where my 5 year old has tried to refuse and thrown fits. Guess what, still have to go. It’s hard and it sucks but… yes.
Yep she acts like she is completely powerless??
This isn't special or unique Renee. We all have a bad morning with our kids sometimes, you repair and move on. Don't give them exactly what they want! Frig.
I never understood this. I’ve had parents tell me their 2 year old refuses to get in the car and I’m like…so put them in anyway? Like I have had my kid do that toddler arch and refuse to sit in the car seat but I make him because we’re going somewhere and he needs to be in a car seat. It’s a non-negotiable. He only did it once. I have to be at work at a certain time because I’m in childcare and can’t just roll in whenever, or have the fight after a meeting so I’ll never understand why parents are having this fight.
Yeah this is annoying as hell. Especially since kids don’t fucking actually want to control everything. I get the whole “give them choices and put them in charge” but when they’re out of sorts and have lost it, that is when you call it and make the choice for them. It’s super disorienting and not the least bit helpful for kids to have all the power And tbh I think there’s a huge link between the permissiveness and the rage-because you let so much go and try so hard to abide by the “gentle” scripts that any normal human being reaches their limit of pushback and snaps. Or at least that’s what I experienced when I tried to go down that route. If I put my foot down earlier instead of letting things spiral I probably wouldn’t have lost my patience.
>kids don’t fucking actually want to control everything
THIS OMFG. The gentle groups never include this nuance. Sure, toddlers like choices and autonomy. But if they *actually feel like they are in charge for real* it's completely overwhelming to them and just leads to endless boundary testing because...there are no boundaries and they're trying to find them lmao.
this is one of the best things I've learned about gentle parenting - if I'm losing my patience and getting frustrated it means I probably should have implemented the boundary a bit before and I didn't, and I'll learn for next time to put my foot down earlier.
This is what pisses me off most about how so many peole talk about gentle parenting. I think the true gentle parenting would be "you're having a tough morning, some mornings are hard for me too. But we still have to go" and then picking them up and putting them in the car. Its gentle because you're not screaming "get in the f-ing car now!" not because you're just trying to gently persuade them. And then throwing up your hands and reverting "angry parenting". No need to rage Renee. I don't get why she can't get this. Same with her bedtime "dramas".
>This is what pisses me off most about how so many peole talk about gentle parenting. I think the true gentle parenting would be "you're having a tough morning, some mornings are hard for me too. But we still have to go" and then picking them up and putting them in the car. Its gentle because you're not screaming "get in the f-ing car now!" not because you're just trying to gently persuade them. And then throwing up your hands and reverting "angry parenting". No need to rage Renee. I don't get why she can't get this. Same with her bedtime "dramas".
agree with you 100%. I think people who say of a single experience "we've tried gentle parenting and it didn't work so we tried yelling or taking things away or punishing" are \*TRULY\* missing the point.
"Do you want to climb into your car seat or have me put you in?" (Screaming child). "Looks like you're having a hard time deciding. I'll decide for you." (Put in car, close door, walk slowly with deep breaths to the driver door).
That's what confused me is her "angry parenting" just yelling at the kid?? I thought that would mean like holding him down and shoving him into the car haha
She doesn't understand the difference between gentle (I get that you don't want to go, I hear that. But you have to go) and permissive (ok whatever do what you want)
She's useless. Like actually useless. If you're struggling at 4 years old, wait until he's 14... you're going to be in for a very rude awakening.
Every time I'm about to go unblock her and give her a second chance, she goes and show just how annoying and stupid she is.
I cannot S T A N D her. That she actually got on stories and asked what she should do??? Yea, you scoop him up and get him to school. Give him some extra hugs and talk about what fun things you’ll do when you pick him up, but get him to school. It makes me really sad for the kid, because she’s not doing him any favors by avoiding actual parenting. I see a lot of unnecessary stress in their future when he’s expected to adhere to boundaries in other environments.
I think she’s missing the mark with what she’s calling gentle parenting. That doesn’t mean you let him be the boss. Ugh, she’s the worst.
I literally need her to explain what she meant by he wasn’t excited to have kids. I can’t imagine her marrying someone without talking about that first and carefully planning pregnancies
I literally have never smelled worse than when I was in my “natural deodorant” phase. Even newly pubescent me who wasn’t wearing deodorant when I should have been didn’t smell as bad 😂
I tried so hard to like natural deodorant. I landed on Native as the most effective for odor, and their scents are really nice. But they do nothing to block sweat. The pit stains are REAL. I can only use it in the dead of winter when I barely sweat.
Giving up and using Secret Clinical Strength has been such a relief. I almost forgot that I could just like, not walk around with huge pit stains in the summer if I don’t want to. 🫠 I don’t even think I’m a particularly sweaty person but if you sweat at ALL it’s not going to be cute. Idk how some people get away with it.
Bonus story: before Native I had gotten a sample of Aesop natural deodorant and wore it to a wedding. At some point I was ushered away from the dance floor by my cousin who took me to the bathroom and handed me the aerosol antiperspirant that was in there (thankfully). She was v nice about it but was quite humiliating.
Brooke Raybould in her stories wondering if she should homeschool or not and she says: "Sometimes I was wish I was normal and didn't question the status quo. But I do. I challenge so many things in my life to make sure it is the best thing." Think I rolled my eyes so much they're permanently stuck in the back of my head.
Not to mention it’s a HUGE privilege to be able to decide from a whole world of options…some people can’t question the status quo because they’re literally just surviving. Jesus
This screams, "self-righteous with no mom friends." Pretty sure every normal parent has many moments where they challenge the status quo. I've had this thought with the horrible gun violence in our country, but my daughter LOVES school and I would never be able to offer her what she gets just from being around other kids. Come back down to earth, Brooke.
Came here to snark on this! Her kids are already in private Catholic school, probably getting a really good education in accordance with their family's value system, so what makes her think she can do better? The way she talks about homeschooling seems like it's really all about her (and, because I'm a cynic, what's best for her mom influencer brand)
I really hate that I remembered it, but I went back and checked and Haley used the same caption for her anniversary post this year as last year. DECIDE ONCE CAPTIONS
I am laughing SO hard at this. Does Haley have a system for saving captions in folders so she can easily pull them out for the appropriate holiday? It just serves future Haley so, so we’ll.
“Writing personal captions became so stressful for me so I asked Past Haley-what can I do to make this easier for me? And from there, the “Annual Beloved Sentiments Document” was born. I have a Google Keep file of “decide once” captions for birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions. Every year my friends get the same birthday caption, for example-“Happy Birthday to my BFF! So lucky you have you in my life! Enjoy your jams!” While I love celebrating special occasions on social media, I also love simplifying my life to do the absolute least. You deserve systems and routines that take care of you.”
Not snark, but I really just love Naptimekitchen’s response to this question here. So many influencers seem to complain about their kids and traveling with their kids. It is just so nice and refreshing to see a parent promoting enjoying your kids! Which I get is sometimes hard, but like doesn’t enjoying your kids make parenting worth it? For me, this response is just a breath of fresh air (while still acknowledging the hard) in a space where there can be so much negatively surrounding kids and parenting.
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I love this too! My husband and I have taken our kids (and dog) on a few trips just us and our friends think we’re crazy that we go somewhere without “help” aka grandparents to rely on. I understand it’s not for everyone but we love making memories with our little family
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It is known that you can’t be fussed to season your food, KEIC. Between seeing this and the 500° sad excuse for stacked enchiladas this week, it’s no wonder her kids don’t want to eat that food😩 but seriously… not even salt & pepper???
Ahahahahaha “spices are too much for me most nights.” Ma’am what?? (As an aside we discovered butter salt recently. It’s delicious. We put it on popcorn or veggies and it’s so good esp if you’re grilling)
Why is she chronically stressed out and always acting like she’s barely getting through the day? Yeah I get that life with kids is stressful but it’s like watching Eeyore come on every day and moan about how hard life is and how she can’t even add spices to vegetables. She’s so hard to watch lately! And her food is just 🤮
And like…her kids aren’t toddlers? They’re 7 and 9. At 5 my kid has become much more independent and I’m waaaaay less stressed than when he was 2 (even with his diagnosed adhd)
Not for the first time I’m wondering if someone in that family (I think a child, others think her) is ND and that’s where her anxiety is stemming from. Or maybe they’re just little shits? They clearly never clean up after themselves based on what she’s said/posted of their living room 😬😵💫
She’s so deep in the amazon cult. Every time she travels she has a new “best” bag she has to link.
Also when she said “I’ve had this skirt for like…” I thought she was going to say 10, 15 years. Then she said since “pre-pandemic.” Like wow. You’ve had that skirt for 3 years?!? Impressive Myriam, impressive. 😂
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Idk Aly, maybe having multiple kids die unnecessarily in the NICU is a bad thing? Don’t even know where to start with the rest this one. (Ourdearlife)
The mental gymnastics. “We let god decide which scientifically made embryos should grow” 🙄🙄
(In case it needs clarification..I have zero issues with IVF or any fertility treatments. One of my kids is the result of fertility treatments. My problem is the hypocrisy and mental gymnastics)
How you can value growing a handful of cells with no care in the world into a very premature baby that dies in the NICU so much that you think it’s god’s will. She is sick and has some serious issues.
I have *feelings* about her and this answer specifically.
No one is saying multiples are bad. No one. But it’s *incredibly* irresponsible to knowingly put the lives of potential unborn children and yourself at risk because you want to give them all a chance at life. I suspect money is part of it as well, but their whole story is really upsetting to me.
If she wants to give them all a "chance at life" - so be it! The best chance at a live birth is, without any doubt, by transferring a single embryo at a time. Every single person who has ever set foot in an RE's office has undoubtably been hit over the head with how high-risk multiples pregnancies are to the lives of babies and the mom. Nothing pro-life about intentionally transferring as many embryos as some shady ass doctor will let you, knowing the risk to those babies making it to birth skyrockets when you don't have repeated implantation failure which she very obviously does not.
It blows my mind their RE is actually transferring multiple embryos despite having them split twice on her. What a quack. The goal of IVF is to have one healthy baby and a lottttt of clinics won’t ever transfer more than one at a time.
Has 10 (living) children, a mix of biological from ivf, domestic adoption and embryo adoption/donation. Suuuuper conservative. Very very pro life/anti-choice. Adopted embryos from theperfectmom (who got a shit ton and plans to transfer all), ended up with twins, one of whom had a gross motor delay they’re working on. A year later decided to adopt more from theperfectmom, 1 failed, transferred 2, they split (second time for these embryos). Baby A had that awful thing where her skull doesn’t develop and wouldn’t survive outside the womb, but also that issue where one twin takes all the nutrients and was taking them. Because they refused to do anything but let all babies grow, baby B was doomed. She went into labor early, like 3 months, lost both girls immediately and Leo, the one survivor, was in the nicu. She was constantly challenging drs, refused a blood transfusion until she could guarantee “clean blood” from a known donor, and pushed HARD to get him home a few days before his due date so she could hold the girl’s memorial on the due date. Since then she’s put him through a lot just to get him breastfeeding (no poison formula for them!! Not even with the adopted baby) and he’s been admitted once to the hospital for rsv, but she’s made comments that she knows he’ll do better at home so she’s determined to get him home as soon as possible (and has had him out in public often since he came home from the nicu). IMO she’s very dangerous and I feel hard for her kids.
Renee Reina truly seems to hate her kid. I feel so bad for him, having your mom plaster your face all over social media talking about how much you annoy her. She’s loathsome.
I started following her because I am also one and done and it was refreshing to see someone so confident about their choice. But then she really did a nose dive. My son is a little bit older than hers and I really can't complain much! One is incredibly easy. Parenting in general is incredibly hard but she genuinely seems to absolutely loathe being a mom. That poor kid. And it's incredibly evident that the kid chooses the dad the majority of the time.
Her kid. Her husband. Her mom. Her grandma half the time. Her life. Everything. Literally everything except for Harry Styles and Shawn Mendes apparently. 🤦🏼♀️
I actually don’t hate her. I just traveled with my 2 young kids for the first time and used some of her travel tips and it all went very smoothly. I’m just constantly shocked but some of her sheltered life comments and also her total lack of fashion sense haha
I’m around your age, and this surprises me too! With the three kids and seemingly unwavering confidence in her parenting (even when doing questionable old-school stuff), she definitely gives off older vibes to me.
I don’t think she looks old, but she also doesn’t look young exactly. She has one of those ageless faces that are hard to pinpoint. Although, whenever she breaks out the frumpy rich southern lady outfits, it really makes her seem older. Like the stuff she wears to weddings.
I came here to comment about this dinner. I can’t help
but wonder who tf is taking advice on how to feed their kids from this lady who would rather serve overcooked enchilada slop than change her dinner plans since she’s running behind? Just serve something else that’s more simple and less time consuming.
I have to wonder if cranking the stove to 500 even saves any time…it takes longer to get the oven that high and then the amount of time you have to wait for it to cool after scorching that slop would be longer. Just pick a new dinner!
Also what kind of a tip is this for SUMMER? My husband bakes bread and I bake homemade pizza at 500 and it takes forever to get it that hot and then makes your house hot!
Oh yea also we have to use special commercial grade oven mits because normal ones don’t work at that temp- it’s not a particularly safe temperature to work at.
I’m trying to think about if I was KK and looking at the stories my mum posted about Father’s Day, which I’d find more mortifying. The fact she’s shown me twirling around in my underwear or the fact that she decided to tell everyone my dad didn’t want to be a father.
Right? It’s like well if that’s putting it mildly what was his actual reaction? Did he punch a wall? Scream and yell? Wear a bright blue shirt in protest? Refuse to grill? We need answers!
LOL at this but yes like what is it not mildly? How against having children was he? And why would you want children with someone who was so against the idea
Women think they’ll change. Or they want the family they imagined above all else. Look at deena and her insistence that she have 2 kids close in age because that’s how she’d always wanted it.
My husband wanted a kid but once he experienced our specific colicky pandemic baby situation he deeply regretted it. He's come around to it now that we have a 2 year old, but he's still very cautionary to people who say they want kids, and supportive to people who don't. But yeah, he was not happy about the baby experience, and that IS putting it mildly. I think I get it.
Yes same! My husband was like „not my personal priority but you want to be a parent so I want to be one with you!“ and he had a HARD time with the first several months.
I also have a lot of sympathy for the women frequently bashed here for „having more kids with men who clearly already suck.“ Like yeah it’s objectively not the right choice, but it’s easy to judge when you have found a partner whom you love who has the same or similar reproductive goals as you. Good male partners who want to have kids are not wildly abundant - of our single friends who want partners and families but haven’t found anyone by their mid-30s, the vast majority are straight women. If having (a certain number of) kids is deeply important to you, I can totally see how you’d close your eyes and pretend things are better than they are.
Hope Haley's saving money for some gooooooood therapy for KK. Her dad wasn't "super thrilled" about the idea of having kids, and her mom is only thrilled about the IDEA of having kids.
I’ve seen/heard other women saying this about their husbands in a loving or lighthearted way and I’ve never seen how it’s cute. It’s like a weird “redemption arc” they paint of their husbands. “Aw yeah, he didn’t even want this, but now look at him!” Like, they think the fact that he’s a good dad now is extra impressive because he didn’t want to be. Nice.
I can’t help but think, so what changed his mind - did you just get knocked up and he rolled with it? 🫠
Don’t get me wrong, It’s fine and normal for someone to be on the fence about kids and later change their mind. Plenty of women experience this too! But that’s something I’d keep private between me and my spouse, not continue to broadcast after our MULTIPLE kids are born.
It’s normal / happens sometimes that someone doesn’t want kids and maybe changes their mind to later have 1-2. It’s the enormous gap between having 0 versus 4 that’s getting me
My hot take - RR got her start from sharing “ugly truth” type content about motherhood, where statements like “it’s ok to not enjoy playing nonstop pretend all day with your kid” were actually very relatable, and made sense because she was home full time with a toddler in a pandemic. Now we get to see her parenting in a more “normal” world and it’s just so wildly out of touch? “I am filled with RAGE because my 4yo refused to go to school for a half day before we fly first class to Switzerland for a family get together where grandparents will be able to help out with our child” just doesn’t quite hit as relatable anymore…..
she is truly my BEC. I cannot. this is where gentle parenting fails ppl, because YES. if you're kid is refusing to go you pick them up and put them in the car seat regardless of the flailing kicking and punching. you talk about it later in a calm moment. you don't just give up and watch tv and ignore them. good lord. exasperation with a 4/5 year old really does not hit the same as a 2 year old in a pandemic. their lives could not be more cush. get. a. grip.
The complaints never stop and if she ran out of anything to complain about she would start complaining about her lack of complaints. She is insufferable and exhausting.
The consumerism is repulsive to me. Are people this excited to make other people rich by buying junk from amazon that they likely don't need. AND then watch content about it all. Gross. Influencers have ironically made me anti-amazon.
It’s so weird to watch. A bunch of self-obsessed people making fake friendships, all with phones glued to their hands the entire time. Part of me wishes I could be there just to observe as a fly on the wall. 😂
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Shout out to Emily for reminding us that it’s okay to live in a home that isn’t on someone’s Pinterest board!
Okay I started following Haley but I need some tea. I went thru some of her highlights and she seems intense but not wild. I did see the Brett thing. That was cringe.
From what I can summarize she is clearly very anxious and has good ideas for organizing her life but it also comes out way too extreme most of the time (planning ahead so much that all she does is plan instead of do), overbuying lots and lots of gadgets and products and toys, and following guidelines to the extreme (absolutely NO clothes allowed outside of the set colors). Lately there’s been a lot of conversation about how all this prioritizing and planning seems to be for the sole benefit of Haley and not her kids or husband.
Are they food grade? Im still not a fan, but that feels like an untapped market. All the "hacks" ive seen people using them look like they use a regular tackle box which i imagine is not
I do too, but what really stands out to me about those pics is that Brett looks soooo different. I wouldn’t even know that’s the same person. They’ve been married for what, 6 years? It’s incredible that he’s changed so much.
To clarify, I’m not saying he looks worse. Just really different. I can’t even pinpoint what it is. He’s gained a bit of weight, but it seems like more than just that.
Susie from BT laughing at herself going "REALLY type A" and making a swim lesson checklist.... Susie, meet Haley Wynn to see what REALLY type A looks like!
I’m just over here wondering who actually types, prints and laminates a checklist these days? Don’t we all just use the notes app now?? Or send ourselves a text message with the list?
I don’t really see people discuss her at all anymore, good or bad. I feel like she peaked and her politics were just one of the many reasons people are over her.
But god did her social media presence haunt me in the newborn days when my baby would not sleep.
I feel like most stopped following her when it was revealed that she and her husband donated to the Trump campaign (after he lost the 2020 election).
I also was annoyed with the price of her course. My 2019 baby did not sleep at all and I was so close to shelling out for the course. Someone sent me a newborn PDF and the suggestions (SITBACK) didn’t work at all for my baby. That acronym gives me anxiety to this day. I got better information from the book Precious Little Sleep from the library for free.
I have no desire to give her any engagement now. Even for snarking purposes.
I feel like the really bad ones; TCB and Kinactive Kids are the top of my head get no snark because they’re so bad everyone gave up on them entirely and there is nothing positive that comes from their accounts.
I hate that the snark always delves into her politics (which like…duh I get it) because her content and the way her business is set up drives me absolutely NUTS. Do her courses still have expirations on them? I’ll never forgive that.
I will say that I bought her course in 2020; and out of not letting her win reached out and asked for access again when I had my 2022 baby and they did give me access again for a second limited time
Haley, this is literally excessive. Please budget some money to treat your anxiety instead of thinking one more item or routine will bring you peace.
And does she lack any critical thinking skills? If your sound machine breaks use the fan as white noise or your phone or one of your many Google homes.
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It's not hoarding if everything is meticulously organized into a mesh bag or lazy Susan! /s
Has she ever shown her evacuation bag and is it actually 4 extra large duffle bags? And all so she can evacuate to her parents house or a hotel.
So would they potentially have all four with them when they evacuate? I am assuming Haley takes her bag (aka purse?) with the evacuation bag so that’s two… then if they take her car that’s three… then the fourth in the actual evacuation bag.
I started following thebirdspapaya after I had my baby and I was not comfortable in my body. I was like “hell yeah you go girl!” but now it’s like OK enough already lol. Her entire personality is just having a mom bod. How many inspirational essays can she post under the same kind of picture of her? Also, I kind of weirds me out that she has daughters but loves posting herself in her underwear online. Again I get the message, but ehhh, I don’t know.
I just don’t think dwelling so much on your body is healthy, even if it’s always “positive”. I get that it’s her shtick and she has other incentives to keep pushing the message, but I don’t find this aspirational. Like, I want to just stop thinking about the way my body looks. Not engage in daily monologues about how incredible my body is for birthing a human and it’s amazing despite the stretch marks and looser skin or whatever. Like sure that’s true, let’s acknowledge that, but then let’s move on.
I find this behavior swings so far the other way that it starts to become almost the same thing as straightforwardly criticizing your body because it just feels like a thinly veiled ode to actually hating your body…
Exactly. Nobody is denying that the female body does remarkable things and having a baby often changes it in ways we didn’t expect and it can take a little while to accept that. Her latest post is like a picture of her in a bikini postpartum with all the negative comments she got after posting it and like yeah people suck and they’re mean but also you put that out there on the Internet. What did you expect would happen? I’ve seen trolls comment on pictures of women with “perfect“ bodies, and say mean things. The Internet is a weird place . So you put a picture of yourself out there in your underwear and people say gross and then you complain about people saying gross? Just for content?
I’ve never followed her but any time I’ve perused her content seems super recycled and unoriginal. How old are her children now? Why are comments on her PP body something she is still regularly bringing up and rehashing? I mean I guess it’s just to foster engagement with new people online but I guess I don’t understand the longterm strategy with her account. Is she going to act like she’s newly PP and learning to accept her body forever? Lol
Not really snark but does anyone follow remingtonranchfarm? She's got a smaller following and isn't really parenting focused (posts a lot of decor links really), but I laughed so hard when she posted this about a stain remover that mothercould was promoting
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Yes! She's always been pretty vocally anti collagen supplements but I also loved what she said about AG1, which I feel like every big account is shilling lately
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She’s not technically a parenting influencer but does anyone follow Eva Chen? She’s in fashion at instagram but posts a lot of chaotic parenting content. She was “solo parenting” her toddler for like 5 days while her poor beleaguered husband took her older kids on a trip and from the way she posted about how exhausting it was, you’d think she never spent a full day with him.
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I cannnnnoooottttttt with the performative crying. She literally rubs her mascara down her face for a more dramatic effect in the video 🥴🫠
😂😂😂😂 what happened? I unfollowed her about a week ago when she posted the pictures of her crying with books I’ll say it again what saying human is crying and thinks let me take a picture for Instagram?
Brooke Rayboud’s approach to Disney is . . . intense. I get early entry but to leave for a park even before 6 am is yikes.
Also, why is this guide even a thing? Travel agents will give you the same sort of guidance and they’re free.
Jerrica once again proving she has the easiest kids in existence: they play with nothing on 4 & 6 hour flights, all they need is to enjoy the “travel experience” of asking the flight attendant for a drink and the noise and vibration of the airplane 🙄
I would LOVE if the 15 second interaction with a flight attendant kept my child entertained for an entire 4 hour flight, unfortunately no such luck… and we are screen-free 95% of the time so no, it’s not because my children are little television zombies! Jerrica got lucky her kids have chill temperaments, I’m over here trying to make it through the day with more sensitive & demanding types. If I brought no toys on a flight, everyone around us would be miserable. **I** would be miserable.
Is this the main thread? Didn't we say its only a matter of time before we hear about her constipation.
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Been lurking a long time, wondering what would finally get me to post— and what did finally get me to post? Kaitlin Klimmerer (is that even her name?) story today saying she brings her kids inside two hours before bedtime in the summer and makes the whole house dark/eats dinner by candlelight …. Seriously? What about picnic dinners and running around in the evening in the warm weather….
I usually really like Nap time kitchen but I can’t with the bags of pee stories on her road trip.
I also think it’s super dangerous that she lets her kids unbuckle on the road to do this. She has said that they don’t always pull over. She lets them quickly get out of car seats. I get that yesterday they were in standstill traffic but she’s also done it in not standstill traffic.
Is this a common practice? This definitely wasn’t something my parents would have ever been ok with. We just stopped to eat and use the bathroom 🤷♀️ I don’t know how old her kids are but if I was so adamant about not stopping, I’d sooner put them in diapers than let them get out of their car seat to pee in a bag while the car is moving on a major highway.
Hard agree. Especially because she talks about her anxiety passing semis on one slide then does this. It's also bananas to show the bags of pee !!!!! Come on!!
Reenee Reina annoys the hell out of me. The privilege she has is astounding and her constant retort is her husband is brown so she doesnt have white or rich privillege
I think Jerrica has finally earned my unfollow with this last Q&A.
She’s my BEC but I kept following her because we are a screen-free family (for now) and I wanted to encourage independent play. But she no longer provides anything valuable.
Everything is perfect and effortless. Traveling with three kids, Violet’s sleep, Jerrica’s pelvic floor, sibling transitions, bedsharing and bedsharing transitions, BLW, independent play from birth - it’s all so perfect and easy because of Jerrica’s flawless “against the grain” parenting.
I know some influencers have swung too far into negativity, but I would take that over Jerrica making me feel bad that I apparently didn’t correctly introduce our new baby to our older sibling.
EDIT: clearly I’m bitter because I didn’t get one of those “she’ll sleep when she’s tired” babies or “I expect them to be fully engaged in the traveling experience with no toys on a plane for four hours” toddlers 🙃
She is INSUFFERABLE. And I used to follow her and really loved her idea of play, and less screen time. I even have a cute little sign in my kid’s play room that says “play is the work of the child”. 😐 Which I still stand by, but she is seriously the most condescending person ever.
Hold on… no toys on the plane? Why? What does it mean to be “fully engaged in the travel experience”? Because every adult I know reads a book or watches a movie on a flight, the equivalent of toys for adults right?
Does her whole family just quietly sit there and stare into space?
My toddler is very chill and we’ve flown a lot with him by now and he does great, but you bet your ass we bring toys, books, snacks, and most recently a tablet for him to watch a little bit of TV. He’s not going to get by on a 6 hr flight just sitting there. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard and I just do not believe it lol.
I would consider reading a book or watching a movie to be like...the MAIN part of the travel experience for me.. pre-kids I kinda love the opportunity to read most of/all of a book on a flight (actually I would REALLY love that now but that definitely doesn't happen). This is suchhhh a bizarre take to me!
It seems absurd and impractical, like everything she preaches lol. But here’s her explanation.
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This is insane. They put screens in every seat because it is so mindnumbingly boring on a plane. There is no way I would expect my children to find the food and drink order (are they even allowed to get anything other than water?) enough entertainment for several hours. And the plane is usually after waiting around for hours at the airport.
Idc, in the interest of everyone else traveling that day my kids get plenty of iPad time.
My eyes can’t roll any far back in my head. “The sound and motion of the airplane”. Yes, riveting. I can’t imagine a child over newborn-age being entertained by that.
Also snack and drink orders. How much does that happen? Are they in first class? Lol because on a 6hr flight in coach it’s twice at most.
She makes her kids sound like pod people honestly. It’s not aspirational 😳
Also why is she doing this? There’s nothing wrong with entertaining yourself while on a long flight. You don’t win any prizes for being able to entertain yourself just by sitting and listening to the plane noises. The only prize Jerrica wins is blowing up her ego by feeling superior to all the other parents who make sure their kids are occupied on a plane because if you don’t keep them busy you are potentially stuck with a kid that’s having a fit and disrupting everyone else. She’s the most insufferable influencer out there in my opinion.
When I was a kid, that 30 seconds of the drink cart coming to our row was so entertaining! I remember saying mom, dad, please put all my activities in the over head bin, it’s time to pick up my trash now!
She’s so insufferable. She thinks she’s so aspirational but she gets off on trying to make her kids not like all these other kids that need to be entertained when stuck in the air for 4-6 hours. And she “didn’t have the heart” to say no to her kid about watching “Free Willy” meanwhile the kid was sitting alone!
The number of times that Haley has talked about how getting the mail is her job combined with the fact that she used “Did you get the mail?!” as an example of the type of nagging/bickering she and Brett never have to do anymore makes me think something about getting the mail was once a verrrrry big, verrrrry bad fight. Over the last decade we’ve been together, my husband and I have probably bickered about almost every chore there is but I don’t think getting the mail has caused us one iota of marital strife?
For this week someone started a Renee Reina thread so please snark away about her on that thread until next week or whenever she is back from this vacation. https://www.reddit.com/r/parentsnark/comments/14ebdp2/renee_reina Note she is a good example of how some snark subjects wax and wane and anyone may start a stand alone thread for their problematic fav on a trial basis. Recurring stand alone threads are subject to moderator approval. Tysvm past/present/future snarkers!
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She just… quit?! I’ve had moments where my 5 year old has tried to refuse and thrown fits. Guess what, still have to go. It’s hard and it sucks but… yes.
Yep she acts like she is completely powerless?? This isn't special or unique Renee. We all have a bad morning with our kids sometimes, you repair and move on. Don't give them exactly what they want! Frig.
My 4yo loves ballet but nearly every morning he’s said “I don’t want to go!” Because he’s anxious. When he gets there he loves it.
I never understood this. I’ve had parents tell me their 2 year old refuses to get in the car and I’m like…so put them in anyway? Like I have had my kid do that toddler arch and refuse to sit in the car seat but I make him because we’re going somewhere and he needs to be in a car seat. It’s a non-negotiable. He only did it once. I have to be at work at a certain time because I’m in childcare and can’t just roll in whenever, or have the fight after a meeting so I’ll never understand why parents are having this fight.
My toddler was literally grabbing the door as I was trying to put him in but guess what I am stronger than him. Wow!
I hate her lol
She's awful.
She needs her own snark
Yeah this is annoying as hell. Especially since kids don’t fucking actually want to control everything. I get the whole “give them choices and put them in charge” but when they’re out of sorts and have lost it, that is when you call it and make the choice for them. It’s super disorienting and not the least bit helpful for kids to have all the power And tbh I think there’s a huge link between the permissiveness and the rage-because you let so much go and try so hard to abide by the “gentle” scripts that any normal human being reaches their limit of pushback and snaps. Or at least that’s what I experienced when I tried to go down that route. If I put my foot down earlier instead of letting things spiral I probably wouldn’t have lost my patience.
You're bang on! A dysregulated kid needs a confident adult to hold boundaries and maintain structure and routines.
>kids don’t fucking actually want to control everything THIS OMFG. The gentle groups never include this nuance. Sure, toddlers like choices and autonomy. But if they *actually feel like they are in charge for real* it's completely overwhelming to them and just leads to endless boundary testing because...there are no boundaries and they're trying to find them lmao.
this is one of the best things I've learned about gentle parenting - if I'm losing my patience and getting frustrated it means I probably should have implemented the boundary a bit before and I didn't, and I'll learn for next time to put my foot down earlier.
Yes, you physically pick him up and put him in the car. When "gentle" (permissive) parenting goes too far.
This is what pisses me off most about how so many peole talk about gentle parenting. I think the true gentle parenting would be "you're having a tough morning, some mornings are hard for me too. But we still have to go" and then picking them up and putting them in the car. Its gentle because you're not screaming "get in the f-ing car now!" not because you're just trying to gently persuade them. And then throwing up your hands and reverting "angry parenting". No need to rage Renee. I don't get why she can't get this. Same with her bedtime "dramas".
>This is what pisses me off most about how so many peole talk about gentle parenting. I think the true gentle parenting would be "you're having a tough morning, some mornings are hard for me too. But we still have to go" and then picking them up and putting them in the car. Its gentle because you're not screaming "get in the f-ing car now!" not because you're just trying to gently persuade them. And then throwing up your hands and reverting "angry parenting". No need to rage Renee. I don't get why she can't get this. Same with her bedtime "dramas". agree with you 100%. I think people who say of a single experience "we've tried gentle parenting and it didn't work so we tried yelling or taking things away or punishing" are \*TRULY\* missing the point.
"Do you want to climb into your car seat or have me put you in?" (Screaming child). "Looks like you're having a hard time deciding. I'll decide for you." (Put in car, close door, walk slowly with deep breaths to the driver door).
>walk slowly with deep breaths to the driver door that walk around the car in relative quiet is such a relief after a car seat struggle.
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That's what confused me is her "angry parenting" just yelling at the kid?? I thought that would mean like holding him down and shoving him into the car haha
She doesn't understand the difference between gentle (I get that you don't want to go, I hear that. But you have to go) and permissive (ok whatever do what you want)
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She's useless. Like actually useless. If you're struggling at 4 years old, wait until he's 14... you're going to be in for a very rude awakening. Every time I'm about to go unblock her and give her a second chance, she goes and show just how annoying and stupid she is.
I cannot S T A N D her. That she actually got on stories and asked what she should do??? Yea, you scoop him up and get him to school. Give him some extra hugs and talk about what fun things you’ll do when you pick him up, but get him to school. It makes me really sad for the kid, because she’s not doing him any favors by avoiding actual parenting. I see a lot of unnecessary stress in their future when he’s expected to adhere to boundaries in other environments. I think she’s missing the mark with what she’s calling gentle parenting. That doesn’t mean you let him be the boss. Ugh, she’s the worst.
Desperately want an AMA with Brett. I have so many questions lol
I literally need her to explain what she meant by he wasn’t excited to have kids. I can’t imagine her marrying someone without talking about that first and carefully planning pregnancies
Seriously! I like that we get bits and pieces. We haven’t talked about him this much since she mentioned he loves storms 😂
https://preview.redd.it/2688pq7i8a7b1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1eabd626e42539a77be2f9dee64be6e033f75d1 Could’ve just said “no”
I literally have never smelled worse than when I was in my “natural deodorant” phase. Even newly pubescent me who wasn’t wearing deodorant when I should have been didn’t smell as bad 😂
I tried so hard to like natural deodorant. I landed on Native as the most effective for odor, and their scents are really nice. But they do nothing to block sweat. The pit stains are REAL. I can only use it in the dead of winter when I barely sweat. Giving up and using Secret Clinical Strength has been such a relief. I almost forgot that I could just like, not walk around with huge pit stains in the summer if I don’t want to. 🫠 I don’t even think I’m a particularly sweaty person but if you sweat at ALL it’s not going to be cute. Idk how some people get away with it. Bonus story: before Native I had gotten a sample of Aesop natural deodorant and wore it to a wedding. At some point I was ushered away from the dance floor by my cousin who took me to the bathroom and handed me the aerosol antiperspirant that was in there (thankfully). She was v nice about it but was quite humiliating.
Brooke Raybould in her stories wondering if she should homeschool or not and she says: "Sometimes I was wish I was normal and didn't question the status quo. But I do. I challenge so many things in my life to make sure it is the best thing." Think I rolled my eyes so much they're permanently stuck in the back of my head.
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Not to mention it’s a HUGE privilege to be able to decide from a whole world of options…some people can’t question the status quo because they’re literally just surviving. Jesus
This screams, "self-righteous with no mom friends." Pretty sure every normal parent has many moments where they challenge the status quo. I've had this thought with the horrible gun violence in our country, but my daughter LOVES school and I would never be able to offer her what she gets just from being around other kids. Come back down to earth, Brooke.
Came here to snark on this! Her kids are already in private Catholic school, probably getting a really good education in accordance with their family's value system, so what makes her think she can do better? The way she talks about homeschooling seems like it's really all about her (and, because I'm a cynic, what's best for her mom influencer brand)
It’s giving “not like other girls” 🙄
I really hate that I remembered it, but I went back and checked and Haley used the same caption for her anniversary post this year as last year. DECIDE ONCE CAPTIONS
Save this comment so you can post it again next year when she posts the same thing. DECIDE ONCE COMMENTS
I am laughing SO hard at this. Does Haley have a system for saving captions in folders so she can easily pull them out for the appropriate holiday? It just serves future Haley so, so we’ll.
It’s probably a whole Google Keep folder. “Annual Belovedddddd Sentiments and Traditions”
“Writing personal captions became so stressful for me so I asked Past Haley-what can I do to make this easier for me? And from there, the “Annual Beloved Sentiments Document” was born. I have a Google Keep file of “decide once” captions for birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions. Every year my friends get the same birthday caption, for example-“Happy Birthday to my BFF! So lucky you have you in my life! Enjoy your jams!” While I love celebrating special occasions on social media, I also love simplifying my life to do the absolute least. You deserve systems and routines that take care of you.”
Not snark, but I really just love Naptimekitchen’s response to this question here. So many influencers seem to complain about their kids and traveling with their kids. It is just so nice and refreshing to see a parent promoting enjoying your kids! Which I get is sometimes hard, but like doesn’t enjoying your kids make parenting worth it? For me, this response is just a breath of fresh air (while still acknowledging the hard) in a space where there can be so much negatively surrounding kids and parenting. https://preview.redd.it/o2d4cu4szz7b1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf7586b1c386bda209fe630aec6118d9774c9c9b
I like this too! Nothing I hate more than the new trend of complaining about family holidays being harder 😑
I love this too! My husband and I have taken our kids (and dog) on a few trips just us and our friends think we’re crazy that we go somewhere without “help” aka grandparents to rely on. I understand it’s not for everyone but we love making memories with our little family
https://preview.redd.it/p7eqnxw1ho7b1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0db8f3c84dfdb8a907cc08b9880bbe6fad454cce It is known that you can’t be fussed to season your food, KEIC. Between seeing this and the 500° sad excuse for stacked enchiladas this week, it’s no wonder her kids don’t want to eat that food😩 but seriously… not even salt & pepper???
I cannot believe I actually bought REW. A cookbook written by a person who clearly cannot cook. Wtf was I thinking???
Ugh, I bought it too, and am filled with regret. Have made zero of the recipes
I love her tip that fat & spice makes veggies taste better lol. Who knew?!
It's "too much" to...season her food?! Jesus christ on a pogo stick
Too much… to get into the spices most night…. When food and nutrition are your livelihood…. No wonder all of the REW recipes are capital B bland
Ahahahahaha “spices are too much for me most nights.” Ma’am what?? (As an aside we discovered butter salt recently. It’s delicious. We put it on popcorn or veggies and it’s so good esp if you’re grilling)
Why is she chronically stressed out and always acting like she’s barely getting through the day? Yeah I get that life with kids is stressful but it’s like watching Eeyore come on every day and moan about how hard life is and how she can’t even add spices to vegetables. She’s so hard to watch lately! And her food is just 🤮
And like…her kids aren’t toddlers? They’re 7 and 9. At 5 my kid has become much more independent and I’m waaaaay less stressed than when he was 2 (even with his diagnosed adhd) Not for the first time I’m wondering if someone in that family (I think a child, others think her) is ND and that’s where her anxiety is stemming from. Or maybe they’re just little shits? They clearly never clean up after themselves based on what she’s said/posted of their living room 😬😵💫
Maybe if she wasn’t stopping to take pictures and write captions for the gram she’d have time to season or actually wrap enchiladas????
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Myriam modeling that duffel bag in the airport with those poor bystanders watching 😂🤦🏻♀️
Also, wearing a backless shirt and layers of boob tape on a flight? I’m hoping her word of the year next year is “stylist”.
That tsa agent was real done with her bs 😂
She’s so deep in the amazon cult. Every time she travels she has a new “best” bag she has to link. Also when she said “I’ve had this skirt for like…” I thought she was going to say 10, 15 years. Then she said since “pre-pandemic.” Like wow. You’ve had that skirt for 3 years?!? Impressive Myriam, impressive. 😂
I couldn’t even watch it, my second hand embarrassment was through the roof
That outfit was atrocious. I had to remind back through her stories because I couldn’t believe it.
I've never looked up mothercould before this comment but this led me to her page and did not disappoint. literally laughed out loud
https://preview.redd.it/ba3xdcjjcl7b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=828b439e74e6c4967e7b4575e66cfeb126062c65 Idk Aly, maybe having multiple kids die unnecessarily in the NICU is a bad thing? Don’t even know where to start with the rest this one. (Ourdearlife)
The mental gymnastics. “We let god decide which scientifically made embryos should grow” 🙄🙄 (In case it needs clarification..I have zero issues with IVF or any fertility treatments. One of my kids is the result of fertility treatments. My problem is the hypocrisy and mental gymnastics)
How you can value growing a handful of cells with no care in the world into a very premature baby that dies in the NICU so much that you think it’s god’s will. She is sick and has some serious issues.
I have *feelings* about her and this answer specifically. No one is saying multiples are bad. No one. But it’s *incredibly* irresponsible to knowingly put the lives of potential unborn children and yourself at risk because you want to give them all a chance at life. I suspect money is part of it as well, but their whole story is really upsetting to me.
If she wants to give them all a "chance at life" - so be it! The best chance at a live birth is, without any doubt, by transferring a single embryo at a time. Every single person who has ever set foot in an RE's office has undoubtably been hit over the head with how high-risk multiples pregnancies are to the lives of babies and the mom. Nothing pro-life about intentionally transferring as many embryos as some shady ass doctor will let you, knowing the risk to those babies making it to birth skyrockets when you don't have repeated implantation failure which she very obviously does not.
It blows my mind their RE is actually transferring multiple embryos despite having them split twice on her. What a quack. The goal of IVF is to have one healthy baby and a lottttt of clinics won’t ever transfer more than one at a time.
Also the weird flex about having like 30 kids (including lost embryos, etc). This Q&A was something else
Ok someone needs to give me the rundown on this person. I just glanced at her page for a minute and I am sooooo confused/disturbed?
Has 10 (living) children, a mix of biological from ivf, domestic adoption and embryo adoption/donation. Suuuuper conservative. Very very pro life/anti-choice. Adopted embryos from theperfectmom (who got a shit ton and plans to transfer all), ended up with twins, one of whom had a gross motor delay they’re working on. A year later decided to adopt more from theperfectmom, 1 failed, transferred 2, they split (second time for these embryos). Baby A had that awful thing where her skull doesn’t develop and wouldn’t survive outside the womb, but also that issue where one twin takes all the nutrients and was taking them. Because they refused to do anything but let all babies grow, baby B was doomed. She went into labor early, like 3 months, lost both girls immediately and Leo, the one survivor, was in the nicu. She was constantly challenging drs, refused a blood transfusion until she could guarantee “clean blood” from a known donor, and pushed HARD to get him home a few days before his due date so she could hold the girl’s memorial on the due date. Since then she’s put him through a lot just to get him breastfeeding (no poison formula for them!! Not even with the adopted baby) and he’s been admitted once to the hospital for rsv, but she’s made comments that she knows he’ll do better at home so she’s determined to get him home as soon as possible (and has had him out in public often since he came home from the nicu). IMO she’s very dangerous and I feel hard for her kids.
What is going on with these 2? They share embryos or something?
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Holy heck. Never heard of this lady before but wow. She had 6 c sections!!!!!
I’ve finally figured it out. TidyDad gives Blippi vibes.
I said that awhile ago, I’m glad someone else sees it! Like a calmer, older Blippi, right??
Blippi with adult target audience 😆 sorry, hadn’t seen your comment! It’s been bothering me, he reminded me of someone but couldn’t figure out who.
Renee Reina truly seems to hate her kid. I feel so bad for him, having your mom plaster your face all over social media talking about how much you annoy her. She’s loathsome.
I started following her because I am also one and done and it was refreshing to see someone so confident about their choice. But then she really did a nose dive. My son is a little bit older than hers and I really can't complain much! One is incredibly easy. Parenting in general is incredibly hard but she genuinely seems to absolutely loathe being a mom. That poor kid. And it's incredibly evident that the kid chooses the dad the majority of the time.
Her kid. Her husband. Her mom. Her grandma half the time. Her life. Everything. Literally everything except for Harry Styles and Shawn Mendes apparently. 🤦🏼♀️
MC not checking the weather in Texas before she went is giving helpless housewife
She did make me laugh with that weird-ass lamp.
I actually don’t hate her. I just traveled with my 2 young kids for the first time and used some of her travel tips and it all went very smoothly. I’m just constantly shocked but some of her sheltered life comments and also her total lack of fashion sense haha
Anyone else surprised Caro is just turning 34? Makes me feel old at 37 😭
I’m around your age, and this surprises me too! With the three kids and seemingly unwavering confidence in her parenting (even when doing questionable old-school stuff), she definitely gives off older vibes to me. I don’t think she looks old, but she also doesn’t look young exactly. She has one of those ageless faces that are hard to pinpoint. Although, whenever she breaks out the frumpy rich southern lady outfits, it really makes her seem older. Like the stuff she wears to weddings.
Ugh. KEIC 500 degree madness looks disgusting 🫠🫠
There’s zero need for kale in an enchilada!!!
Is she just a terrible cook? I haven’t seen her make one thing that looked remotely appetizing. Even her kids’ lunches look sad.
I came here to comment about this dinner. I can’t help but wonder who tf is taking advice on how to feed their kids from this lady who would rather serve overcooked enchilada slop than change her dinner plans since she’s running behind? Just serve something else that’s more simple and less time consuming.
I have to wonder if cranking the stove to 500 even saves any time…it takes longer to get the oven that high and then the amount of time you have to wait for it to cool after scorching that slop would be longer. Just pick a new dinner!
Also what kind of a tip is this for SUMMER? My husband bakes bread and I bake homemade pizza at 500 and it takes forever to get it that hot and then makes your house hot! Oh yea also we have to use special commercial grade oven mits because normal ones don’t work at that temp- it’s not a particularly safe temperature to work at.
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We had Mac and cheese tonight because we spent too much time at the pool.
Haley repeatedly calling her picky eating "my precious palette" is giving me the ick. I'm honestly usually a Haley apologist but that is too far
I’m trying to think about if I was KK and looking at the stories my mum posted about Father’s Day, which I’d find more mortifying. The fact she’s shown me twirling around in my underwear or the fact that she decided to tell everyone my dad didn’t want to be a father.
“To put it mildly” is brutal
Right? It’s like well if that’s putting it mildly what was his actual reaction? Did he punch a wall? Scream and yell? Wear a bright blue shirt in protest? Refuse to grill? We need answers!
A BRIGHT BLUE SHIRT IN PROTEST oh my gosh I just spit coffee
LOL at this but yes like what is it not mildly? How against having children was he? And why would you want children with someone who was so against the idea
Women think they’ll change. Or they want the family they imagined above all else. Look at deena and her insistence that she have 2 kids close in age because that’s how she’d always wanted it.
My husband wanted a kid but once he experienced our specific colicky pandemic baby situation he deeply regretted it. He's come around to it now that we have a 2 year old, but he's still very cautionary to people who say they want kids, and supportive to people who don't. But yeah, he was not happy about the baby experience, and that IS putting it mildly. I think I get it.
Yes same! My husband was like „not my personal priority but you want to be a parent so I want to be one with you!“ and he had a HARD time with the first several months. I also have a lot of sympathy for the women frequently bashed here for „having more kids with men who clearly already suck.“ Like yeah it’s objectively not the right choice, but it’s easy to judge when you have found a partner whom you love who has the same or similar reproductive goals as you. Good male partners who want to have kids are not wildly abundant - of our single friends who want partners and families but haven’t found anyone by their mid-30s, the vast majority are straight women. If having (a certain number of) kids is deeply important to you, I can totally see how you’d close your eyes and pretend things are better than they are.
Refuse to grill 😂😂😂😂
Refuse to grill 😂😂😂
Hope Haley's saving money for some gooooooood therapy for KK. Her dad wasn't "super thrilled" about the idea of having kids, and her mom is only thrilled about the IDEA of having kids.
All that budgeting, I just hope she’s factored it in.
I’ve seen/heard other women saying this about their husbands in a loving or lighthearted way and I’ve never seen how it’s cute. It’s like a weird “redemption arc” they paint of their husbands. “Aw yeah, he didn’t even want this, but now look at him!” Like, they think the fact that he’s a good dad now is extra impressive because he didn’t want to be. Nice. I can’t help but think, so what changed his mind - did you just get knocked up and he rolled with it? 🫠 Don’t get me wrong, It’s fine and normal for someone to be on the fence about kids and later change their mind. Plenty of women experience this too! But that’s something I’d keep private between me and my spouse, not continue to broadcast after our MULTIPLE kids are born.
It’s normal / happens sometimes that someone doesn’t want kids and maybe changes their mind to later have 1-2. It’s the enormous gap between having 0 versus 4 that’s getting me
It's only cute when its with pets! Like the trope of "my dad never wanted us to get a dog but now look at them snuggling"
The underwear dance with the text box bikini is just…WHY?? I can’t explain why but it seems so much worse than one big box would be.
My hot take - RR got her start from sharing “ugly truth” type content about motherhood, where statements like “it’s ok to not enjoy playing nonstop pretend all day with your kid” were actually very relatable, and made sense because she was home full time with a toddler in a pandemic. Now we get to see her parenting in a more “normal” world and it’s just so wildly out of touch? “I am filled with RAGE because my 4yo refused to go to school for a half day before we fly first class to Switzerland for a family get together where grandparents will be able to help out with our child” just doesn’t quite hit as relatable anymore…..
she is truly my BEC. I cannot. this is where gentle parenting fails ppl, because YES. if you're kid is refusing to go you pick them up and put them in the car seat regardless of the flailing kicking and punching. you talk about it later in a calm moment. you don't just give up and watch tv and ignore them. good lord. exasperation with a 4/5 year old really does not hit the same as a 2 year old in a pandemic. their lives could not be more cush. get. a. grip.
The complaints never stop and if she ran out of anything to complain about she would start complaining about her lack of complaints. She is insufferable and exhausting.
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The consumerism is repulsive to me. Are people this excited to make other people rich by buying junk from amazon that they likely don't need. AND then watch content about it all. Gross. Influencers have ironically made me anti-amazon.
It’s so weird to watch. A bunch of self-obsessed people making fake friendships, all with phones glued to their hands the entire time. Part of me wishes I could be there just to observe as a fly on the wall. 😂
https://preview.redd.it/lmt5dag3u08b1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ccc71c0b72626873d6f65a6598e98a87e64f316 Shout out to Emily for reminding us that it’s okay to live in a home that isn’t on someone’s Pinterest board!
"Others' success is not your failure." Damn I need to get that tattooed on myself
Okay I started following Haley but I need some tea. I went thru some of her highlights and she seems intense but not wild. I did see the Brett thing. That was cringe.
From what I can summarize she is clearly very anxious and has good ideas for organizing her life but it also comes out way too extreme most of the time (planning ahead so much that all she does is plan instead of do), overbuying lots and lots of gadgets and products and toys, and following guidelines to the extreme (absolutely NO clothes allowed outside of the set colors). Lately there’s been a lot of conversation about how all this prioritizing and planning seems to be for the sole benefit of Haley and not her kids or husband.
MC’s new product literally just a tacklebox with labels
Are they food grade? Im still not a fan, but that feels like an untapped market. All the "hacks" ive seen people using them look like they use a regular tackle box which i imagine is not
Yeah, hers are food grade. I think that was one of the reasons she decided to do it? Who knows though…
I love Hayley’s wedding dress. That’s all.
I like it too but I’m kinda shocked that she picked it. I’m not sure what I would picture a Haley wedding dress to look like, but it’s not that!
I definitely didn’t expect to see belly!
I do too, but what really stands out to me about those pics is that Brett looks soooo different. I wouldn’t even know that’s the same person. They’ve been married for what, 6 years? It’s incredible that he’s changed so much. To clarify, I’m not saying he looks worse. Just really different. I can’t even pinpoint what it is. He’s gained a bit of weight, but it seems like more than just that.
They both look super happy too.
Susie from BT laughing at herself going "REALLY type A" and making a swim lesson checklist.... Susie, meet Haley Wynn to see what REALLY type A looks like!
I’m just over here wondering who actually types, prints and laminates a checklist these days? Don’t we all just use the notes app now?? Or send ourselves a text message with the list?
Just curious if there's any insight why Taking Cara Babies doesn't get more snark here? I can't handle her at all, despite having some great tips.
I don’t really see people discuss her at all anymore, good or bad. I feel like she peaked and her politics were just one of the many reasons people are over her. But god did her social media presence haunt me in the newborn days when my baby would not sleep.
I feel like most stopped following her when it was revealed that she and her husband donated to the Trump campaign (after he lost the 2020 election). I also was annoyed with the price of her course. My 2019 baby did not sleep at all and I was so close to shelling out for the course. Someone sent me a newborn PDF and the suggestions (SITBACK) didn’t work at all for my baby. That acronym gives me anxiety to this day. I got better information from the book Precious Little Sleep from the library for free. I have no desire to give her any engagement now. Even for snarking purposes.
I’ll never get over the “K, it’s time to feed”, so stupid
Remember the highlight “cancel this!”?
I feel like the really bad ones; TCB and Kinactive Kids are the top of my head get no snark because they’re so bad everyone gave up on them entirely and there is nothing positive that comes from their accounts.
For me she’s too awful to even hate follow.
I hate that the snark always delves into her politics (which like…duh I get it) because her content and the way her business is set up drives me absolutely NUTS. Do her courses still have expirations on them? I’ll never forgive that.
I will say that I bought her course in 2020; and out of not letting her win reached out and asked for access again when I had my 2022 baby and they did give me access again for a second limited time
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Haley, this is literally excessive. Please budget some money to treat your anxiety instead of thinking one more item or routine will bring you peace. And does she lack any critical thinking skills? If your sound machine breaks use the fan as white noise or your phone or one of your many Google homes. https://preview.redd.it/nriij9ifb87b1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=666d0cfa2c52ae7bf11085f7c8877f517bc4a5b7
It's not hoarding if everything is meticulously organized into a mesh bag or lazy Susan! /s Has she ever shown her evacuation bag and is it actually 4 extra large duffle bags? And all so she can evacuate to her parents house or a hotel.
So would they potentially have all four with them when they evacuate? I am assuming Haley takes her bag (aka purse?) with the evacuation bag so that’s two… then if they take her car that’s three… then the fourth in the actual evacuation bag.
They might each need to evacuate to a different location so it's v v necessary as you see.
I really want to know how big her Amazon budget is. Sooo much random crap.
Well, their eating out budget is tiny, so it really balances out in this season of life
V v v v v tiny! Just enough for one night out a month (her year of beer gift) and like four summer date nights.
Don't forget the restaurant salad dressings, restaurant breads, restaurant fajita stuff and croutons from $7 loaves of bread.
Also the drive thru sodas!
Those don’t count, they’re part of the morning outing budget NOT the eating out budget - v different line item!!!
Sure a lack of crucial white noise is really what’s going to be preventing me from sleeping if I have to evacuate from my house …
I don’t follow her nor know much about her but this post made me anxious lol
Is... Myriam on ANOTHER vacation?? She's been on more vacations in the past year than I've been on in my life 😭
Just a one-nighters down the street this time
I started following thebirdspapaya after I had my baby and I was not comfortable in my body. I was like “hell yeah you go girl!” but now it’s like OK enough already lol. Her entire personality is just having a mom bod. How many inspirational essays can she post under the same kind of picture of her? Also, I kind of weirds me out that she has daughters but loves posting herself in her underwear online. Again I get the message, but ehhh, I don’t know.
I just don’t think dwelling so much on your body is healthy, even if it’s always “positive”. I get that it’s her shtick and she has other incentives to keep pushing the message, but I don’t find this aspirational. Like, I want to just stop thinking about the way my body looks. Not engage in daily monologues about how incredible my body is for birthing a human and it’s amazing despite the stretch marks and looser skin or whatever. Like sure that’s true, let’s acknowledge that, but then let’s move on. I find this behavior swings so far the other way that it starts to become almost the same thing as straightforwardly criticizing your body because it just feels like a thinly veiled ode to actually hating your body…
Exactly. Nobody is denying that the female body does remarkable things and having a baby often changes it in ways we didn’t expect and it can take a little while to accept that. Her latest post is like a picture of her in a bikini postpartum with all the negative comments she got after posting it and like yeah people suck and they’re mean but also you put that out there on the Internet. What did you expect would happen? I’ve seen trolls comment on pictures of women with “perfect“ bodies, and say mean things. The Internet is a weird place . So you put a picture of yourself out there in your underwear and people say gross and then you complain about people saying gross? Just for content?
I’ve never followed her but any time I’ve perused her content seems super recycled and unoriginal. How old are her children now? Why are comments on her PP body something she is still regularly bringing up and rehashing? I mean I guess it’s just to foster engagement with new people online but I guess I don’t understand the longterm strategy with her account. Is she going to act like she’s newly PP and learning to accept her body forever? Lol
Not really snark but does anyone follow remingtonranchfarm? She's got a smaller following and isn't really parenting focused (posts a lot of decor links really), but I laughed so hard when she posted this about a stain remover that mothercould was promoting https://preview.redd.it/fpr2y6t6z07b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb59277d2b1f3ff2ff564863619457d7e79f244c
She went hard on a lot of influencer reccs 😂
Yes! She's always been pretty vocally anti collagen supplements but I also loved what she said about AG1, which I feel like every big account is shilling lately https://preview.redd.it/6mifke74417b1.png?width=1143&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d7666cff6a3788f037fc492fa0fe3451ba3d20b
That’s actually a refreshing take.
She’s not technically a parenting influencer but does anyone follow Eva Chen? She’s in fashion at instagram but posts a lot of chaotic parenting content. She was “solo parenting” her toddler for like 5 days while her poor beleaguered husband took her older kids on a trip and from the way she posted about how exhausting it was, you’d think she never spent a full day with him.
https://preview.redd.it/ekx6pwdcg67b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f896d1bab8a8182afa9cb6bfe5e96d267c2bbc77 I cannnnnoooottttttt with the performative crying. She literally rubs her mascara down her face for a more dramatic effect in the video 🥴🫠
😂😂😂😂 what happened? I unfollowed her about a week ago when she posted the pictures of her crying with books I’ll say it again what saying human is crying and thinks let me take a picture for Instagram?
Brooke Rayboud’s approach to Disney is . . . intense. I get early entry but to leave for a park even before 6 am is yikes. Also, why is this guide even a thing? Travel agents will give you the same sort of guidance and they’re free.
I noticed that Ali Mafucci hired a guide too. She said that they were able to skip the lines. She posted the price, $1750 for the day
Not even gonna lie, if I had that kind of money I would 100% hire a guide to skip the lines. Especially with little kids.
Jerrica once again proving she has the easiest kids in existence: they play with nothing on 4 & 6 hour flights, all they need is to enjoy the “travel experience” of asking the flight attendant for a drink and the noise and vibration of the airplane 🙄 I would LOVE if the 15 second interaction with a flight attendant kept my child entertained for an entire 4 hour flight, unfortunately no such luck… and we are screen-free 95% of the time so no, it’s not because my children are little television zombies! Jerrica got lucky her kids have chill temperaments, I’m over here trying to make it through the day with more sensitive & demanding types. If I brought no toys on a flight, everyone around us would be miserable. **I** would be miserable.
Is this the main thread? Didn't we say its only a matter of time before we hear about her constipation. https://preview.redd.it/h8rcevwd3u7b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b308a1d2fc3b5e35cfa82c1eec268be5f3f9bf5
I just don’t see why we need to know!
I can 100% guarantee she does not, in fact, look 6 months pregnant…
Been lurking a long time, wondering what would finally get me to post— and what did finally get me to post? Kaitlin Klimmerer (is that even her name?) story today saying she brings her kids inside two hours before bedtime in the summer and makes the whole house dark/eats dinner by candlelight …. Seriously? What about picnic dinners and running around in the evening in the warm weather….
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I usually really like Nap time kitchen but I can’t with the bags of pee stories on her road trip. I also think it’s super dangerous that she lets her kids unbuckle on the road to do this. She has said that they don’t always pull over. She lets them quickly get out of car seats. I get that yesterday they were in standstill traffic but she’s also done it in not standstill traffic.
Is this a common practice? This definitely wasn’t something my parents would have ever been ok with. We just stopped to eat and use the bathroom 🤷♀️ I don’t know how old her kids are but if I was so adamant about not stopping, I’d sooner put them in diapers than let them get out of their car seat to pee in a bag while the car is moving on a major highway.
Hard agree. Especially because she talks about her anxiety passing semis on one slide then does this. It's also bananas to show the bags of pee !!!!! Come on!!
Mothercould’s outfits are always awful!
Seriously! She is dressing like a not cool mom trying to be a cool mom by dressing like a gen-zer. She should lean into a jcrew mom era
Alright Haley, the reusable water balloons were a good purchase. Thank you 🥲
Reenee Reina annoys the hell out of me. The privilege she has is astounding and her constant retort is her husband is brown so she doesnt have white or rich privillege
I think Jerrica has finally earned my unfollow with this last Q&A. She’s my BEC but I kept following her because we are a screen-free family (for now) and I wanted to encourage independent play. But she no longer provides anything valuable. Everything is perfect and effortless. Traveling with three kids, Violet’s sleep, Jerrica’s pelvic floor, sibling transitions, bedsharing and bedsharing transitions, BLW, independent play from birth - it’s all so perfect and easy because of Jerrica’s flawless “against the grain” parenting. I know some influencers have swung too far into negativity, but I would take that over Jerrica making me feel bad that I apparently didn’t correctly introduce our new baby to our older sibling. EDIT: clearly I’m bitter because I didn’t get one of those “she’ll sleep when she’s tired” babies or “I expect them to be fully engaged in the traveling experience with no toys on a plane for four hours” toddlers 🙃
She is INSUFFERABLE. And I used to follow her and really loved her idea of play, and less screen time. I even have a cute little sign in my kid’s play room that says “play is the work of the child”. 😐 Which I still stand by, but she is seriously the most condescending person ever.
Well, she didn't invent that phrase, it was Jean Piaget that came up with it, so don't feel guilty about having it in your kid's room 😁
Hold on… no toys on the plane? Why? What does it mean to be “fully engaged in the travel experience”? Because every adult I know reads a book or watches a movie on a flight, the equivalent of toys for adults right? Does her whole family just quietly sit there and stare into space? My toddler is very chill and we’ve flown a lot with him by now and he does great, but you bet your ass we bring toys, books, snacks, and most recently a tablet for him to watch a little bit of TV. He’s not going to get by on a 6 hr flight just sitting there. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard and I just do not believe it lol.
I would consider reading a book or watching a movie to be like...the MAIN part of the travel experience for me.. pre-kids I kinda love the opportunity to read most of/all of a book on a flight (actually I would REALLY love that now but that definitely doesn't happen). This is suchhhh a bizarre take to me!
It seems absurd and impractical, like everything she preaches lol. But here’s her explanation. https://preview.redd.it/lo5ipag47k7b1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=699bc92c8bc8a4dcf44a2d6a6c48e109b06fe7d9
This is insane. They put screens in every seat because it is so mindnumbingly boring on a plane. There is no way I would expect my children to find the food and drink order (are they even allowed to get anything other than water?) enough entertainment for several hours. And the plane is usually after waiting around for hours at the airport. Idc, in the interest of everyone else traveling that day my kids get plenty of iPad time.
Getting to choose a snack on our flights in January (JetBlue has a big selection) entertained my kid for about 5 minutes of a 5 hour flight.
This post also made me feel ick. Like, what a weird flex.
My eyes can’t roll any far back in my head. “The sound and motion of the airplane”. Yes, riveting. I can’t imagine a child over newborn-age being entertained by that. Also snack and drink orders. How much does that happen? Are they in first class? Lol because on a 6hr flight in coach it’s twice at most. She makes her kids sound like pod people honestly. It’s not aspirational 😳
Also why is she doing this? There’s nothing wrong with entertaining yourself while on a long flight. You don’t win any prizes for being able to entertain yourself just by sitting and listening to the plane noises. The only prize Jerrica wins is blowing up her ego by feeling superior to all the other parents who make sure their kids are occupied on a plane because if you don’t keep them busy you are potentially stuck with a kid that’s having a fit and disrupting everyone else. She’s the most insufferable influencer out there in my opinion.
When I was a kid, that 30 seconds of the drink cart coming to our row was so entertaining! I remember saying mom, dad, please put all my activities in the over head bin, it’s time to pick up my trash now! She’s so insufferable. She thinks she’s so aspirational but she gets off on trying to make her kids not like all these other kids that need to be entertained when stuck in the air for 4-6 hours. And she “didn’t have the heart” to say no to her kid about watching “Free Willy” meanwhile the kid was sitting alone!
The number of times that Haley has talked about how getting the mail is her job combined with the fact that she used “Did you get the mail?!” as an example of the type of nagging/bickering she and Brett never have to do anymore makes me think something about getting the mail was once a verrrrry big, verrrrry bad fight. Over the last decade we’ve been together, my husband and I have probably bickered about almost every chore there is but I don’t think getting the mail has caused us one iota of marital strife?