"You used to be fun. Now you have a baby. "
STFUParents
was a blog dedicated to mocking parents who post Too Much Information about their children on Facebook. It's still up, but hasn't updated since 2014.
This blog provides examples of:
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Once these children grow up, they will be very embarassed when their friends see the things their parents wrote on the internet about them.
- Babies Make Everything Better: Many of the parents have this mentality.
- But I Can't Be Pregnant!: There was one woman who was talking about how there's no way she could be pregnant. A few days later, a status saying "I preg".
- Daddy DNA Test: There was one mother who was having a DNA testing party for the potential fathers of her child.
- Disgusting Public Toilet: There was one where a mother was bathing her poo covered baby in a public toilet.
- Doting Parent: Most of the parents in this blog qualify, believing their children to be the most amazing things on the planet, to the point where they photograph their child's poo.
- Gag Censor
- Hands-Off Parenting: Most parents on here let their children do whatever they want, with no rules or punishment for bad behaviour
- Hippie Parents: Quite a few appear on here.
- Insane Troll Logic: What some parents use to justify themselves.
- It's All About Me: Mommyjacking — where someone replies to a friend's status, turning it about them, their pregnancy, or their children. Especially awful when the persons status is about having cancer or a relative dying.
- Though it's no less infuriating when a woman posts about a major life achievement such as becoming a doctor or being the youngest person to earn a doctorate in neuroscience from Stanford University (at 21). Or just being married 4 years and earning a master's degree in the meantime. There's also one very lovely post where one mommyjacker tells her Army friend that being a mother is more stressful than, you know, being in the goddamn Army.
- Though it's no less infuriating when a woman posts about a major life achievement such as becoming a doctor
- Jerkass: Several parents and children who appear on the blog.
- Lost My Appetite: Most people do when reading something particularly disgusting, such as kids covered in poo, diaper explosions, and placentas.
- Mama Bear: Used by mothers as an excuse to justify the most jerkish of behaviors.
- Momma's Boy: Some of the relationships between mothers and their sons featured here are rather creepy.
- Morning Sickness: Described in great detail of course.
- Motherhood Is Superior: There are a lot of people featured in this blog who have these views.
- Mouthy Kid: The one who called the teacher a bitch (and his mom was proud of him), and others.
- My Beloved Smother: Some parents seem to be way too overprotective of their children.
- Never My Child's Fault: The view most parents on the blog have towards their child(ren)'s transgressions.
- No Sympathy: There's loads of mommyjackers/daddyjackers who offer no support or sympathy for childless friends who lose out on sleep.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Has its own category.
- Serious Business: Many of the moms shown on the site in regards to anything about their kids.
- Sdrawkcab Name: Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backwards) is quite a common name on here.
- Spoiled Brat: There is a whole category on the blog for spoiled children.
- Tinkle in the Eye: One parent referred to this as a golden shower, which is disturbing.
- Too Much Information: Most of this site runs on too much information; is it really necessary to go into details about your child's explosive diarrhea, or post pictures of yourself giving birth on Facebook?
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Subverted. There is one picture that someone posted on Facebook, that is of a child who had thrown up all over themself in the car.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: There are some very strange names given to children, such as Vagena, Vadgesty, Banjo, and Espn.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Some parents think it's cool to use these letters in their childrens names; for example, Xili, Zayden, and McKynzee
- You're Drinking Breast Milk: Unfortunately, there have been stories of women putting breastmilk in food.
