August 2015 Moms
MelHay
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First Time Grandparents
MelHay
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My husband has a typical newborn-sleeping-on-stomach-naked picture of our son as his cover photo on Facebook. One of his friends reported it yesterday for nudity and Facebook subsequently messaged him and said that it didn't violate their standards and the photo remains. Not a big deal for us; we laugh that someone would do this and move on.
Today my father in law posts about how someone reported him for posting "child porn" of his grandson and that Facebook "called" his son (my husband) about the image. He doesn't even have the picture on his Facebook page.
Is anyone else having extreme difficulty with first time grandparents?
Today my father in law posts about how someone reported him for posting "child porn" of his grandson and that Facebook "called" his son (my husband) about the image. He doesn't even have the picture on his Facebook page.
Is anyone else having extreme difficulty with first time grandparents?
Re: First Time Grandparents
We're not on FB but my MIL pretty much lives there. I can't imagine the horror going on on her page and would rather stay blissfully unaware.
My issue is that I think they get so caught up in Lexie being *their* granddaughter that they forget she's *my* child and that means there are boundaries. The other night she came over, plucked my daughter out of her swing, and took her into the nursery along with a bottle of "baby cologne." Without asking me, she put it all over my little girls head!!! Who does that? When I looked at the bottle I saw it had expired in May of 2010!! My MIL is a hoarder and evidently kept this from when my BIL had his daughter several years ago. I was beyond pissed and made my husband throw it out.
When it comes to photos, I have say so and that's it. It's not fair for me to have my child pictures on any social media without her permission . Plus there are freaks out there and modeling agencies whom like to snag photos and use it.
I still have issues with the mil with her acting like she controls things , but not on my watch. Ladies stay strong and carry on!! All will work out . Heck, it's frustrating , but all will be well in the end.
We watermark our pictures in Photoshop to sort of combat this. We put his name across either the top of the picture or the bottom, and we try to have photos of us with him to sort of deter people from wanting to steal them.
1) the wedding is out of town.
2) it's on Halloween, my baby's first Halloween
3) Halloween is also my birthday.
Im sorry I don't want to be away from my three month old when it's my first birthday with my baby and her first Halloween. It's frustrating to hear her play the pity card about not "being needed". I'm starting to get annoyed with everything she says. Everything is either her giving advice or guessing what my daughter will be like when she grows up ("she's going to be a strong personality!" "She's going to let you know what she wants!" What does this even mean??)