Anyone who’s spent even a bit of time on social media knows how overwhelming the amount of information there is. While you can definitely find some great sources, pieces of advice, and supportive people online, you also have to filter out the noise. Inevitably, you come across posts that are beyond bizarre, especially when it comes to parenting, a topic that seemingly everyone has an opinion about.
Our team at Bored Panda has collected some of the most unhinged, weird, and confusing posts ever shared in mom groups on the internet. While honesty is commendable, careless oversharing and opinions masquerading as facts can do a lot more harm than good, especially if any impressionable parents are reading your ideas. Scroll down to go down the online parenting group rabbit hole.
#1 Can You Imagine Waking Up One Day And Your Beard Is Just Gone
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#2 She Is Insane
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#3 Sunscreen Causes Cancer, Y’all
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#4 Found This In A Facebook Mom Group
Translation: “Hi, I’m a toxic mom. How can I ensure my son will move out at age 18 and never speak to me again so I can die alone and sad wondering why he wants nothing to do with me?”
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#5 Posted In A Local Mom Group
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#6 I’m Pretty Sure She Was Serious Based On Previous Posts
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#7 She Posted Anonymously, She Knew What Would Happen
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#8 Mom Admits To Sending Her Son To School With No Shoes Or Clothes And Posts Them Completely Unrestrained In The Car
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#9 Generational Trauma Personified. It’s Now Too Intimate For Your Daughter To Cut Your Husbands Hair
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#10 Manipulation? I Don’t Think So
Manipulation… This is a wish, a child’s wish. This one really annoyed me.
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#11 I Don’t Know What An Appendix Does But I Do Know The Doctors That Are Trying To Save My Child Are Just Quacks
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#12 Quality Quora Question
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#13 My Mom Sends Me The Best Posts From Our Town’s Mom Group And Lots Of Them Are From Moms Who Are New To Canada And I’ve Been Thinking About This For Months
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#14 I’m Reasonably Certain It Wasn’t Just Those Reasons, Karen
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#15 This Made My Blood Boil
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#16 It’s Gross, Karen. I’m Also Pretty Certain It’s Illegal To Feed Unsuspecting People Your Bodily Fluids
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#17 Found In A Mom Group
Saw this poll in a mom group I am part of. Persephone is the only suitable name on that list and I’m sure some people would still have trouble pronouncing it.
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#18 Why Even Go To The Doctor?
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#19 You Ask Your Toddler To… What?
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#20 Thats More Than 3 Pagents A Month If They Start When She Was Born! Of Course The Poor Thing Doesn’t Want To Out Her Sippy Cup Down, She’s A Baby
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#21 It’s Called Happiness. I’m Guessing Pizza’s The Only Thing That’ll Give It To Them
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#22 Vaccinations Made My Daughter Gay
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#23 This Must Be A Joke – Right? From A Local Mom Group Where I Am An Admin
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#24 Imagine Needing Your 3 Year Old To Beg You To Go To The Doctor, Then Refusing Meds
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#25 Moms Who Use Their Sons As Surrogate Husbands Are Vile
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#26 I’m Going To Need Them To Do A Live Demonstration
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#27 We’ve Tried Nothing And We’re All Out Of Ideas
Luckily, the comments agreed that maybe she could try parenting her kid.
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#28 A Giant Yikes On This One
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#29 Excuse Me?
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#30 This Isn’t The Flex You Think It Is
Truly hoping this is satire but it wasn’t posted anonymously and OP doesn’t usually post satire. Her posts are genuine. Yikes.
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#31 First It Was Formula Causing Autism Now Baby Needs To Be Detoxed After Drinking Formula. I Can’t Make This Up Y’all
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#32 Depression Is A Phase
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#33 From My Local Moms Group
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#34 The Comments Are Filled With Her Explaining The Science Behind It
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#35 She’s Joking… Right?
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#36 “My Kids Were Wrongfully Taken By CPS”
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#37 Yes, There’s Live Fish In There. Confirmed In Her Comments. I Presume Her “Work From Home With 25% Travel” Is Her Essential Oils Conferences
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#38 My Kid’s Dentist Told Me Skipping Antibiotics Will Be Really Painful For Her, So I’d Like To Go Ahead And Do That
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#39 From My Vegan Parenting Group
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#40 Nothing Like A Hearty Stick Of Butter To Round Out Baby’s Meal
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#41 Would This Be A Major Red Flag To Anyone Else?
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#42 Need To Pee? Hand Your Baby To A Random Stranger In The Public Restroom
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#43 Mother Of The Year. Comments Were 90% Not On Her Side
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#44 Wild Child Rearing, An 8 Year Old Nursing And Free Birthing
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#45 “He’s Never Choked”
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#46 “Words Are My Language” Yes That’s What Language Is
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#47 My Child’s Future Means Nothing To Me
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#48 Refusing To Get Ultrasounds
They’re getting educated in the comments, apart from a few people suggesting that they “listened to their gut”.
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#49 “Help, We’ve Tried Nothing And We’re Out Of Ideas”
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#50 “As I Have With All My Babies”
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