I know people like to put pics of their kids on FB, and a good number of them are people I went to High School with. And many of them have kids that are in the their late teens (15-16+). Well there's one couple that the mom is a bit over obsessed with her own daughter. And she's always posting pics of her daughter that some could be considered a bit provocative, not outright sexual but a bit more than what I would think most parents are comfortable with. Some of them are pretty much cleavage shots, some have her in very short skirts or shorts. And she is pushing out her chest and her ass to make them bigger or something. What are your feelings on that?
There was this girl I was kinda sweet on back in the 9th grade. I found her on Facebook recently. Among her favorite activities? Playing with her grandchildren. Oh, I've grown old!
My first thought is that mom wants to be vicariously sexy through her daughter. You knew this women in HS. Was she particularly intelligent or well-adjusted?
She was the cheer leader, only dated hung out with football players and other cheerleaders. More or less the stereotypical cheer leader type.
Here are my thoughts on the matter: I think she's trying to live her life through her daughter and to me it's sickening because her daughter is probably beautiful and intelligent. I personally despise Moms who like living their lives through their own daughters. I'm like: look here! You get your own life and stop trying to live hers!!!
It means high school was the high point of their life and they are trying to recapture that through their kids, it can happen with either parent.
I knew a girl when I was younger whose dad always took LOTS of pictures of her in short skirts, etc. He had her convinced that she was going to be a model. I was always skeeved out at how sexy some of the pictures were.....I mean, what kind of dad takes pictures of his 13-14 year old daughter bent over a car in some tight shorts with her ass cheeks hangin' out? Creeper.
Same here. I'd lost touch with a childhood friend - the daughter of my parents' best friends. She's 3 years younger than me, and we'd hung out together so much thru our childhood that, in our teens, I thought we'd be getting married. Pretty much lost touch after our teens, though I knew she got married and had kids via my parents talking to her parents. Found her on Facebook recently, just in time to see photos of her youngest daughter graduating college. And yes, I have found schoolmates with grandchildren too. gah!
Not having seen the photos, it sounds as if I wouldn't have a huge problem with them in and of themselves. But as a general rule, I think parents should be very discrete in posting photos of or any other info on their kids on social networks. It's one thing to open up your own private life on the internet; it's quite another to make that decision for someone else, much more so a minor. So basically, I'm in favour of cleavage shots, but against parents posting a lot of their kids' pics in any pose.
yeah, I'm at the age where women I knew in HS/College have daughters who are about as old NOW as they were when I first met them. It's rather odd seeing a daughter look more like the person you remember than that person themselves....
My parents claim to have known a girl in high school who ended up in a sleazy porno mag, and her parents were proud, and showed the mag to people that came over. We're talking Hustler type spread-eagle stuff, not Playboy. And they'd show it to anybody. I bet stories like this are more common than we know. The older I get, the less I'm shocked by this sort of thing. Human beings will do anything. There really is no limit. Only the psychology of it is truly interesting.
Well, there are people in their 30's who are grandparents... They got a kid at 16, their kid got a kid at 16 as well...
Oh I know. But when you don't have kids yourself, it becomes disturbing when things like that remind you how old you are.
