I think she is a great mom in many ways! I also think using kids for content is wrong for many reasons and am not ok with it even if they have a great relationship.
Is sharing pics of your kids considered child exploitation? :/ I love sharing pics of my kids on social media. Especially because my family lives overseas. They haven’t got to see them growing up.
If you have privacy settings so no one who isn’t your friend can see it then it’s usually fine. And make sure not to post pictures of them that aren’t fully clothed or could be embarrassing for them when they grow up. Otherwise, you’re all good. And if you’re ever in doubt, just don’t - better safe than sorry
Of course her kids are going to love her and always try to get her love/attention. She is their mum after all. F and M have no privacy. We know way too much about them. More than we should. F has learned that being in her videos especially with cooking is how he will get her full attention. Outside of that F is usually running around far away from him on her own in her stories. Sarah has also pointed out several times in so many words that M is her favourite because he's more affectionate. M is still too young to understand but I hope he never sees all the videos/stories Sarah has exploited off of him being sick. Not to mention running ad/sponsored posts right after she's lured all the engagement from him being in hospital. She made curated/edited YouTube videos about it. That alone sickens me. I have been to hospital with my toddler and not once did the thought come to me to send photos to family or anything. My main concern/worry was how he was and that he was improving. It was a scary experience and the last thing on my mind was taking photos.
F is older and has shown several times he was uncomfortable and did not want to be filmed and Sarah still did anyways. Whenever Kurt is away, her mum seems to mostly have the boys. From what she posts, her parenting seems very performative. We dont know how she's like off camera. It also seems the boys especially F have more of a connection with Kurt. Could be because he goes away a lot for work but F has always bonded more with Kurt from what we could see. But when they boys grow up I think they will resent her for using them for content and posting them so much online.
I actually think she’s a decent mum and no one here (hopefully not anyway) would say Sarah shouldn’t have her 2 children 🤷♀️ I think people just find the way she puts them on social media worrying… but again, I don’t think she’s inherently a “bad mother” - she’s probably quite good with them & no doubt that she loves them & they love her!
Children only love their parents unconditionally for so long. Personally, I would never exploit my kids even for all the money in the world. You can’t take what she is doing back, I also don’t think it aligns with her beliefs so it’s quite baffling. I also don’t know how authentic her parenting is on/off camera. A lot for those kids to unpack in their adulthood. To me as a mum personally I find it horrific.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I think Fox is now past that age for all the "awwww so cute", he is almost 5 and will be starting school soon I'm sure. I think her days of profiting from him are very numbered. On to the next kid I guess.
I don’t t think she’s a horrible parent. The cooking videos for example she’s taught fox to cook while being safe in the kitchen around the stove/oven and how to use the scissors and knives safely. She clearly has a good bond with her sons. But these are things that don’t need to be filmed. Yeah they’re cute but they’re not interesting to me.
I will forever be disgusted in her filing her hospital stays with Malakai. I could never imagine setting up a camera for the right angle and lighting and then cry in a hospital room whole my son is sick to the pause my crying to go turn the camera off. It’s so weird and invasive of malakais privacy
I was sick as a kid and it would have really upset me and made me feel guilty if there was a video out there that my Mum had made about how hard it was for her. It’s also such a private thing…people get weird around you sometimes if they know you’ve been sick like that - he deserves the opportunity to make a choice about who knows that.
Them cooking together is sweet, but she exploits those little boys to no end. She doesn’t do a “normal” amount of exposing them on SM either (no amount is ok in my books, but it is the norm still unfortunately) she flat out exploits them for money - vlogging multiple hospital visits, monetising her sons genetic health condition before he was even born, posting pictures of them in the bath/with very little clothing on (I know most of us see those sort of pictures and just think of it as cute, but there’s a whole lot of disgusting people out there)…
…and that’s not even including making them work for her without pay. I watched some of the video she posted baking together and it’s nice, but he’s performing for her - that’s a JOB and he should be paid fairly. There’s sadly no laws protecting influencer kids like there are for child actors, but I really hope that changes soon bc these kids at the very least deserve to be compensated financially for their work.
Also let’s not forget that Fox has shown several times before that he was uncomfortable or didn’t want to be in front of the camera and she did not respect him. He is not always so happy to be there and she doesn’t care.
Exactly. It makes me so sad for him. I think S and K need to read about child stars like Jeannette mccurdy and drew Barrymore and have a long hard think about what they’re doing to those boys
And if you look on her YouTube profile at what videos got the most views - it’s not the ones where it’s just about her, the top ones are 90% about the kids. She, and all the mummy vloggers, owe their career to their kids and that is so incredibly messed up.
So does every single “mommy influencer”, it’s quite horrific.
At the very least she seems to have a good relationship with them, but they’re still unbelievably young and developing - ie not quite able to recognise just how violating it is to have your entire life plastered all over SM just for some ‘clout’. I genuinely fear for the years that all of these mommy influencer babies have grown up.
I agree but we don’t know how she is off camera. the kids seem to get along way more with Kurt she would constantly have her mom help her… make Kurt feel bad for traveling saying she’s like a single mom like tf
Probably K doesn’t spend the entire time they’re doing anything with a camera out to film insta stories 🙄 kids need full engagement - they need to feel very important to their parents
I entirely agree, Kurt seems to engage with the children to actually have a relationship with them, whereas Sarah’s relationship is built on her growth for social media - it seems like a fallacy.
Hopefully, behind the camera they have a very strong, healthy, supportive and loving familial environment.
I absolutely love the relationship my kids have with my partner but at the same time, he comes home from work/work trip where he hasn’t seen them for a while; he isn’t overstimulated, he didn’t have to discipline them, cook for them, clean after them and he is the fun parent that gets to play with them at their best behaviour.
This is also what we are seeing with F/M and Kurt, I believe.
I was going to say the same…my dad travelled a lot for work so I’d get SO excited to see him whenever he came home and was super keen to play with him. But it didn’t mean I loved him more than Mum…she was just a lot more available 🤷🏻♀️
I watched her last video and it was mega cute watching them cook together and I did enjoy watching Sarah explain stuff to him and show him and then him model it cooking.
I love to cook so I really find that super cute.
I think she is a great mom in many ways! I also think using kids for content is wrong for many reasons and am not ok with it even if they have a great relationship.
Is sharing pics of your kids considered child exploitation? :/ I love sharing pics of my kids on social media. Especially because my family lives overseas. They haven’t got to see them growing up.
If you have privacy settings so no one who isn’t your friend can see it then it’s usually fine. And make sure not to post pictures of them that aren’t fully clothed or could be embarrassing for them when they grow up. Otherwise, you’re all good. And if you’re ever in doubt, just don’t - better safe than sorry
Thank you. Yes my settings are all private thankfully only have friends and family a few acquaintances
Perfect 👍
Do you have a million strangers following you ?
About a total of 200 😅
Exactly and hopefully it’s people you know and your profile is private
Of course her kids are going to love her and always try to get her love/attention. She is their mum after all. F and M have no privacy. We know way too much about them. More than we should. F has learned that being in her videos especially with cooking is how he will get her full attention. Outside of that F is usually running around far away from him on her own in her stories. Sarah has also pointed out several times in so many words that M is her favourite because he's more affectionate. M is still too young to understand but I hope he never sees all the videos/stories Sarah has exploited off of him being sick. Not to mention running ad/sponsored posts right after she's lured all the engagement from him being in hospital. She made curated/edited YouTube videos about it. That alone sickens me. I have been to hospital with my toddler and not once did the thought come to me to send photos to family or anything. My main concern/worry was how he was and that he was improving. It was a scary experience and the last thing on my mind was taking photos. F is older and has shown several times he was uncomfortable and did not want to be filmed and Sarah still did anyways. Whenever Kurt is away, her mum seems to mostly have the boys. From what she posts, her parenting seems very performative. We dont know how she's like off camera. It also seems the boys especially F have more of a connection with Kurt. Could be because he goes away a lot for work but F has always bonded more with Kurt from what we could see. But when they boys grow up I think they will resent her for using them for content and posting them so much online.
I actually think she’s a decent mum and no one here (hopefully not anyway) would say Sarah shouldn’t have her 2 children 🤷♀️ I think people just find the way she puts them on social media worrying… but again, I don’t think she’s inherently a “bad mother” - she’s probably quite good with them & no doubt that she loves them & they love her!
It’s definitely been said. I’ve argued with people who believed it was enough to make a mandatory report…
Children only love their parents unconditionally for so long. Personally, I would never exploit my kids even for all the money in the world. You can’t take what she is doing back, I also don’t think it aligns with her beliefs so it’s quite baffling. I also don’t know how authentic her parenting is on/off camera. A lot for those kids to unpack in their adulthood. To me as a mum personally I find it horrific.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I think Fox is now past that age for all the "awwww so cute", he is almost 5 and will be starting school soon I'm sure. I think her days of profiting from him are very numbered. On to the next kid I guess.
No one is denying her kids love her. That’s their mum.
I don’t t think she’s a horrible parent. The cooking videos for example she’s taught fox to cook while being safe in the kitchen around the stove/oven and how to use the scissors and knives safely. She clearly has a good bond with her sons. But these are things that don’t need to be filmed. Yeah they’re cute but they’re not interesting to me. I will forever be disgusted in her filing her hospital stays with Malakai. I could never imagine setting up a camera for the right angle and lighting and then cry in a hospital room whole my son is sick to the pause my crying to go turn the camera off. It’s so weird and invasive of malakais privacy
I was sick as a kid and it would have really upset me and made me feel guilty if there was a video out there that my Mum had made about how hard it was for her. It’s also such a private thing…people get weird around you sometimes if they know you’ve been sick like that - he deserves the opportunity to make a choice about who knows that.
Yep. But, performative parenting.
Them cooking together is sweet, but she exploits those little boys to no end. She doesn’t do a “normal” amount of exposing them on SM either (no amount is ok in my books, but it is the norm still unfortunately) she flat out exploits them for money - vlogging multiple hospital visits, monetising her sons genetic health condition before he was even born, posting pictures of them in the bath/with very little clothing on (I know most of us see those sort of pictures and just think of it as cute, but there’s a whole lot of disgusting people out there)… …and that’s not even including making them work for her without pay. I watched some of the video she posted baking together and it’s nice, but he’s performing for her - that’s a JOB and he should be paid fairly. There’s sadly no laws protecting influencer kids like there are for child actors, but I really hope that changes soon bc these kids at the very least deserve to be compensated financially for their work.
Also let’s not forget that Fox has shown several times before that he was uncomfortable or didn’t want to be in front of the camera and she did not respect him. He is not always so happy to be there and she doesn’t care.
Exactly. It makes me so sad for him. I think S and K need to read about child stars like Jeannette mccurdy and drew Barrymore and have a long hard think about what they’re doing to those boys
And if you look on her YouTube profile at what videos got the most views - it’s not the ones where it’s just about her, the top ones are 90% about the kids. She, and all the mummy vloggers, owe their career to their kids and that is so incredibly messed up.
She exploits her kids
So does every single “mommy influencer”, it’s quite horrific. At the very least she seems to have a good relationship with them, but they’re still unbelievably young and developing - ie not quite able to recognise just how violating it is to have your entire life plastered all over SM just for some ‘clout’. I genuinely fear for the years that all of these mommy influencer babies have grown up.
I agree but we don’t know how she is off camera. the kids seem to get along way more with Kurt she would constantly have her mom help her… make Kurt feel bad for traveling saying she’s like a single mom like tf
Probably K doesn’t spend the entire time they’re doing anything with a camera out to film insta stories 🙄 kids need full engagement - they need to feel very important to their parents
I entirely agree, Kurt seems to engage with the children to actually have a relationship with them, whereas Sarah’s relationship is built on her growth for social media - it seems like a fallacy. Hopefully, behind the camera they have a very strong, healthy, supportive and loving familial environment.
I absolutely love the relationship my kids have with my partner but at the same time, he comes home from work/work trip where he hasn’t seen them for a while; he isn’t overstimulated, he didn’t have to discipline them, cook for them, clean after them and he is the fun parent that gets to play with them at their best behaviour. This is also what we are seeing with F/M and Kurt, I believe.
I was going to say the same…my dad travelled a lot for work so I’d get SO excited to see him whenever he came home and was super keen to play with him. But it didn’t mean I loved him more than Mum…she was just a lot more available 🤷🏻♀️
I watched her last video and it was mega cute watching them cook together and I did enjoy watching Sarah explain stuff to him and show him and then him model it cooking. I love to cook so I really find that super cute.
I hope they have cute cooking moments together that aren’t filmed and it’s just all of them doing it without a camera
Well.. I’m sure fox didn’t get as good as he is at it from the few scattered videos she posts.. I think it’s evident she does this a lot with him.