Blogger’s Child
I have been thinking recently about what it is like to be the child of a blogger. It is not all fun events and new toys; Blogger children have to pull their weight too.
I have come up with a list of attributes that set a blogger’s child apart from ‘normal’ children.
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You know you’re a blogger’s child when….
- You have your picture taken about 5 million times a day (on a slow day..)
- Your food often goes cold because Mummy is ‘Instagramming’ it.
- You are often on the train at some ungodly hour, being force fed raisins to buy your silence, with no idea where you will end up.
- When you find yourself in mortal danger, Mummy often delays leaping to your aid, as she is too busy taking a picture of you in aforementioned ‘danger’.
- You are made to dress up in random outfits at various times of the year. Even if you really don’t want to be a witch…..
Bloggers Child
- You know how to unlock the phone & take a selfie by the age of 18 months.
- You can only play with the lovely new toys (that are sent by the toy fairies) in front of the ‘good’ wall in the living room.
- Quite often your requests for attention are met with the response, ‘just a minute, Mummy has to send this tweet’
- Most of Mummy’s friends live in the computer…
- Your first word was ‘hashtag’, closely followed by Linky and CommentLuv (#OnlyJokingNotJoking )
So do you think you could spot the child of a blogger at twenty paces?
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Hah hah, hilarious! 🙂 We have a “good wall” in our house too 🙂
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Happy it made you smile x
Oh God, that is so true. I only started blogging a month ago and already I can identify with most of those points. Really funny post! Maria x
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Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting x
Hahaha, this had me chuckling into my tea cup this morning as every point is so true!!!
We have a `good` wall in the kitchen that the boys have to play in front of too, and the boys now turn away from the camera when I say just a sec as they know whats coming!!!!
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I am glad you enjoyed it. Baby has started looking the other way already! Think I might have scarred her! 😉 x
haha this is so true! My phone is full on a daily basis where I try to get the perfect picture haha xx
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🙂 SOmetimes my phone refuses to do much until I delete some pics xx
Teeheee but I bet she loves those toy fairies!!! X
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She is rather partial to the toy fairies 🙂 xx
Ha ha – all so true! Great post x
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Thanks huni, glad you liked it x
Scarily accurate!! Great post!
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Us bloggers eh?! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it x
Really funny Aby and so true!xx
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Thank you huni xx
Ha I loved this, so true x
hahaha! This is hilarious! So true. We have a ‘good’ wall in the living room too! lol x
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it x
Oh yes, I know that ‘in front of the good wall’ feeling well!
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You need at least one in your house x
Hahahahaha fab!!
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Thank you huni x
Ha ha! This is BRILLIANT! I like the ‘good wall’ one and I’m glad I’m not the only one that takes sooo many photos 🙂
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Thanks so much I appreciate that. I take millions of everything x
Ha this is brilliant, I particularly love “Most of Mummy’s friends live in the computer…” Fab post lovely xx
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Thanks hun. I think that makes me a geek?! xx
“Mummy is this one of your writing jobs?” was a question I was asked about a new toy last week – no love Mummy has bought that for you 😉
Ben now knows that the way to say “Thank you to the lady” who sends things is with lovely photos for Mummy’s writing haha x
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Our poor long suffering children 🙂 x
A funny post! I have a good wall, and a good side, and a good part of the garden…and all my family know that they have to wait for food so I can take photos of it! xx
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What have we all become! 🙂 xx
That’s so funny! and so very true for me too, the kids are always complaining to me that they want to try this or that and it’s always the same – just wait until I have photographed it! 🙂
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It must be soo frustrating for the poor little darlings 🙂 x
The one about ‘in front of the good wall’ made me actually LOL! Great post Aby 🙂 xxx
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Thank you my darling 🙂 xxx
“You can only play with the lovely new toys (that are sent by the toy fairies) in front of the ‘good’ wall in the living room.”
Very cute!
Can’t help but feel sorry for these kids when they’re in tears, and our response is to grab the camera 🙂
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Ha ha I haven’t gone as far as that yet. Crying comes before pictures x
Brilliant! Especially about the good wall for picture opportunities.
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Thanks hun x
So true! My kiddies know to hold up their creations near the window for the best light for photographing them and to “freeze”!
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They are well trained 🙂 x
Hehe this made me giggle!!
Heee so cool, defo with the pictures for sure.x
Totally true – can so identify with this even though I’m a relative newcomer to the whole blogging thing! My Wicked Wednesday post last week was after the 9 year old was trapped in a tree and I had to take a photo before helping him out. I got a suitable handgesture for this!!! Thankfully the toddlers are better behaved (thus far!) x
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ha ha! Our poor children! Thanks for stopping by x
All very true and very funny! x
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Thank you x
This post is brilliant! My two have already cottoned on to the fact that if they smile sweetly enough in the pictures, then the postie might bring some more exciting parcels to the door…not sure when the backlash will kick in though!
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The things we do to our children! 🙂 Thank you and thank you again for sharing. Very kind of you x
Lol. All scarily true. My eldest is now 7 and all I get now is “Do you have to tell everyone what I get up to”?!
I am sure this is true for me, though I have no small children, we have 3 cats!
My boys are somewhat older and have got used to the RIP treatment they sometimes get. My boys are so lucky that they have had some fantastic opportunities
He hee! Love it – so true too! Although, to be fair, there is no ‘good’ wall in my living room 🙂 And EJ spent about 10 seconds dressed as a pumpkin before throwing his outfit off in disgust (I didn’t even manage to get an Instagram out!! Bad training…) Thanks so much for linking up with me this week for The Truth about… I’m having so much fun getting to know people a bit better X #thetruthabout
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Oh rookie error, ALWAYS get a picture! 😉 x
He,he! LOVE this! x
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Thanks hun x
Lol very true!! I’m forever trying to take photos that don’t show the laundry hanging in the background or the floor covered in crumbs and stuff! Xx #thetruthabout
Ha! Love this – and we soooooo have a ‘good wall’ too!!!
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It’s compulsory for all bloggers 🙂 x
Thanks for the laughs! I have a feeling my daughter would agree with all of these things! I often wonder how my life looks from her perspective and admittedly feel a bit guilty every time I utter “hold on a second, mom’s busy” when in actuality “busy” means posting something online!
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Oh I know ALL about the guilt. I think that comes with being a mum anyway x
Haha love it, my children now as soon as the bell rings say is that for me lol
haha, so true. Our poor children!
Jenna at Tinyfootsteps xx
This is brilliant! Especially the mortal danger one, so true!
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Thank you, glad you liked it x
Oh my gosh! I laughed so hard!
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🙂 x
This made me laugh, especially the ‘good wall’!! Great to have a chuckle at the end of a long day – thank you! #thetruthabout
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Aw thank you, glad you liked it x
Very true! Love it 🙂 every single one of these could apply in my house! #thetruthabout
Oh how true and how funny. Most of these apply to us too – especially the one about taking photos before rescuing child (unless of course they really are in immediate danger!) 🙂
Oh so true!!
Haha I love this post it’s so true
Hahaha!! Brilliant! And so true!! Baby M is such a poser as I take his picture loads. We recently had him at the photographers and they commented on how great he was at having his photo taken :S. We have a good wall too 🙂 xx #mmwbh
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Thanks hun, what are we doing to our children! 🙂 x
What a lovely post. My son is currently obsessed with taking pictures as well 🙂
Very funny and soo true! X
Our good wall is in the hall way. Maybe I need to rearrange the furniture so we have a good wall in the living room.
Hah – brilliant! I’m quickly realising I have to adopt a good wall, as all my pictures are rubbish in our usual play-spot! Love the witch pic, priceless 🙂 xx
Haha! It’s all completely true!! 🙂 LOL
It’s the one where we don’t actually sprint to rescue them, but sprint to grab the phone… I have to have a serious little chat with myself when that happens! …And it happens 🙂
I KNEW I was going to love this post!
Yes!! The amount of times I say, I’ll just be 1 minute…because I am instagramming something! Lol 😉 Fun though isn’t it….xxx #BrilliantBlogPosts
Ha ha, I totally get the ‘good wall’. And yes, my little one managed to inadvertently take his first selfie aged about 8 months… 🙂 https://twitter.com/Everyday30blog/status/530289640956502016
Hahaha this is wonderful. Mine isn’t here yet but I can completely imagine myself doing each and every one of those things!
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Haha, this is hilarious! I especially love ‘first word – hashtag!’ #thelist
haha! It’s hilarious! I love the “dressing in various dresses” and “selfie” points!
This really made me laugh, Pops now poses whenever the camera or phone is pointing in her general direction!
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The learn quickly don’t they! x
Haha hilarious, how cute is your little girl, so like you! My kids love posing for the camera-think it’s nature though as I was a poser at their age, have definitely had some nurturing though too! We’ve created monsters 😉 Thanks for linking up to #brilliantblogposts
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Glad you enjoyed it x
This post is amazing and honestly could not be any truer! lol! Thanks for linking up with #MMWBH x
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Thanks huni, glad you enjoyed it x
Brilliant! 7yo opens new toys and books, and now will hold it in front of her and smile before playing or reading with it #guiltymum
Hahaha – this is brilliant!! Truly inspired and most definitely (and very unfortunately) true!! The thing is as well, which makes me laugh even louder, is that I’ve seen you both in action in the flesh!! You are such an awesome baby/mummy team!! And I’m still laughing about Jeff Capes too!!! Xxxxx thx so much for linking up with #SundayStars xxx
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Bless! Thank hun for such a fab comment. I did show my age with that one didn’t I! 😉 xxx
hello honey. I thought I’d commented on this genius post before but obviously not. I love this and recognise then to be so very true. The other day Little Miss H climbed onto the desk and before removing her from the possibility of breaking her neck, I decided it would be a great idea to take a photo for Instagram and Twitter. Great parenting. Thanks again for linking up with #SundaysStars. You are a star. Hugs Mrs H xxxx
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Thanks hun, glad you liked it xxx
Oh so true! Poor little mites. I just keep telling myself it’s in their own interests 😉
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Yes they do get an awful lot of bonuses! x
Ha. This made me giggle. We are moving next year and I am already worrying
about where my good wall will be as we are renting army housing so can’t decorate!!
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Oh no! Maybe you can have a good hedge and photograph in the garden! x
Lol so very funny and true xx
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Thanks hun, glad you like it! Our poor children 🙂 xx
oh so very true, but then maybe they think this is normal and every bodies parents do it
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Quite possibly 🙂 x
Oh hunny this is absolutely my favorite post ever! I just tweeted it because I couldn’t stop laughing then sitting here seriously thinking of all the other things I could add to that list for my two children. I think there will be a baby boom of blogger children and wonder how they will be in school against the non blogger children. hahahaa Can’t stop laughing in agreement. Thanks for sharing. #sharewithme
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Ah thanks hun, I am so glad you liked it. I enjoyed writing it x
I agree with all of these… we had to buy our little miss her own ‘laptop’ and ‘mobile’ so that i might get get some peace… I can no longer blog during the daytime of days off and she wants to ‘help’!
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Oh yes them helping is great isn’t it! x
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