People called me a monster for sharing this video of my daughter
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‘You’re a monster.’. Claire Baldock blinked a few times, staring at the comment on her Instagram post in disbelief, before scrolling to see it wasn’t the only message like it. ‘What a horrible parent,’ another person wrote. While a third said: ‘Christ. What a woman. Poor kid.’.
Claire had thought the 40-second video she’d shared on social media of her daughter would entertain people. She’d never expected a response like this. The clip, intended as a light-hearted post for fellow parents to relate to, showed three-year-old Olive discovering several of her old scribbles had been put in the bin. The tot can be seen fishing out the ‘artwork’, telling her mum: ‘That’s not rubbish’.
Claire, 38, captioned the post writing: ‘Lesson learned: always use the outdoor bin to dispose of Olive’s “artwork”.’. Thousands of fellow parents liked the post, but more than 1,000 also flocked to the comments to pass judgement. The backlash was so strong that the mum from Buckinghamshire ended up blocking people and turning the comments off completely.
‘When it comes to motherhood, people seem to think it’s a free-for-all to pass opinion on your parenting with no context or knowledge of the reality,’ Claire, a travel blogger who runs women-only tours with her twin sister, told Metro. ‘It makes me so angry as they have no idea what’s going on in a person’s life, and if you were to say that to someone who is struggling mentally, it could be crippling for them.’.
