Chelsea Instagram

[JermajestyDuggar]

21 minutes ago, Milly-Molly-Mandy said:

Oh really, what could you tell from her posts? 

Yes her sister seems much nicer. 

Also I’m not sure if the person I’m chatting to does actually know why they fell out but just isn’t saying which is totally fine!

I did like the conspiracy theory Chelsea stole her sister’s baby name though haha

Just looking through her old Instagram and new Instagram tells me she did up her frilly dress and bow game due to attention. In the beginning she was not as over the top and got lots of positive attention. I had a feeling that's why she got even more into it. And the political aspirations don't surprise me in the least since she had a Trump themed party for her child. You can tell a lot about a person based on their social media posts. I was just joking about the baby name stealing. But I can guarantee their falling out was something just as petty. 

Edited November 15, 2017 by JermajestyDuggar

[fundiefun]

This revelation isn't shocking Chelsea's sister is a lot more pleasant and actually responds and interacts with people on her instagram and thanks them for taking time to comment. I think Chelsea ditched her old instagram when she realized she wasn't getting as much pull as her sister and decided to step up her game and started taking the frills and bows to the extreme. Chelsea to me seems like someone who is very competitive and it doesn't surprise me that she is the type to keep score over things or if she feels she is slighted.

[JillyO]

How sad for the girls if they're truly not allowed to see their cousins any more (or very rarely, when they were so close before) because their mothers are fighting.

[SoGladIWasCofE]

Weird sibling rivalry makes this nonsense easier to understand, if no less bizarre.

[fundiefun]

It's so bizarre and sad that the girls are missing out on their cousins who they were close to for many years over some falling out its too bad they can't put that aside and let the girls see each other who I'm sure they miss. Chelsea seems like the queen of Petty who will wait you out until you come back and apologize even if you aren't in the wrong. 

[Zola]

Maybe, if the kids are/were as close as they seem before their mothers had a falling out, they might find ways to be together and/or maintain a closeness as they grow older and become increasingly less under Mother's thumb.  Social media, for example, would be a way for them to have a "secret" friendship that their mothers can't control (if they don't know about it.) 

Chelsea can't exercise complete control over every aspect of their lives forever, anyway. It may not happen until they're older teenagers, but if Karen Shupe can break free and live her own life at age 18 after growing up under Erika's rigid control, any one or all of the Pomeroy Four have hope to do so, too. My money's on Abigail.

Edited November 17, 2017 by Zola
punctuation correction, because I can't live with myself if that comma isn't where it belongs

[adidas]

The older girls go to school together, right? Surely they will find each other in the playground. It’s not much but it’s better than nothing  

Family is the most precious thing on earth. I hate hearing about petty squabbles tearing people apart. It’s not worth it - they lose so much through wanting to win a juvenile ‘fight’. 

[usmcmom]

The fasting comment bothered me a lot too because it likely means she has heard her mother connect fasting with weight loss.  Many of the Pentecostal people I know fast once a week and the whole church does it on the same day. If Chelsea's church is this way, her daughters likely hear about it all the time, but they are also clearly getting the message that weight loss is an "added benefit" of something that is meant to be a spiritual exercise. Chelsea is very concerned with physical appearance. If she is already talking to her girls about weight - she's got huge problems. 

I did think it was funny that the costume arrived the night before the school event. All moms get caught in moments like that but Chelsea doesn't seem like the kind to drop the ball on such a thing. Maybe if she wasn't so worried about keeping her daughters picture perfect every second of the day, she could have squeezed in time to order a costume. OR, if she didn't have to have custom-made EVERYTHING, she might have had a little more time to get something for her poor daughter that actually fit. 

[JillyO]

@BabyBottlePop just a heads-up that I just reported your post. Chelsea's Instagram account has been private for a while, so we can no longer post screenshots from it here. You are, however, allowed to paraphrase what she writes.

That comment from Abigail about being unable to close her eyes because her hair is too tight makes me so furious at her mom. I can't even imagine the headaches these girls must live with.

[BabyBottlePop]

I didn't realize she had gone private. I won't do it again. 

[Casserole]

She went private when GOMI started a thread about her and when she missed the attention a few weeks later, she returned to public posting. She probably just caught wind of this thread, but give her a few weeks before she needs more attention, likes, and headpats. She'll be back. They always come back. 

[usmcmom]

I was just looking again at the post of baby Charlotte walking. She is just so precious! 

I read the comments this time and someone actually wrote "She's too little. Push her down!!  They grow  up too fast...." Chelsea answers by saying she had tried pushing her down for the previous couple of weeks and then clapping and laughing real big when she fell but the baby insisted on walking anyway. 

WHAT THE EVER LOVING HECK?!!? 

I have seriously never heard of a person pushing a baby down because their walking is just "too soon."  

Of course, we do know that Ken Alexander knocked down one of his boys in retaliation of the child pushing his brother. What is it with these people being so cruel to their "little blessings!"  

[Kelsey]

Everyone I've ever known has been super excited when their baby started walking. It doesn't matter if it happened at 9 months or 18 months. They've all been thrilled. I've never seen anyone push a baby down to keep it from starting to walk. The people we discuss are so strange.

[Ali]

I admit that I would have preferred not have my son mobile as early as he was. He was rolling to get around at 5 months and army crawling at 6 months. I quickly made sure everything was baby proofed instead of trying to discourage him. What is wrong with these people?

[HarryPotterFan]

What the hell??? Who pushes a baby down? That's so fucked up. I swear, I need a child development specialist to study these people.

Also, it appears Chelsea's sister has gone public again. Her eldest daughter and a friend dressed up like washing machines for something called "This and that day," which I'm guessing is a substitute for dressing up on Halloween.

Also that damn baby bonnet is driving me insane. It's cute on a tiny baby for a photo or two or something, but it's almost every damn photo. Bonnet or giant bow.

Edited November 22, 2017 by HarryPotterFan

[usmcmom]

On her most recent IG story, she shares pictures of a sleepover the six year old had. She walked in on the two girls pretending to be Melania and Ivanka and thought that was just so cute. 

That's all I have to say about that. 

[bea]

My MIL used to push my husband down - in the 60s and 70s there was this belief that walking before talking led to......learning disabilities? Something like that. So early walking was actively discouraged. Sounds like they need to get parenting advice from someone other than idiots.

 

[MayMay1123]

11 hours ago, bea said:

My MIL used to push my husband down - in the 60s and 70s there was this belief that walking before talking led to......learning disabilities? Something like that. So early walking was actively discouraged. Sounds like they need to get parenting advice from someone other than idiots.

 

Holy moley that's messed up! Granddaughter #1 walked at 7 1/2 months, but didn't talk until almost 2 1/2...she is literally the smartest person I've ever met!

I wonder if Chelsea is joking about pushing the baby down? I used to say I was gonna keep my grands in Tupperware to keep 'em fresh, but I certainly didn't mean it LOL 

[OtterRuletheWorld]

Everyone I've ever known has been super excited when their baby started walking. It doesn't matter if it happened at 9 months or 18 months. They've all been thrilled. I've never seen anyone push a baby down to keep it from starting to walk. The people we discuss are so strange.

Not entirely true. I have known military spouses that have refused to put their baby down because the other parent was very close to returning home from a deployment and they want to share the first steps with Mom/dad who has been gone for a year. [emoji4]

I admit that I would have preferred not have my son mobile as early as he was. He was rolling to get around at 5 months and army crawling at 6 months. I quickly made sure everything was baby proofed instead of trying to discourage him. What is wrong with these people?

Yeah, it is odd, but I understand why people did it in my example, so I am hesitant to judge. My youngest was running at 9 months. A few months later a baby we knew a baby who was very close in age and HUGE. So huge, said baby couldn't even pull up to sit, let alone walk. They felt bad baby couldn't walk, but I mean, baby's first birthday hadn't even happened.

This was years ago and all kids are walking and fine.

[OtterRuletheWorld]

My MIL used to push my husband down - in the 60s and 70s there was this belief that walking before talking led to......learning disabilities? Something like that. So early walking was actively discouraged. Sounds like they need to get parenting advice from someone other than idiots.
 

Where do people get such strange information. I don't think that was the norm in the 60s and 70s, but I do have a relative that was convinced kids who skip crawling (or who end up scooting or whatever) will never be able to read.

[usmcmom]

IF you MUST keep your child from walking; why push them down? I can't believe I just typed those words but here I am doing it.  Why not take them gently under their arms and set them on their bottoms. 

These people who did it in the past or to allow another parent to see first steps - did they actually push their child to the floor or did they gently place them into a sitting position?  There is a big difference and I am still a little baffled that this was and still is a thing. 

What's next - putting brightly colored tape over their mouths to keep them from saying their first words?!? 

Edited to add - I have reread the above comment about military spouses. My apologies. I see now that @OtterRuletheWorld wrote that the parent simply carries the baby more. That makes more sense and is certainly a gentler approach. I am sorry for lumping that in with my snark. 

Edited November 22, 2017 by usmcmom
Clarification

[OtterRuletheWorld]

IF you MUST keep your child from walking; why push them down? I can't believe I just typed those words but here I am doing it.  Why not take them gently under their arms and set them on their bottoms. 
These people who did it in the past or to allow another parent to see first steps - did they actually push their child to the floor or did they gently place them into a sitting position?  There is a big difference and I am still a little baffled that this was and still is a thing. 
What's next - putting brightly colored tape over their mouths to keep them from saying their first words?!? 
Edited to add - I have reread the above comment about military spouses. My apologies. I see now that [mention=25214]OtterRuletheWorld[/mention] wrote that the parent simply carries the baby more. That makes more sense and is certainly a gentler approach. I am sorry for lumping that in with my snark. 

It does seem ridiculous, but I have heard it said before and I don't think anyone was being forceful or cruel, just avoiding walking. I also don't think this is something people I am talking about MUST do. Simply something they choose to do for whatever reason. When I hear people say it, I think of it as a half joke and when it is being put into practice, I don't envision anyone being abusive or mean.

[HarryPotterFan]

Well, her sister went private again. My bad?

One thing about pushing babies down that I thought of is that doing so really takes for granted that babies will hit that milestone. I had to do physical therapy as a toddler to learn to walk.

[bea]

My kids talked early and walked late (14 months for #1, 13 months for #2). Older is in a self-contained gifted program and took the PSAT at 9, Younger is very bright. Both were reading by 5. So there, old stories.

In her defense (kinda), MIL was 18 when husband was born and desperate to do everything “right.” She lived in a very rural area and took pretty much every scrap of advice from HER mother in law, who had 11 kids. And there are still people who buy this crap - just as there’s people still doing “blanket training” and whipping kids with plumbing line.

 

[HarryPotterFan]

15 hours ago, usmcmom said:

On her most recent IG story, she shares pictures of a sleepover the six year old had. She walked in on the two girls pretending to be Melania and Ivanka and thought that was just so cute. 

That's all I have to say about that. 

Going back to this, how do you even do that sort of pretend play? Put on your mom's best clothing, jewelery, and heels and have this conversation?

Girl 1: Melania, dad is hitting on me again.

Girl 2: Oh crap, he's here? Ivanka, you're supposed to warn me so I can get out of here!

Edited November 22, 2017 by HarryPotterFan