IN THE BAN

There are those things in the wonderful world of Instagram that suddenly appear. For everyone. As if you get a huge fine if you don't do it. Such is the phenomenon of ‘proud mum of’. Almost every woman I know who has children and is active on Instagram has filled in ‘proud mum of’ in her biography.

Also women that I really like. And just like flashing with baby photos (and even worse, photos of your ultrasound), I have some thoughts about this addition.

Of course, you are happy and over the moon with your brood, you still pat yourself on the back regularly because you have beautifully endured that hellish childbirth and a tear pops up when you finally see them riding bikes or singing on the schoolyard. I get it all.

I also like to post a photo of my girls from time to time (they do really well with the likes), but I also post photos of my lovely colleagues, but I don't immediately put that in my bio.

The point is; you are more than a mother. You are also someone's partner and the best friend of this and that. You don't put that on there, do you? Unless you have a mommy blog, I don't think it's relevant information for your Instagram profile and it can be erased as far as I'm concerned.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's fantastic that people have children, but I would love it if women took a step further in our emancipation and didn't always just especially want to advertise themselves as mothers. It's great that we can do that, out of this world, but we are more than mothers. Period.