i keep seeing these “cleaning” videos on my fb about cleaning mold and piss stained houses before CPS comes. or that one lady on tiktok who lets her kids live in a literal garbage can and there’s cat pee and poo everywhere. i really try not to judge i try to understand that some people really struggle. but i can’t help but loathe these women for allowing their kids to live like that. i get it’s hard. but yall. i became a half time step mom to 2 toddlers and then a new mom to my son. in less than 4 months, all that happened. my bf and i moved 2 months before i had our baby. and when we moved we got his two 3&4 y/o kids half time. so i had that amount of time to adjust to taking care of them and then the baby came. i’m 8 weeks pp. and i struggle with a bit of PPD and with a newborn my anxiety disorder is at an all time high. but seriously. my house has NEVER looked like that. it’s messy, sure. but there isn’t mold or pee all over the place. there isn’t molding food. my dishes are cleaned at least twice a week. the laundry doesn’t always get put away but it’s in baskets and folded. am i the only one who thinks people using their filthy house for views is outrageous? and that allowing their children to live like that is neglectful?
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I try not to judge too but I agree when it's that bad or used for views it's neglectful and gross.

What's the tiktok name? I never seen those but that sounds disgusting
amanda rose 🤢

Amanda Rose is exactly who came to mind when you posted this!
i swear some women are seeing she’s getting clout for it so they’re trying to do the same

That's disgusting. It's like one popular influencer gets taken down(jacolyn&wren) and more awful parents pop up.

I get having a messy house cause I definitely do lol but I have a dog and if he has an accident it's normally my fault cause he hasn't been taken out often enough and also it gets cleaned up immediately. It's so dangerous to leave that around with or without kids.

If the idea is cleaning so CPS won't find out how you actually live, putting a public record of your shit stained house online for anyone and everyone to see seems counterproductive. 🤷

Not to say that this doesn't happen in real life, but the majority of these videos are titled like that so you click them. It's to make you mad because a lot of people will watch and get upset then satisfied by the cleaning. If you watch Amanda rose you will see her videos actually say this and a lot of the mess she has the kids haven't been having access to, like the highchair one she says her highchair hasn't been used in months and that's a part of why it's that bad.

Yeah there are some really bad homes that are disgusting and not anywhere a baby should be. It's very sad and a very real problem. But the Amanda rose videos are mostly for views, she let's the kids make a mess so she can clean and have content she also cleans hoarding homes. She said In the beginning of her first few videos that she struggles with depression and with that things get bad and fast but you can also see she gets it cleaned pretty fast. It's not ideal to let it get that messy but as someone that also struggles with depression it's easy to let the laundry or dishes pile up. My house has never looked like that but I will admit my laundry needs done lol also my mom works for CPS for a long time and really a messy house is not good but there are messes you can't even imagine and things that are absolutely terrible that some of these poor babies go through. If the parent love them and are making the right changes to be better and provide better I think that is worth something.

Also I'm not trying to defend Amanda rose I just have seen and heard some really terrible things and living conditions and hers is really not even close to how bad it can be.., sadly
i grew up in one of those really terrible homes. part time anyway. that’s why im so sensitive to it all. there was a whole in the bathroom floor that literally animals would peak through. soap residue and mold all over the shower walls. no finished flooring which made the floors hard to clean i didn’t even wash my hands there bc it seemed so pointless to me as a child. the laundry had mildew soaked clothes in every corner. both the bedroom had holes in the walls and ceiling. one of the windows was completely missing glass. there was a hole in the bedroom i stayed in a lot that birds would come in and out of. along with this one raccoon on occasion. there was ivy growing through every crack inside the house on one side. and the kitchen was past the point of use. no one did anything in there other than store pop. and the kitchen along with the 3rd bedroom above it(that wasn’t used for obvious reason)were falling off the back of the house. sliding down the hill behind us.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.