Although I'm not a parent, I can imagine that one of the hardest bits about having a kid is when you send them off to daycare. Leaving someone else to take care of your child must be worrying, especially when you consider that they might start waxing their eyebrows. 'Wait... what? Why would some wax a child's eyebrows?' I hear you say. Well, while it may seem completely bizarre to me and you, it turns out that this is exactly what one play school in Washington decided to do to some of the children left in their care. Glenda Maria Cruz took to Facebook after her toddler returned home from the Boys & Girls Club of Benton and Franklin Counties, which runs the Columbia Basin College daycare, sporting some new, refined eyebrows. "Really didnt wanna make this a big deal but today my life change i never thought something like these would or could of happend to my son like wtf were this ladys from sons daycare were thinking to waxes his eyebrows and not just him they also did it to my friends daughter "I know a lot of you are going to say this not a big deal but honestly for me it is because their skin is really delicate and no lady has the right to do this to any kid." [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/glenda.mariacruz.562/posts/182506962520335]] "I'm paying for they can watch him good not to be waxing his eyebrows honestly I don't know how other moms will react if this was your child for me I feel like this is a warning like they did this what's next you know my son can't talk and I don't know what he has been through and it's really hard honestly. "He's just a baby he cant defend himself he's not even 2 yet and I'm at a point right now that I feel like a bad mom because I cant protect him when he needs me the most and it sucks feeling this way." Glenda shared images, which showed her son's new eyebrows. Shockingly, another mom came forward and claimed that she had the same issue with the centre. Aylssa Salgado said: "I take my daughter to the CBC Daycare to be cared for while I'm at school trying to focus on graduating! "Then I go pick up my daughter yesterday and saw a red mark in between her eye brows" [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/alyssacruz13/posts/1639212579455848]] "I think it's a scratch but as soon as a get home I get a closer look these WOMEN decided to WAX MY DAUGHTERS uni brow. "I immediately started to contact the director of the day care in many texts she tried to come up with multiple excuses then this morning I take my daughter in person to the director. "She laughs in my face telling me a bunch of lies and I do get upset!!!" A State investigation into the incidents has now begun and an internal review from the nursery into the allegations has claimed that they were unsubstantiated.

Talk about wax on, wax off! A mom on TikTok has divided opinions online after waxing her three-year-old daughter's eyebrows and posting the footage.

Leah Garcia - who is known by the handle @leah_txrealtor on the video-sharing platform - uploaded a short clip of her waxing the hairs in between her daughter's eyebrows. In the video, her daughter is heard saying: "Ow, mom, that hurt me," after Garcia rips a wax strip from between her daughter's brows.

The 31-year-old is then heard saying: "All right, girl, now you got two eyebrows! No more Flores brow."

The text overlay on the video read: "IDC [I don't care]! IDC! I'd rather y'all call me a bad mom before I let my 3-year-old walk around with a unibrow like my parents did!"

So far, the TikTok has received 22 million views and 3 million likes, with the caption stating: "My fellow Mexicans, y'all understand!"

Check out the clip below:

Many users have supported Garcia, with many people commenting that they wished their own moms had done this for them.

One person wrote: "She will thank you someday."

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TikTok influencer and wife of Motley Crue's Tommy Lee, Brittany Furlan, commented: "I WISH my mom did this for me."

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"Ugh I wish my mom did this for me. Got bullied so hard for my eyebrows and my arms," someone else added.

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Another user mentioned that they'd been bullied for their hairy brows, stating: "I was made fun of in elementary school for having a [unibrow]."

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"I'm an indigenous person who inherited my mom's German hair genes [...] Kids called me a gorilla. The trauma of not being able to shave until 16 [though]," a further user chimed in.

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Though, unsurprisingly, many TikTok users were against the idea of waxing a child's eyebrows.

"Once my kids ask I will 100% let them but before then I don't want to make them insecure on something they haven't noticed," one parent noted.

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"As soon as a parent points out a flaw it will stick with them forever. Even if they are thankful, they'll remember not being perfect for mom," another added.

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Given the polarized opinions on her TikTok, Garcia spoke to Today about the video, stating: "As a child, I had very thick and dark eyebrows and I'd shave behind my parents' back because my father didn't believe children should worry about things like that. I remember a boy saying to me in kindergarten, 'Why are your eyebrows so big?'"

The mom-of-two then added: "I understand where [critics] are coming from but kids can be cruel. Waxing her unibrow isn't giving in to bullies; it's preventing them from targeting my daughter."

What do you think? Let us know in the comments!

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A mom has slammed a daycare center after spotting a frightening risk when she checked on her baby son.

As reported by Kidspot, a mother was working as a chef at the daycare center in Sydney, where her three young children also attended.

During her shift, she prepared afternoon tea to give to the children and decided to take the opportunity to check on her five-month-old son.

But when she walked in, she was horrified by what she saw.

The mom said she saw her baby boy fast asleep in his cot with his face completely covered, as his bib was still attached around his neck. Credit: Imaginima / Getty

The mom revealed to the outlet that she saw her baby boy fast asleep in his cot, lying on his side, but his face was completely covered, as his bib was still attached around his neck and pulled upwards.

She said she'd asked staff to put the bib on him because he had been drooling onto his clothes but specifically instructed that they remove it when he was sleeping.

"I freaked out," she said, putting her hand on her son’s back to make sure he was still breathing. "I decided to take a photo because this is unacceptable. As a parent, that was worrying, and I just wanted to show the director," she added.

The mom claimed that the center used an app to log when checks were made on babies. She claims her son was checked on at 1.43PM and not again until 2.20PM.

After removing the bib herself, the woman returned to work shaken by what had happened. She walked over to the director, who reportedly "brushed [her] off" so she showed the alarming photo she took to an educational leader in the baby’s area and asked: "Is this safe sleep?"

"And she said, 'No, it’s not,'" the mom shared.

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According to Red Nose, babies should sleep on their backs with their faces and heads uncovered to limit the dangers of overheating and suffocation. This is advised until they are at least 12 months old, as the chance of SIDS - the sudden and unexplained death of a baby younger than one year old - is at its peak between two and six months of age.

Following the incident, the mom disclosed that the owner and manager of the daycare apologized and expressed remorse, but she is still angry about the potentially fatal ordeal.

"[If] this is what’s happening to my son and I’m in the center, can you imagine the negligence for those who don’t see this?" she asked, revealing to the publication that she has since contacted the Department of Education and filed a complaint about the center.

She has now left her job at the center and told Kidspot: "I’m just in shock about child care in general now... I’m going to stay home with my kids."

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I don't know about you, but I can always tell when someone's a new mom. The seemingly otherworldly influx of wisdom of knowledge, the tired rings around their eyes, the baby in their arms... it's not always easy to tell, but I'm getting better at it. Soon, I'll be a master at it.

Unless I've had a contraception nightmare, it's probably going to be a very long time before I get to be a parent, but luckily (?), I can hear about what it's like to be a parent at any time by logging onto social media and scrolling for a good couple of minutes. From then on, it's only a matter of time before I see a baby photo, or someone complaining about how hard it is to be a parent.

This isn't to say that parenting isn't hard.

Raising a child one of the hardest things we'll ever do as human beings, but what probably doesn't help is being a mother or father in the internet age. Provided you can stay strong in the face of shaming and/or judgement, there's the very real threat of your newfound status as caregiver going to your head, causing you to say some pretty ridiculous things in the process for the entire internet to see.

Case in point, this lady who posted that she deserved to cut lines at a coffeeshop because she was a mother. Yeah, she was probably tired from having to take care of a baby or whatever, but her photo and sassy sign masquerading as hot take did not go down well on Twitter. Not one bit.

"Moms should get a fast pass to the front of the line at coffee shops. Honey, you're 22 & slept 10 hours last night? Get to the back of the line," says the picture in question, on a sign for extra obnoxiousness. Who's the mother, here? Nobody's quite sure, but the account @SlutWhisperer picked it up, and posted it to its million-strong following.

From there, only one thing was going to happen. It's one thing having a snappy, yet poorly-thought-out opinion (what is social media if not a vehicle for expressing your snappy, yet poorly-thought-out opinions?), but by taking down this opinion savagely on social media by way of straw man argument, are we really any better?

Who knows. Let's get into the savagery, shall we? First off, this doozy from @SlutWhisperer themselves. Expressed in all-caps, no less.

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Twitter wasn't far behind, as you've come to expect, and people had jokes for this lady who thinks that mothers should get to be at the front of coffee shop line. None of them complimentary.

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I could go on, folks, but I feel like you get the point. I'm sure that wherever this mom is, she wanted to post a photo that would go viral. I don't think, however, that this is what she had in mind.

There are certain things guaranteed to happen if you have a baby. You'll need to take time off work to look after it. You probably won't get much sleep. And you'll undoubtedly take photos of your sweet little cherub and upload them to Facebook. All. The. Time. Earlier this year, Enedina Vance from Ohio uploaded a photo of her 6-month-old daughter to her Facebook page. The baby is smiling widely, wearing a pink headband, and in one of her pudgy cheeks... a diamond stud. Not something you see in your regular new-and-proud parent posts. [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211506183683385&set=a.1989386747482.108860.1627740331&type=3]] "So I got the baby girl's dimple pierced!!" began the caption accompanying the photo. "It looks so cute, right?!! I just know she's gonna love it!! She'll thank me when she's older lol if she decides she doesn't like it, she can just take it out, no big deal". "I'm the parent, she is MY CHILD, I will do whatever I want!! I make all of her decisions until she's 18, I made her, I own her!! I don't need anyone's permission, I think it's better, cuter, & I prefer her to have her dimple pierced. Its NOT abuse!! If it was, it would be illegal, but it's not. People pierce their babies everyday, this is no different. "MY BABY, MY CHOICE!! PARENT'S CHOICE, PARENT'S RIGHTS!! Don't judge my parenting, we all raise our kids differently, it's none of your business anyway!!" It sparked a lot of outrage, with many people shocked that a mother was bragging about a facial piercing she imposed on her very young daughter. Vance revealed that she started receiving death threats and messages from people saying they would take her children away. But it seems these people didn't read the entire caption. At the bottom of the post was a group of hashtags that indicate the whole thing was not meant in earnest: #BodilyIntegrity, #MyBodyMyChoice, #HumanRights, #ChildrensRights, #Intactivism, #IntactGeneration and then tellingly, #sarcasm. And sure enough, it was later revealed at the baby's piercing was in fact photoshopped. Vance is a mother of six who strongly advocates against piercing or circumcising children. She believes that parents should not modify their children's bodies before they're old enough to give consent. “I seriously can not believe how many people missed that this was purely satirical, I actually used the hashtag #sarcasm,” Vance wrote on Facebook. “Yet people were still threatening to beat me to death, call child protective services, & take away my children.” She photoshopped the cheek piercing onto the baby with the intention of starting a conversation about it, and judging by reactions to the controversial image – she did just that. The post which was first shared in late June went viral, racking up over 14,000 shares and more than 160 comments.

Many people applauded Vance for what her post initiated:

Others joined in on the sarcastic speech:

Some didn't quite get the post:

Others – presumably the target group for Vance – chirped the same rhetoric that Vance used sarcastically in her post:

And some people pointed out how easily triggered some people can be that they miss the point:

"Not only has this sparked a debate, but it has created a dialogue that demands we reevaluate our role as parents. We as a society have a responsibility to protect our most vulnerable gifts, our children," she wrote in a later post on Facebook, addressing the attention the photo got. She raises a few of her key beliefs about children's rights in relation to circumcision, the medical community, and governmental, and concludes with this: "We must open our eyes & our hearts to acknowledge the fact that our children are human beings with rights that deserve to be respected & protected. No one has the right to alter, modify, or mutilate another human being's body for aesthetic purposes." However strong her beliefs are and in whatever way they resonate with the community at large, it must be given to Vance that she was able to create such monumental discussion about a topic that is otherwise seldom spoken about.

A beauty vlogger has been slammed on social media after claiming to have "beat the cr*p" out of her two-year-old daughter for ruining her makeup palette.

In a video she uploaded to her channel, called My Toddler Ruined My JSC Alien Palette | Now I’m sad…, YouTuber Michelle Grace proceeded to tell her audience that her toddler had ruined two of her eye shadow palettes.

Check out the controversial video below:

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"Y'all hear that right?" Michelle, 23, asked in the video. "My 2-year-old just got her a** beat because no matter how many times I tell her not to mess with my makeup, she never f***ing listens. I put it away so that she can't find it, and what does she do? She finds it."

"At this point, I need a frickin' safe with a combination on it to keep her out of it. She has ruined two palettes of mine and one of them is being discontinued. One second, my hand hurts. 'Cause I just beat the cr*p out of her. Not literally, but I taught her a lesson. Because I'll be damned if she's gonna walk all over me [sic]."

Check out this other controversial social media moment. This is the moment rapper YG asks his three-year-old daughter to smell a bag of weed:

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Meanwhile, Michelle's daughter can be heard crying the background.

"And I know a lot of parents might not agree with me," Grace continues. "But I don't normally — I don't normally spank my child, unless I really have to, and usually, it's just a pop. And it barely hurts. She cries for like, five seconds."

While the original video has since been deleted from her official channel, the content has been reuploaded on other YouTube channels and elsewhere on the internet.

Unsurprisingly, the video was met with fierce backlash online, with many social media users condemning Michelle's "abusive" behavior towards the youngster.

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One user tweeted: "My kid was throwing all kinds of sh*t at me (playfully, it was a game to her) and destroying the house when she was two. Know what I didn’t do? Hit her. Because why? SHE WAS TWO BUT ALSO EVEN IF SHE WAS 15 SHE DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED!!!!!! [sic]"

Another added: "Don’t hit/pop/spank your kid. There is never a reason to strike a child. Teaching them to fear you isn’t parenting. You’re normalizing violence. Stop. Learn and do better."

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Michelle has since responded to the criticism with a lengthy statement posted on Twitter.

"What I did should have never been done," she began. "I acted out of emotions and had a lapse in judgment. That being said, I’m truly sorry if it all came off the wrong way. It was [a] poor choice of words and I admit that."

The incident has led to a Change.org petition being set up to have Michelle removed from YouTube.