For years, I thought nothing of 株ing photos of my son online. Then one day, a stranger approached him at the train 駅／配置する and said something that made my 血 run 冷淡な
From the moment she gave birth to her son Memphis, Heidi Anderson was excited to 株 her parenting 旅行 online. As an 去っていく／社交的な person, it just felt natural to her.
Along with her husband James Griffiths, former breakfast 無線で通信する host Heidi produced the 'unedited, unfiltered' podcast First Time Parents, which chronicled the couple's 旅行 取り組むing parenthood for the first time.
'In all its s**ty, glorious moments,' Heidi tells me.?
For a time, it was the No. 1 parenting podcast in the country. In 新規加入 to the podcast, Heidi would 株 'behind the scenes' moments on her personal social マスコミ accounts.
'My online presence has always been pretty big. I 株d a lot,' she explains.
After the podcast 開始する，打ち上げるd, Heidi started an online mothers' group called Stay Home Mum along with the TV newsreader?Edwina Bartholomew. 'We 株d a lot through there, there was 20,000 mums that followed us.'?
'I have a profile in Perth just because of the breakfast 無線で通信する I've done there, and from 存在 on Big Brother, so my online presence has always been pretty big,' she 追加するs.?
Heidi says she liked 株ing her motherhood 旅行 because it made her feel いっそう少なく alone, 特に through Covid when everyone was 急落（する），激減（する）d into lockdown. To be able to connect with other people - 特に mums - made her 'feel seen'.?
Heidi Anderson has a public profile and 株 a lot on social マスコミ, 含むing photos of her son. But a 最近の 遭遇（する） at a train 駅／配置する made her question everything
'It was that real validation that I was going to be okay and I wasn't alone,' she says.
'I never really thought about the 危険s of cyber stuff until [Memphis] was older.'?
While Heidi had started to follow online child safety 専門家 Kristi McVee and was becoming more aware of the 危険s of 株ing her son - she'd started to 株 a little いっそう少なく and had begun to 古記録 older 地位，任命するs of him - it wasn't until December 2024 that the magnitude of the 可能性のある 危険s really 攻撃する，衝突する her.
Heidi's mother-in-法律 was taking Memphis to a Christmas 野外劇／豪華な行列. When they arrived at the train 駅／配置する, they were approached by a stranger who （機の）カム over to 雑談（する）.
'I follow Heidi on Instagram,' the man explained.
It wasn't a 悪意のある 遭遇（する） - far from it. によれば Heidi's mother-in-法律, the stranger had been friendly, polite and had 簡単に 手配中の，お尋ね者 to say hello.?
There were a few other occasions when Memphis and his grandmother had been recognised out in public too.??
It （機の）カム as a shock for Heidi.??
Heidi says she felt 'shame' when her mother-in-法律 told her a stranger had approached her five-year-old son at the train 駅／配置する after recognising him from her social マスコミ
'The first emotion I felt when my mother-in-法律 told me was shame,' she tells me.
'And I didn't know how to 反応する to my mother-in-法律 because she wasn't telling me in a 消極的な way, but it was just the first time that it really 攻撃する，衝突する me. I felt 巨大な shame in that moment.
'It was the first time I thought, "Oh my god, am I doing my 職業 of 保護するing him, as his mum?"'
Since then, Heidi has made the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to mostly stop 株ing photos of her son online, while still 持続するing a public presence for herself.
She has also?opened up a conversation with her son about online safety.?
'We read a lot of 調書をとる／予約するs and I talk to him about why people recognise him, and he understands about the career that I have and the profile I have,' she says.
'When he gets a little bit older, I'll talk to him about whether or not he wants to 株 stuff online again, but 権利 now I feel like I've 肉親，親類d of made my 決定／判定勝ち（する） about not showing his 直面する.'
Heidi 公式文書，認めるs other high-profile women who have made the same 決定／判定勝ち（する）. 'Erin Molan, if you follow her, is big on not showing her daughter's 直面する,' she 追加するs.
'It comes 負かす／撃墜する to the parents' choice at the end of the day, and if we can have these open conversations and not shame and 非難する, that's a 肯定的な.'
Heidi says that some of the stuff Kristi McVee - who has a background as a specialist child の間の テレビ視聴者 and 探偵，刑事 上級の constable - 株 is very sobering.??
'She said to me: "We don't really know our 信奉者s, so why should they have 前線 列／漕ぐ／騒動 seats to our children?"'
McVee told Heidi that child sex 違反者／犯罪者s often save 無作為の photos of children online and there is nothing police can do about it.?
Heidi and her husband 株d their parenting 旅行 on their podcast First Time Parents
'I had honestly never thought about where those images might 結局最後にはーなる,' Heidi 収容する／認めるs.
'We're all doing our best and I don't think it really 攻撃する，衝突するs you until you hear about some of the things Kristi has seen... like predators she's interviewed 存在 a child 探偵，刑事.
'Like, they've said to her there is nothing wrong with them keeping photos and they don't care if they're 着せる／賦与するd and all these things... I thought, "井戸／弁護士席, I've never 地位，任命するd him in the nude on socials so that's 罰金.' And now I know it's not.
'So now I think what are my 意向s behind 株ing this and why am I 株ing this. いつかs we don't see the dangers and we want to see the good in everyone, and want to believe all our 信奉者s are に引き続いて up for the 権利 推論する／理由s.'
Sadly, as McVee - and now Heidi - know all too 井戸／弁護士席, that's not always the 事例／患者.??
