SOCIAL MEDIA PARENTING

Social media has greatly changed the feel, style, and face of parenting. Parents of the younger generation living in nuclear families are looking to social media for advice and support, that used to be provided by older family members in India.

- SMRITI AGARWAL

Social media is a planet in itself. This planet is real and not like the one in the blockbuster movie 'Avatar." In the virtual world, there is a 'universe" and a "world" of moms or mothers. Before we knew it, the stress of social media was slowly but surely creeping into the lives of mothers, just as it had become the most important relationship for youth. Ironically, the clan of mothers who tried to keep their children away from social media now became victims of the same.

Social media has greatly changed the feel, style, and face of parenting.

Parents of the younger generation living in nuclear families are looking to social media for advice and support that used to be provided by older family members in India. When mothers are left alone by the family after the birth of a child, they feel lost, confused, and often guilty for having to care for the child.