A lot, apparently, according to a new study.
My first thought, seeing the study from the University of Central Florida and Indiana University Bloomington, wasI let him game! But then I pulled back a minute. I mean, wouldn’t it be weirder, or at least more out of the culture, if I kept him hidden?
The study ties posting kids to social feeds with permissive parenting because, let’s face it, none of us yet understands the implications of having one’s life chronicled that way. We’ve got the first generation of kids growing up with their young faces viewable on other people’s cell phones and laptops. So the idea is, if we’re good with putting them out there, we’re probably okay with a lot of other things, too.
If that’s true, then 99 percent of my friends are permissive parents — and I’m just not sure that’s the case. While our generation does tend to nurture our kids’ feelings and we attempt to be sort of friends with them rather than distant disciplinarians, my same friends who post preschool pictures do set screentime guidelines and don’t buy their kids cell phones in third grade.
Yet, when I thought more deeply, the one percent of my friends who never post their kids are, in fact, the same ones who don’t just control screentime but ban screens, who serve more carrot sticks than cookies, and who achieve a kind of slow, thoughtful parenting that I admit I am not cut out for..
When asking yourself, “What does it say about me, that I want to post this picture of my kid?” I think the honest answer is, you love your child and want to share that with the world. But friends who don’t post pictures love their children too. So do all the people who post kids, but make their Instagram feeds private. We all love our kids and are doing what feels best. And whether you’re a
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