Are You Sharing Too Much about Your Kids Online? Take This Quiz to Find Out.
Are You Sharing Too Much about Your Kids Online? Take This Quiz to Find Out.
In these parenting moments, how would you use digital technologies? Learn more about how you’re balancing your children’s privacy with the allure of all the screens, sensors, and all the tech things in our daily lives!
In these parenting moments, how would you use digital technologies? Learn more about how you’re balancing your children’s privacy with the allure of all the screens, sensors, and all the tech things in our daily lives!
When you find out you’re going to become a parent, you:
When you try to figure out how to get your child to go the f*$% to sleep, you:
When you put your toddler in the perfect Halloween costume, you:
When your third-grader brings home a note from school saying that they are going to be doing their reading lessons on an iPad app, you:
When your pre-teen wants to go to the mall by themselves, you:
When your teenager declares their life is over, really & truly over, because they were dumped, you:
When your child’s sports team wants you to register for an app that tracks each player’s stats, you:
When you see a social media post in which another parent has shared a picture that includes your child and has tagged you, without asking you first, you:
The Over-Sharent
The Over-Sharent
We know you want the best for your kids, but it might be time for a sharenting do over. Taking just a few minutes to reflect on the values you want for your household and how to carry those through to your sharenting choices could go a long way toward protecting your kids’ privacy, as well as their current and future life opportunities.
For some suggestions on how to balance the need to share super cute photos and children's privacy, check out Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah Plunkett.
The Thoughtful-Sharent
The Thoughtful-Sharent
When it comes to sharenting, you’re like a happy Goldilocks: you’ve found the mode that is just right for your family by thinking through whether, when, why, what, and how to sharent.
You've got this down, but there's always room for improvement! Check out Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah Plunkett for some tips on keeping on the right path.
The Inadvertent-Sharent
The Inadvertent-Sharent
You’re not sharing every milestone on social media, so you may think that you’re protecting your kids’ privacy. That belief is understandable, but it’s worth digging a bit deeper to look at the other ways you might be using digital technologies, like “smart” home devices and AI-assistants, that capture and share your kids’ private information.
The good news? There's always time for a sharenting do-over.
Learn more in Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah Plunkett.
The Sporadic-Sharent
The Sporadic-Sharent
Your sharenting behaviors are a bit like a box of photos under the bed from the pre-digital era: a hodge-podge. We understand that it’s hard to think through each digital tech decision you make, but it could be valuable to take a few minutes of self-reflection to bring your values around sharenting into better focus for yourself and your family.
Learn how to achieve balance between sharenting and privacy with Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah Plunkett.
The Minimalist-Sharent
The Minimalist-Sharent
Your kids are practically in the witness protection program. A commitment to privacy is important, but some sharenting may be unavoidable for you and your kids to enjoy the opportunities that today’s digital world has to offer. The same way the occasional dessert before dinner won’t doom your kids’ health, a little sharenting won’t shatter their privacy or sense of self.
Here's how to get started with sharenting the smart way: Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah Plunkett.
Find Your Inner Sharent
Learn more about Sharenting
Still not sure what Sharenting is or if you're doing it? Read Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah Plunkett.