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But it’s not just overzealous mommy bloggers who construct a child’s online identity; plenty of average parents do the same. There’s even a portmanteau for it: sharenting.
When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online Taylor Lorenz 2019
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Through sharenting, or online sharing about parenting, parents now shape their children’s digital identity long before these young people open their first email.
Sharenting: Children's Privacy in the Age of Social Media See all articles by Stacey Steinberg 2023
scarequotes commented on the word sharenting
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/sharenting-the-long-awaited-arrival-of-equal-parenting/
Of course there are biologically sensible reasons for this, but unless you’re careful this set-up can cement the assumption that childcare is the woman’s responsibility, long after she goes back to work too. It was my experience of maternity leave that was a big factor in our decision to 'sharent’.
When Tom returned to work after paternity leave I was left tethered to the domestic realm, feeling panic-stricken that my life as I knew it was over. And that was when we started talking about how things could be more equal.
January 7, 2016
rolig commented on the word sharenting
Isn't this what housemates do? Sharent? I think the word the author of the Telegraph article is looking for is "co-parenting" or perhaps "shared parenting". Must everything be crammed into a portmanteau? In fact, I thought this faux word, or "fauord", meant the very opposite, that is, exclusively female parenting (derived from "she-parenting"). Not for the first time, I am calling for a moratorium on portmanteaux, or rather, a portmantorium.
January 8, 2016
bilby commented on the word sharenting
Well said rolig.
January 8, 2016
bilby commented on the word sharenting
Umm, I mean wellig.
January 8, 2016