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How Social Media Forever Changed Parenting

Technology and social media permanently altered the way we raised the first generation of children who were already out in the world, long before they left our homes.

Lisa, of Grown and Flown, writes: I became a mother at the dawn of the Internet and watched technology and social media change parenting in ways I could never have imagined.  I got my first email address in the months before my last child was born and thus my family has quite literally grown up in parallel with the World Wide Web.

From Chatrooms to Snapchat, I have navigated parenthood through a maze of social media and technological innovations. Who could I consult with experience of social media and teens?  What did grandparents, pediatricians or even my friends know of this evolving landscape. If I felt that I was constantly making up the rules as I went along, it was because I was.

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