In our day and age, technology has blown up and with it the rise of social media came to be.
Our current generation is so dependent on technology and social media. If you look at social media apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram, there are always people active on these platforms.
Recently, there has been a rise in people streaming “sharenting” videos. If you do not know what sharenting is, it is when parents overly share videos and pictures of their children on social media.
Although it is true that there are some videos of bad parenting or parents exposing themselves harming their child, I think that sharenting videos are more helpful than harmful.
Even though seeing parents abuse their kids is something people do not want to see, it is good that parents are posting videos of themselves giving severe punishments to their child or showing anything related to child abuse. Then this can help us find ways to prevent or stop them from hurting their child any further.
For example, there was a video shared by a couple who pranked their child, which was deemed as borderline child abuse.
In the video, the father had asked to see what the child’s grade of their assignment was. The child got a ½ on the assignment and the dad had screamed at the child and broke his Xbox right in front of him. The child had started crying and the father took out the real Xbox and explained to the child that he broke the old Xbox. The couple ended up losing custody of their children.
Sharenting is not always just negative videos of parents pranking or hurting kids though.
There are very positive ways of sharenting where parents are able to stay connected with family and friends who live far away or can even help out those who have recently become parents and are not sure how to handle a new child.
In addition, there was recently this mother who shared a video of her child saying he wanted to commit suicide because he was being bullied for his disability.
In the video, the mom says people should educate their children about bullying and how much it can affect a person. People from all over the world responded to this video and a lot of people came together to help this child and family out.
Brad Williams, a famous American comedian started a GoFundMe page for the child and it has reached over $250,000 in donations. There were also several other celebrities who spoke about supporting the child and expressed their love and support for him..
By seeing videos and pictures of others parents around the world, they are able to feel less alone and are able to talk to people who are in similar situations as they are.
Overall, sharenting has more positive rather than negative effects and can help parents and the child in many different ways. Sharenting helps us save children who could possibly be suffering from child abuse as well as giving support to parents who need advice.
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