Sharenting: Munchausen’s By Social Media
A limp, flushed little body lying on a couch. A swollen face framed by a hospital pillow, an IV in a pale arm. A child being taken by stretcher into a medical facility, captioned with the horrific speculation as to the child’s injuries. This is not the nightly news. This is Facebook. Instagram. What is showing up on social media feeds everywhere. These are all examples of posts made by parents, of their own children. Feverish and lethargic, hospitalized, traumatically injured. This isn’t Munchausen’s by Proxy. Nor is it just oversharing. It has its own name: Sharenting. Until I saw…
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WE all , that means ALL, need to stop sharing so much. It can and most likely will come back…