Be realistic of the effects of what you are sharing.

Sharing your kids online may help to connect with others.

Giving away to much information can have inadvertent, negative effects.

Recently, someone I know lost their phone, which stored all their photos of their two young children. She was clearly upset about this.

A couple of weeks later, she declared: "Thank goodness for Facebook!" She was elated to retrieve some of the lost pictures from her Facebook photo library. She was even more pleased that she had been an avid sharer of pictures of her kids. Basically, she had been busy engaging in sharenting, and she was all in favour of it.

Sharenting is a term combining sharing and parenting and refers to parents who share photos, videos, and general information about their children online. It is not uncommon, as in the above example, and it has been suggested that most parents in the U.S. have engaged in sharenting. One estimate shows that parents share around 1500 pictures of their child on social media before the child reaches age........

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