{"id":15588,"date":"2019-09-04T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:19","slug":"millennials-are-the-most-tech-saturated-generation-of-parents-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/04\/millennials-are-the-most-tech-saturated-generation-of-parents-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennials are the most tech-saturated generation of parents yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-700x420.jpg\" alt=\"laptop screen that says &quot;parenting&quot; with image of graph\" class=\"wp-image-15590\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawpixel.com\/image\/965512\/free-image-rawpixelcom\">(rawpixel)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/on-parenting\/millennials-are-the-most-tech-saturated-generation-of-parents-yet-it-isnt-always-a-good-thing\/2019\/08\/22\/e2c2e264-afd2-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html\">The spectrum of digital child-rearing resources for millennial parents is huge<\/a>. Beyond social media and forums and Google, there are smartphone apps that log the duration of every breast-feeding session, record an infant\u2019s nap times to the minute, and send push notifications reminding parents of upcoming developmental milestones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those tools can be useful. But when it comes to parenting, \u201cwe\u2019re using technology to try to solve things that are really, inherently human,\u201d says <strong>Jenny Radesky<\/strong>, an assistant professor of pediatrics at U-M whose research focuses on families\u2019 digital media use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really good that there\u2019s more readily available information out there for parents, but there\u2019s a tipping point,\u201d she said, \u201cand past that \u2014 when it\u2019s a lot of conflicting information, or a lot of information that\u2019s trying to tell you how to do the more nuanced parts of parenting \u2014 it\u2019s better for parents to trust their own instincts.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spectrum of digital child-rearing resources for millennial parents is huge. Beyond social media and forums and Google, there are smartphone apps that log the duration of every breast-feeding session, record an infant\u2019s nap times to the minute, and send push notifications reminding parents of upcoming developmental milestones. Those tools can be useful. But when it comes to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/04\/millennials-are-the-most-tech-saturated-generation-of-parents-yet\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[289,217,65],"class_list":["post-15588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-children","tag-culture","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-e1568211789680.jpg",700,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-200x120.jpg",200,120,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-768x461.jpg",665,399,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-700x420.jpg",600,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-e1568211789680.jpg",700,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-e1568211789680.jpg",700,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-665x399.jpg",665,399,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-from-rawpixel-id-965512-jpeg-e1568211789680.jpg",400,240,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The spectrum of digital child-rearing resources for millennial parents is huge. Beyond social media and forums and Google, there are smartphone apps that log the duration of every breast-feeding session, record an infant\u2019s nap times to the minute, and send push notifications reminding parents of upcoming developmental milestones. Those tools can be useful. 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