Nowadays Children get exposed to Social Media at a very young age. A Child of 8 to 10 years has a mobile phone possibly with all the Apps that so many of us adults would not even know of. The generation is smart and that is good but is it really good to allow them to be so much exposed to Social Media, and is it safe also.

I personally feel that they lose their innocence with too much exposure to these things, they grow up much before their age. Many parents encourage children to make their videos and then put up on Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube after that children are constantly following up on how many likes they have received, what is the reaction of people on their videos and all of it. I feel it is too much of distraction for children from their studies and things that they have to do at that age.

It is their age to play and move around and not keep getting hooked to these reels and videos. So many times I see that they act over smart in their videos, which is very shameful for parents to encourage such things. One of my friend's daughter is just 6 years old and she has her insta page, regularly her mother makes her do some acting and then she puts up on her insta page. At times I find it very annoying and I do tell her, because she makes her daughter behave like as if she is a teenager. I told her couple of times that it is not good to make her daughter do these silly things and then put up her videos on Insta, but seems like she is enjoying it more than her daughter and she thinks her daughter is getting popularity with this. And I can see that this little girl's behavior has also been changing. At times she talks so rudely with people, as if I do not care.

Too much of all this takes away their innocence, it makes them hungry for popularity and attention and when they do not get it, they feel disappointed. Parents make them compete over other children videos who get more likes and comments, which in turn makes them do things which may just not be right for their age.

I feel, here completely the parents are at fault. They want their children to be ahead of others, acting modelling aspirations take over. If a child has talent, it is good to encourage but in a positive and constructive manner, but by not making silly videos and putting your child up for a show to others. It is a disgusting thing to do. A child gets into depression because he or she has not received good number of likes on their videos, this is so absurd.

Parents have to not only act responsibly but also sensibly, there are many times where children are not even interested but parent push them to do these things because it is some kind of society presentation of their image. May be they want to show my child is better then yours. But at what cost is important.

Social Media parenting was never a problem in the olden days because such things never existed but in today's time this is also one of the main aspect to be considered for parents in their parenting.

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