# FOMO Parenting or Sharenting

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/fomo-parenting-or-sharenting/3514>\
**Category:** Children & teens\
**Tags:** social-media, parenting\
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/fomo-parenting-or-sharenting/3514 "2019-03-04T11:55:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/fomo-parenting-or-sharenting/3514/1 "2019-03-04T11:55:39Z")

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Creating this topic to introduce a phenomena not addressed before on this forum: A different form of FOMO, where parents feel inclined to share a lot of information online about their kids and how they are raised, in fear of being perceived as ‘not good parents’ (as I understand the concept).

This works similar to how everyone e.g. on Instagram shows their perfect life to their friends on social media, and you feel that you should do the same to display your own success and happiness and such.

> **[FoMO Parenting: Nothing New](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/positively-media/201601/fomo-parenting-nothing-new)**
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> Parenting is stressful enough without FoMO Parenting. FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) isn't new. It’s just easier to see.

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**Author:** ![secretchimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@secretchimp](https://community.humanetech.com/u/secretchimp)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/fomo-parenting-or-sharenting/3514/2 "2019-03-08T19:41:44Z")

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This.  
This is the real reason we need to concentrate on our humane design, to protect our children.