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One Day, All of This Will Be Embarrassing

Kids—and some grown-ups too—are over the days of “sharenting.”
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I was at home on a recent Sunday when one of my twin 6-year-old sons did something absolutely adorable, but you’ll have to take my word for it. I’m not showing you the picture. He had spent the whole morning making a complete superhero costume out of paper, and when it was time for him to try it on, I pointed my phone at him, as so many 21st-century parents do. He immediately—and definitively—told me he was not okay with that. “Don’t put that online!”

He didn’t entirely object to digital sharing: After I pleaded for a bit,

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