So Over Sharing

Wow, what a book! Hadley and Willow, middle graders, meet at a conference for mom-influencers where their mothers are panelists. Their families’ private lives are on social media for followers to see. Their entire childhood is online, including a potty-training video. Online content that’s sometimes too real and sometimes made up, how does the oversharing impact the two middle schoolers?

Now this book gets…. you… thinking… I was constantly reminded of some of the influencer moms who I follow as well as some of my friends who share a lot of their kids’ lives online. How might these impact the kids as they grow up? Is everything shared true? How much time did the moms take to video and edit the content?

A very timely middle-grade novel, it is also a must read for anyone who shares anything about their children online. This is also a wake-up call for many teachers with an online presence to pause and think if they too, are treating their class students as "content" (albeit faces covered with emojis).