Who’s missing? Why as mums we need to stop erasing ourselves from photos
It’s a familiar scenario – Facebook or Instagram flooded with snaps of a birthday, Communion, or other milestone celebration. The kids are all there, of course, possibly with Granny, Dad, or cousins thrown in for good measure. But there is no mum. Maybe she’s behind the camera. Or she’s waving away someone else’s offer to […]
10 years ago
You Are Ruining Your Child With So Many Baby Selfies (Says Psychologist)
We so don’t blame you for being tempted to take four million selfies with your baby – they are just too darn cute not too, aren’t they? The thing is, turning the smartphone camera lens inward is also engendering self-centered behavior in children, according to educational psychologist and parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba. And worryingly, […]
11 years ago
Meet Skellie: She could be ANYONE you know on Instagram
Created by social media manager, Dana Herlihey for a bit of fun at Halloween for pranking with her fellow work friends. It has since become an Instagram sensation. If you haven’t seen these images yet, let us count the ways in which you are about to laugh. This skeleton must Instagram her food, or she may feel she […]
11 years ago
How selfies have sparked a headlice EXPLOSION
‘A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone’, the word ‘selfie’ entered the Oxford dictionary in 2014. Since then, it’s somehow managed to become inextricably linked to another, slightly less sexy term: head louse: ‘A louse which infests the hair of the human head.’ How? Well, US paediatricians are warning […]
11 years ago