Parenting 2.0

Modern day parenting is highly reliant on technology, and the options are only increasing!

- Arnab Mukherjee

Who hasn’t heard of the phrase - ‘Parents are always right’. From the very moment we are born until we are full grown adults, wise enough to make our own decisions, it is our parents who take care of our every need, plan and nurture our growth, and solve our problems. And that can never change.

What can change, and in fact, is changing, is the way it is done. Technology has found its way into the art of parenting. Innovators and developers from all over the world are creating software, hardware, and complete platforms to help parents go about the hallowed responsibility of shaping a life. And modern parents are adopting these changes for the betterment of their children as well as making their own tasks, as parents, much easier. After all, striking the right balance between care, love, discipline, encouragement, education and fun isn’t child’s play!

The main areas where parenting is infusing with technology are smartphone apps, devices, and a complete platform in the form of children’s tablets. App developers are creating applications that are meant to help children learn while having fun along with other apps that are for parents to monitor the baby’s growth, take care of pregnant mothers, and more. Device manufacturers are picking up this mantle by making changes to the more common childhood possessions like the pram and the cradle by turning them into smart devices. On the other hand, they are also making devices, using IoT and otherwise, like sleep trackers, that parents can use for a number of purposes.

The Apps