Rise of social media puts parents under ‘global scrutiny’ claims Girls' Schools Association president
The rise of Twitter and Facebook mean that any parenting decision can face ‘global scrutiny’, said Alice Phillips, president of the Girls' Schools Association, as teens broadcast disputes to their online friends.
Phillips suggested that parents are becoming "less bold and intuitive" when it comes to dealing with children after a fight. While previously they would be sent to their rooms to calm down, children will use social to air their feelings.
“Instead of reflecting for a while to blaring music, [they] broadcast their parents' apparently unreasonable behaviour to all their Facebook friends, or Twitter followers, whose own parents are apparently also 'completely out of touch',” said Phillips.
"Where once they might have taken time out to come to their senses, apologise and 'move on', now they are more likely to continue the fight."
She added that teenage girls are the worst for this, and get ‘egged on’ by their peers.