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Parents’ WhatsApp chat groups aren’t so bad after all
Is this actual intimacy? Or just another performative digital stage, where we present a version of the parent we’d like to be?
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The WhatsApp craze started during the pandemic, when schooling from home became a nightmarish collection of Zooms and laptop homework assignments, says the writer.
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Emma Rosenblum
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They’re back. After the holidays, the parents’ WhatsApp group chats are waking up like sleepy teenagers, the buzzes and dings gradually increasing.
At first, it was just a few – someone chiming in to remind everyone about after-school registration. A couple of replies, saying thanks for the info, hope everyone is having a great end of summer, a few hearts and thumbs-up.
