A parent’s firsthand account of deleting Instagram to be more present with young children.
Emma Roberts on experiencing life in the real world rather than on social media. Plus letters from Warwick Mihaly , Madison Heckel , Zainab Chasb , Helen Clutton and Gordon Smart Like Georgina McNamara ( The one change that worked: I deleted Instagram – and embraced the joys of a truly private life, 19 October ), I also deleted Instagram over a year ago and have never looked back. And I didn’t stop there. I deleted every social media app I had. When my eldest daughter imitated me one day by hol…
A reflective column on letting children’s musical tastes reshape family listening rather than policing them.
Music may not define them in the way it defined many of my generation, but my children still know a good tune when they hear one There was a moment, some years ago in a St Kilda summer, when our family was driving along a busy street, the car windows down, belting out Eric Carmen’s Make Me Lose Control. I had one of those out-of-body experiences parents sometimes get, where you get a clear view of your younger, cooler self looking on in a state of acute embarrassment and despair. How the hell h…