2017 Parenting Trends

When it involves parenting, there is no such thing as a one rule that matches all. Every mother or father is completely different and there’s no incorrect method to raise your child baby. As we bring this year to a close, we believe some of these parenting trends will be the most common in the coming year.

These new trends that we imagine will embrace the New Year, bear in mind every thing from the invasion of know-how in our lives to a extra advanced and enlightened parenting type.

Here are a few of the 2017 Parenting Trends:

Improved Children Monitoring

Not only in metropolitan cities, but the trend of day cares have come up in a big way in smaller cities too, with more and more families becoming nuclear and double income. Understandably, kid’s safety is a big concern for parents who send their kids to day care centers. While many centers are already offering online access to parents to watch their child’s activities any time of the day, there may be many more innovative techniques coming into play the next year.  2017 is predicted to see better technology for parents.

Longer Breastfeeding

We have been instructed that new moms ought to breastfeed their babies through the first 6-9 months. And most moms had been doing simply that. Clearly, breastfeeding is a persona preference , however most moms who carried on past 2 years or more, kept it a secret for the fear of being judged; just because the idea of restricted breastfeeding is wired in our minds. “Extended breastfeeding is tough. I’d breastfed my daughter for three years and this was a common practice where I was born. I suggest mothers to buy a breastfeeding sling to breastfeed in public places and make it acceptable here too. Honestly, I wouldn’t have done it any differently and I tell other moms the same thing. Don’t be ashamed,” said one mother.

Cease Over-Sharenting

Parents love their children they usually don’t shrink back from expressing that on-line, throughout social platforms. Most children have their very own social media pages earlier than they even flip one. And some make their social media debut with ultrasound footage too! All in all, earlier than these children really go on to comprehend how the social media system works, they have already got an internet persona that has been formed to depth by their mother and father. Stacey Steinberg, a regulation professor and the affiliate director of Center on Children and Families, Florida wrote in a submit, “Parents don’t share information online maliciously, they just fail to consider the potential reach or longevity of what’s happening to the information they are posting online.” All this places the kid’s security in danger. Many mother and father have began to comprehend it already, thus, the pattern of over-sharenting will perhaps see a downward spiral the following 12 months.

Gender-neutral toys

Barbies for women, Hot Wheels for boys. Don’t you assume these restrict a toddler’s creativeness in addition to her expertise? Not just for breaking stereotypes however children ought to have equal entry to new ideas that won’t restrict their boundaries of what they need to like and what they need to be like. They ought to determine what’s extra enjoyable for them and never us. “Many parents are already opting for gender neutral toys and this is expected to get bigger the next year,” says Sujata Tripathi, headmistress of a Noida college.

Rise of the skilled nanny

Today when mother and father rent a nanny in India, they only see if the caregiver is hygienic and energetic sufficient to deal with the child’s quick wants however there’s an rising pattern of hiring nannies with medical licenses, correct instructional background, means to talk in English and extra.

Better maternity depart coverage

Paid maternity depart has already been prolonged from three months to 6 months. PwC just lately introduced depart of as much as three years for baby care. With corporates turning into extra delicate, coming 12 months might see some extra initiatives that may empower a brand new mom in additional methods than one.