Rome, January 20 (Reuters) – After the ‘digital natives’, it is the turn of the mothers always connected. “Now multiply, especially among young women with children to preschool or elementary school, class groups on WhatsApp, where mothers are updated in real-time tasks, organization of trips, forgotten books, class dinners, but also epidemics lice, disease and other service information. ” The proof is Adnkronos Salute Tonino Cantelmi, professor of developmental psychology at the University Lumsa of Rome, which has been studying the digital natives. “Well yes, not only these children but also their mothers are digital: proficient with technology, using chat, email and Facebook to disentangle the daily tasks, stipulating cyber alliances to better manage the small house.” And this from birth mothers who are not lacking in fact with the help of technology could bring her friends up in the delivery room.
Rome, but also in Milan, in many elementary schools have sprung up in recent months, groups of class simply baptized with the name of the section – II D, IV E – or in a more imaginative: “The mothers of a fourth I know they created ‘Towards the fifth,’ “says Cantelmi. One way “to be aligned in real time about everything that happens to our children. Having a comparison with other moms and make the best choices, then to put in common,” says Francesca Group IV E Girolami School of Rome. Roberta, however, the class representative, appreciates “speed and ability to relate: the group makes communication easier,” Michela and uses it to “info quick last minute.”
“We, however, for now we just use the e-mail, but we want to create a group on Facebook,” says Raffaella, mother of a child who does the school Pistella III.
Singular and ‘media’ also the experience of a 33 year old mother of Rome to the first child. A girl cheerful, with lots of friends. Maybe too much: when her daughter decided to be born were ‘updated’ all in real time on the progress of labor, mainly because she was the first to have a baby. Curiosity and pounding at the highest levels, then. And what better tool than a synchronized chat on mobile phones of all anxious ‘aunts’ in the grass to keep them abreast of what was happening in the hospital, where among other things they would not be able to enter?
“Our friend luckily had a very peaceful and serene birth, dare I say easy – says Barbara, one of the ‘aunties’ – this is why he found the energy and enthusiasm to write messages about every half hour. All It started with a: ‘Girls, do not panic but … I’m in the hospital, the time has come!’. Immediately after ‘the contractions increase.’ And then, ‘I are going to do an epidural.’ And when little is coming into the world, we could see in the picture in all its glory from our smartphones, in near real time. upon even those who have been able to follow the event live abroad and congratulate the new mother. Throughout, a dozen women attached to the phone so as not to miss anything of the happy event. ” In short, “for mothers and digital social new technologies are a means of undoubted utility, although some weaknesses have already emerged – warns Cantelmi – Sometimes in fact mothers use these groups almost as teenagers, exchanging comments pop or, in the case the recent Christmas holidays, chains greeting cards with emoticons and animals. “
“It ‘a little’ as if they came back to the years of high school. Moreover rarely take advantage of this opportunity to organize meetings and outputs ‘live’. Mutual aid is fine – says psychiatrist – but I would not want this to become half another ally of virtual life, where you do not know the faces of the people you interact with. ” So, go ahead to mothers unleashed on social media and cyber-parent alliance, “but sometimes it would be useful to meet and talk live, face to face, and not just children. Organize a pizza moms – suggests – perhaps with the help of WhatsApp. “
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