# How parenthood has changed in the digital age

- **Episode:** [191](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/191.md) (2025-04-24)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** parenthood, digital-age, parenting
- **Time:** 6:44–8:34 (start 404s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/191?t=404](https://truthliesandwork.com/191?t=404)

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[6:44] Al Elliott: You just mentioned the phrase digital age there. How has parenthood changed over the last, say, 20 years?
[6:50] Amit Singh Kalley: Oh gosh, I think it's, I think if you speak to any parent now that is parenting a child under the age of 18, they will probably say it's changed massively. I mean, because, you know, what we have access to now on social media and what we have access to on our phones, The addiction element, the online kind of predatory behavior element, the secrecy element. There's so much that goes on online that parents are just unaware of or indeed don't know how to manage or don't know how to limit that I think it's added a whole new dimension to parenting. I always use this one example of bullying, for example. Sadly, bullying has existed forever and it will continue to exist forever. That's just the way the world works as much as we try to stop it. But if you think back to times when you and I might have been bullied at school, we knew that when we walked into our house and closed that door, we were safe until tomorrow. There was nothing anybody could do to us until we went back to school tomorrow. Now, actually, the data shows that more bullying takes place in the home than it does in schools. Why is that? Well, because schools are getting better at dealing with bullying in school, but mobile phones and cyberbullying has gone up massively and people are abused and Things like thrown out of groups and all of those kinds of things at home. Now, those children are bringing that baggage home with them, all those difficulties home with them, sometimes not talking to their parents about the issues that they're facing. And so parents are unaware. They don't know what's going on. They don't understand why the child can't just delete their Snapchat. You know, what's the big deal? Just get rid of it. They don't understand that children are ultimately attached to the hip to Snapchat. And so it's created Huge challenges now that I think lots of parents are just struggling to deal with