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How WhatsApp Loops Rotting Parents' Lives

2020-02-07T19:10:28.536Z


Permanent intrusions, gossip about the school, questioning of certain children ... What is said about these groups sometimes gets out of hand.


Are they worse than their children? For three or four years, parents of students have become used to communicating with each other by creating WhatsApp groups, especially in elementary school. Convenient instant messaging to make up for the frequent oversights of cherubs about lessons and other poems to learn. A question about the illegible textbook, about the reality of a math test the next day? Just post a message and parents - especially mothers - respond within a minute.

Read also: How social media came into our lives

During the strikes of December and January, for lack of rapid information on school closings, canteen, absence of a teacher, the messages crackled. The instantaneity of the application also pleases parents, who can now take advantage of photos taken live from the pool or museum outing.

Dialogue… or intrusion?

There are however certain drawbacks: the volubility and the frenzy of the messages which can arrive late at night and during the weekend. " I often get a

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Source: lefigaro

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