The average parent shares more than 1500 images of their child before their fifth birthday. The term “sharenting” to describe this phenomenon is becoming part of the lexicon.
But what about grandparents? Because parents themselves run the gamut from posting their child’s every move to never sharing a photo online, figuring out how to approach “grand-sharenting” is tricky. “Knowing when to share and where to share photos on social media is a big issue,” says Nancy Sanchez who teaches a grandparenting class as part of a perinatal program at Stanford’s Children Health in California. “Some parents have real privacy concerns, while some don’t mind at all.”