Episode Four: Life Events: Parenting, Birthdays, Weddings & Death
Guest Host: Sean Aquino
Date aired: October 21st, 2015
Parenting: Historically a new parent relied on a nuclear community to learn how to raise a child. Parents now have the ability to chose their communities and research endless amounts of information. How has parenting changed?
Courtesy of Gify
- Make Room for Dad on the Web:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/fashion/making-room-on-the-web-for-daddy.html
- Reasons Why my Son is Crying:
http://www.reasonsmysoniscrying.com/
- Don't Call Him Mom, or Imbecile
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/business/fathers-seek-advertising-that-does-not-ridicule.html?_r=0
Rights of Passage: All of our most important milestones happen through our social media profiles. Some of our most intimate moments are shared with entire networks of people and span far beyond immediate family. Does the visibility enhance or diminish all of these special moments?
- How to do Birthday’s Online:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/how-to-do-birthdays-on-the-internet#.wu7o11vwEW - The last friend who isn’t Married:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/all-my-friends-have-dropped-like-flies#.wdkRNN796W People geeking out over this wedding dress worn 11 times:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/terripous/this-bride-is-the-11th-woman-in-her-family-to-wear-a-120-yea
Death: Our bodies might be gone, but our legacies live on forever.
- The Digital Beyond:
http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/online-services-list/
- When Parent’s Grief Goes Viral:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexronan/what-happens-when-a-parents-grief-goes-viral#.cyj6ddWg4o