Writing at Acculturated.com, blogger Naomi Schaefer Riley examines what it means for young children to have access to the internet and email accounts.

Preschool is three days a week for two hours and fifteen minutes, but for some parents, that is too much time away from their children. Thanks to the advances of modern technology the teachers send home email updates with pictures of what goes on during the day. It seemed cute at first, like a nice way to start a conversation with your two-year-old about their day. “Did you paint pictures today?”

But then parents started to demand more and more. Why are there so many pictures of that child and not enough of mine? Why isn’t my child smiling in the photos? Why aren’t there more photos? Now it’s beginning to look more like surveillance.

Read the article “The Lonely Parent: Should Young Children Have Email Accounts?” on acculturated.com.