This week’s weekend reading rec comes from Fortesa Latifi’s article in Teen Vogue about the children of social media influencers and their parents’ decisions to document their childhoods for profit. Latifi points out that these intimate details of their lives, from videos of them crying as children to footage of a parent disciplining them, are shared and sometimes monetized without their explicit consent, and that this is “100% exploiting your kids if you’re making content with them”. She also profiles some influencers who used to post a lot about their kids, such as one mom who deleted all her daughter’s photos and videos one night on impulse, saying “She’s going to be a person. I want her to have the opportunity to write her own story”. This thought-provoking article really got me thinking about what it means to be a good parent in today’s digital age.