Channel 4 star and Supernanny Jo Frost has issued a bleak warning to all parents who have a smartphone. She's warned that parents are becoming so consumed with taking the 'right' pictures of their kids, it's starting to have worrying consequences.
Speaking on the Hot Mess Mums Club podcast, the Channel 4 Supernanny star explained how some children only get taken to the park once a week "because their mum already had the photos they wanted".
"Instead of just doing what you're supposed to be doing with the kids and getting them out and going to play on the swings and coming back, you know those moments of chaotic mess and just taking those natural photos, it's 'oh no we've already got that. It's all planned, it's all crafted out'. And look what the kids are missing out on. The swings are lonely. The slides need children. That's the harsh reality of what's happening."
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She then said on the podcast: "So every mum or dad that's raising kids, you saw the virtual snapshot of what it looked like. What you didn't see was the pile of laundry that needed to be folded up and put away.
"The cr*p on the side that needed to be worked out and filed and everything else, what you didn't see was the 1,000 Legos that was on the floor... So there's two different worlds going on. And I don't want mums to lose themselves in a virtual world.I need them grounded in the real world because that's the real connections. That's where the real memories are being made."
Jo also added that she thinks British parents are "majorly influenced by America". The now-51-year-old parenting expert has worked as a nanny for more than 30 years.
In 2004 she was hired by Channel 4 for the hit TV show, Supernanny. Since the UK version of the show, she went on to film more for the UK as well as the United States and the Netherlands.
