[Linganth] ***UNCHECKED*** Sun Sun Lim on her book, Transcedent Parenting

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
You might enjoy reading the new interview on CaMP anthropology blog - 
-Kevin Laddapong chats with
Sun Sun Lim about her new book on parenting in a digital age.


https://campanthropology.org<https://campanthropology.org/>
Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:
Whether members of the family are headed to school or work, smartphones 
accompany family members throughout the day. The growing sophistication 
of mobile communication has unleashed a proliferation of apps, channels, 
and platforms that link parents to their children and the key 
institutions in their lives. While parents may feel empowered by their 
ability to provide their children assistance with a click on their 
smartphone, they may also feel pressured and overwhelmed by this need to 
always be on call for their children.

This book focuses on the phenomenon of transcendent parenting, where 
parents actively use technology to go beyond traditional, physical 
practices of parenting. In drawing on the experiences of intensely 
digitally-connected families in Singapore to tell a global story, Sun 
Sun Lim argues how transcendent parenting can embody and convey, 
intentionally or not, the parenting priorities in these households. 
Chapters outline how parents exploit mobile connectivity to transcend 
the physical distance between themselves and their children, the online 
and offline social interaction environments, and the timelessness of 
seemingly ceaseless parenting./Transcendent Parenting/further explores 
how mobile communication allows parents to be more involved than ever in 
their children's lives, leaving readers to question whether or not 
parents have become too involved as a result. With its clear discussions 
of the effects of transcendent parenting on parents' wellbeing and 
children's personal development,/Transcendent Parenting/will appeal to a 
broad audience of readers, from scholars, educators and policy makers to 
parents and young people across the globe.

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