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I found an article dealing with parents who share too much information about their children and their lives, the article called it "Parental Overshare". They are calling it the new genre out today. One of the stories is stemmed from the tragedy in Newtown and the others are from blogs. As I was reading these stories, I was disheartened. These parents didn't seem to care about their child's feelings or their social life. Young children have it hard, but teenagers are in a whole different ball game, when it comes to things like this. Here are some of the stories in the article http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/the-ethical-implications-of-parents-writing-about-their-kids/267170/

• Shortly after the tragedy in Newtown, Liza Long, an "author, musician, and erstwhile classicist," published a viral essay with the provocative title, "I am Adam Lanza's Mother," comparing her own mentally-ill teen son to the alleged Newtown killer, and herself to Lanza's first victim: "A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books," Long wrote, concluding from this and other troubling incidents that her son is likely on his way to opening fire in "a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom."
• In July, for example, on a New York Times opinion blog, Beth Boyle Machlan, "at work on a memoir about mothering and mental illness," described her daughter's O.C.D. Despite the lack of violence, Machlan's essay may be more disturbing than Long's—we get an account of the girl's therapy session, and hear Machlan calling her daughter "bunny" and "sweetie." Private scenes the reader should not have had access to.

This is what the article had to say about stories such as these and about parental overshare, "Still, anyone looking to question the ethics of parental overshare faces a tough audience" (Bovy, 2013). "The ubiquity of confessional writing has spilled over into confessions that implicate not so much the author as the author's still-underage offspring" (Bovy, 2013). "Parental overshare, as I define it, does not refer to parents discussing their kids with friends and family" (Bovy, 2013). "Parental overshare does not always deal with tragic circumstances; it ranges from family secrets to lighthearted anecdotes" (Bovy, 2013).

I suggest you go to the website and read for yourself, who knows maybe this is a start of a new genre, as author puts it.

Reference
Bovy, P.M. (2013). The Ethical Implications of Parents Writing about their kids. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/the-ethical-implications-of-parents-writing-about-their-kids/267170/