Parenting Patterns in the Digital Era in Career Families and Their Impact on Children's Social Interaction

Adriani Tamo Ina Talu

doi:10.55927/raxhqk04

Authors

Adriani Tamo Ina Talu Prodi PAUD, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus Ruteng Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55927/raxhqk04

Keywords:

Digital Parenting, Career Family, Children's Social Interaction, Digital Babysitting

Abstract

The development of digital technology has transformed parenting practices in modern families, especially in career families (dual-earner families) who face time constraints due to work demands. This study aims to analyze parenting patterns in the digital era in career families and their impact on social interactions of young children. The method used is a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) referring to the PRISMA guidelines, through a search of scientific articles in the Scopus, SINTA, and Google Scholar databases within the period 2019–2024. The review results show that parents' time constraints drive the emergence of digital babysitting practices, which is the delegation of parenting functions to digital devices as an adaptive mechanism to fatigue and time compression. This practice affects the reduction of dialogic interaction (serve-and-return communication) between parents and children. These conditions have implications for the decline in children's social competence, such as empathy, the ability to share, emotion regulation, and interaction skills with peers in the early childhood education environment. In addition, excessive screen exposure shapes tendencies toward individualistic behavior and patterns of instant gratification in children

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