As a self-professed social media addict, I was really excited when asked to take care of posts on Girnarsoft site about social media parenting. I thought about potential related topics, and it occurred to me; I found a lot of likeness between parenting and better social media development. In fact, many of the expertise and personality traits are very related in nature … I like to see them as the 6 P’s:


1. Planning - the skill to look to the future, and measure out what will be needed. This is very important in every viewpoint of upbringing a child or succeeding with social media. Consider, as a child is born, names must be considered, rooms painted and so forth. Before moving out for a trip with baby, toys, bottles, medicines, clothes … must all be planned.

The same goes with social media; a great deal of time goes into planning for achievement. A well known saying as “unless you know where you’re going, any road will get you there”, so set up for success.

As planning for strategies to follow for a particular social networking site.While using Stumble Upon.As a new user one must not just start off by stumbling their own sites.The system will pick it up as spam, and it will probably not pay attention to your future Stumbles. You need to gain trust and a reputation over a period of time first.


2. Participating - being completely involved! Children need to know they’re important and special, and truth be laid, so too do maintain friends on social networks (well maybe not special, but at least supported). Since actions speak louder than words, only by getting sincerely engaged in the site or with your children, will you really get to know them, their interests, their talents, their fears, their complexness. It is actually this type of involvement that results in confident, upright, children and young adults, and potent profiles on social media sites.

With a fairly large number of social networking websites, including Stumble Upon, Digg, Mixx, having over a millions users, there is a good chance that you could not only make new friends, but find internet users that would be interested in visiting your online website, especially if that website is your personal website. When joining an online networking community, you should be given your own profile page. On this page you could not only describe yourself, but also your online website. By mentioning what your personal online webpage is all about and providing a link, you should receive a number of new visitors.


3. Patience - is a virtue! You devote the first 6 months of social media (and parenting) taking note on every mere noise your dear baby (your profile) makes, with no likeliness of reciprocation (a ‘hot’ submission). You even need to read and vote for crappy submissions when asked, and go without sleep for days (just how it sounds), all without complaint. The traffic from a hot submission (baby’s innocence and the reassure of that first smile) is the reward. But it takes lots of patience. Social networks don’t automatically become kind, successful, responsible without first having a lot of time and thrust put in them.

As your social media algorithm nurtures (child grows) and you face-off new types of issues, again you need to be patient enough to work through the complications, and look for the bright side. Troubles are after all, opportunities in disguise.


4. Passion - social media isn’t and shouldn’t be an “I’ll give it a sway” type thing and neither is parenting. You’ve got to be passionate and wild about it; eat, sleep, and dream it. Without dedication and your passion, you can’t get completely into the necessary mind space to be outstanding, and outstanding should always be the aim where children or social media are bothered. This passion is what drives us to continually sieve to be better … better social media marketers,better parents, better people!


5. Persistence - if at initial stage you don’t succeed … try, try, again and don't give up!. This is a truism in social media, and in parenting. How can we be the best we can be at social media and how can our kids be the best they can be , if they’re not encouraged to make mistakes. We learn from our mistakes and not making mistakes means we are not trying … and if we’re not trying, we are not learning.

However there are two cautions:
1. never repeat the same mistake twice.
2. be determined in finding a solution … don’t give up!


6. Perspective - outlook is crucial to the long term stability of parents and social media marketers. Problems will always come along. Some issues will be big, some small, and some are little illusions of our imagination. The key is to be level headed, to know the type of response each virtues, and to not respond too hastily. In the end, the trouble could almost always be worse, may be the situation could even be viewed from a positive perspective. Touch up algorithms have only led to more fine searches being performed in the search industry, meaning more jobs for SEOs and not less. Eventually the same will be true for social media?


In the end, those same skills that make many of us good at social media, seem to also make us good at parenting. That’s the key to proving a better theory isn’t it … having the theory actually predict the future.