Elly Dominicis doesn’t consider herself a tiger parent — but the technological jungle of modern-day parenting might turn her into one.
She’s inundated by the battery of apps and tools required to handle her sons’ schooling and activities. There’s ClassDojo for communication and behavior management, a school portal for the gradebook, homework, and lunch payments, and “good ol’ email,” Dominicis says. Then there are the WhatsApp groups: the official ones for each class, the unofficial spinoffs for the soccer team and mom chat, and the spinoff of the spinoff without the one mom nobody likes.
“It takes up a lot of brain space,” Dominicis, a…
