57 Messages in One Day. The Group Text Has Gone Off the Rails.

Theres been a fire, " said Hunt, the mother of two elementary-school children and chief executive of a communications consulting firm..

It isnt unusual for Michelle Yu to field 57 messages in a day from parents in three WhatsApp groups that revolve around her son, 5-years-old, and her daughter, 3. Yu now turns off her notifications and puts the phone in another room, checking messages only at certain times..

Vanessa Kroll Bennett is on five parent text chains for her four children: club soccer team, 20 participants, the school soccer team, another 20, 8th-grade parents and parents of high-school seniors, 15 people, and the parents of her sons college friends, another 30..

As teenagers, their friendships change by the minute," she said, making it hard to keep track of which parents to collect into a useful chat group. . . . . View Full Image..

Manhattan mother Lauren Smith Brody said her WhatsApp threads string a lot of different worlds: parents of the Jewish affinity group at her childrens school, 6th-grade parents and playdate parentstotaling more than 100 people..

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