8 ways parenting was completely different before the Internet

How did parents survive without Google?! Here’s what it was like for moms and dads in the days before Amazon Prime, Facebook groups, WebMD and iPhones. Julie Cole, co-founder of Mabel’s Labels, is the mother of six kids. But her experience raising them was pretty different from your experience raising yours. That’s because her children were born between 1999 and 2009—a time when the internet, while it existed, wasn’t the vast place it is today. My own four kids were born between 1991 and 2002, when the internet was even more of a baby.

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