What We Are About
Parenting While Black started as a love letter to our village—a space to celebrate Black parenting in all its joyful, complex glory. Back then our biggest worries were things like “Is that smell coming from their backpack?” and “How many ‘spirit days’ can one school possibly have?”
But parenting changed in this digital age – its about more than love, lunchboxes, or screen time limits. It’s about being present — at the school, in the scroll — in all the conversations that shape how our kids see themselves.
So Parenting while Black is evolving too — to also talk about algorithms, digital safety and raising real kids in a digital age.
Raising Real Kids in the Digital World
Listen, somewhere between lunchboxes and logins, the parenting game changed. YouTube became our kids’ teacher, life coach, and stylist—and not in a good way.
Now, our kids are growing up in a world where “normal” is defined by the algorithm—and we’re expected to guide them through it like we’ve done this before. Like we even know what the algorithm actually is.
We’re not here to panic. We’re here to parent with purpose, with strategy, and with a whole lot of grace (and humour).
All without losing ourselves — or the Wi-Fi password.
Introducing Unfiltered & Unbothered — a new series for parents raising real kids in a hyper-connected world.
Unfiltered & Unbothered
A series for Black parents raising real kids in a digital world
Nobody warned us parenting would come with algorithms, influencers, and endless comment sections. We’re not panicking. We’re paying attention—and staying joyful while we do it.
Faster than you can say “what the heck is Twitch?”, parents find ourselves navigating group chats we’ll never see, decoding sketchy DMs, and Googling apps we hadn’t even heard of last week. We’re bursting the bubble of YouTube “truths,” dodging shady TikTok influencers, and (yet again) reminding our kids that ChatGPT is not a guidance counsellor.
Every news story, every viral cautionary tale reminds us that parenting today means raising kids who are as kind, grounded and savvy offline as they are online. It takes strategy. It takes joy. It takes knowing when to pull them closer — and when to pry the phone out of their hand like your life depends on it.
This series is about starting conversations, learning what to look for, and finding balance between our kids’ offline lives—and the ones the algorithm is shaping online.
This isn’t about perfection. It’s about reclaiming a little peace — not just in our homes, but inside our kids’ online lives too.
And we’re doing it all without doom-scrolling or panic.
Explore the series: Unfiltered & Unbothered
You Belong Here
Watching out for our kids never stopped at the school gates. Now, it extends into the feeds, the algorithms, and the screens quietly trying to raise them too. And no — screen time limits aren’t enough.
This space is for us. Whether you’re deep in digital triage or just tried to leave a comment on Discord (and instantly regretted it), you’re not alone. We’re all learning how to parent through the age of infinite scroll — with clarity, with laughter, and with community.
We still talk 90s movies (because of course we do), and affirmations aren’t going anywhere — and yes, I still equip and encourage parents to use their Outside voice in schools — but now, we’re getting ahead of the algorithm, too.
Parenting doesn’t come with a playbook. But community? That’s the next best thing.
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Hi, I’m Nicole.
I’m all about 90s movies and Rich Auntie vibes. A writer, parent, and digital-age realist raising proud, grounded kids in a world of algorithms—and still holding out hope someone remembers to take the meat out of the freezer.
