There’s no denying the impact technology has had on parenting, with millennial and Gen Z parents facing scenarios that didn’t exist when boomers and Gen X started their families.
The modern world demands different approaches to parenting that allow mums, dads and guardians to raise their children according to their values. In turn, this has birthed a series of “parenting tribes” in the digital age.
Here are the seven biggest parenting tribes and trends for 2026.
Pod parenting
The pandemic-era “pods” that people formed to socialise while preventing the spread of Covid have evolved into pod parenting – the modern equivalent of “it takes a village to raise a child”.
Modern pods, however, involve uniting with two to six other families with similar-aged children to share the cost and burden of childcare. Pod families share school pickups and drop-offs, babysitting and after-school and weekend activities through a communal online schedule.
Initially popular in places where the demographic was more transient, such as the UAE,
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