12 Signs You're In the Newest Generation of Modern Moms

If you ever spent a Sunday afternoon batch-pureeing organic green beans and mangoes instead of grabbing a good ol' jar of Gerber's, and if your new mom's support group is a Facebook feed, and if you ever considered a baby name change because of the lack of availability of a matching Gmail account, you are certainly not the traditional type when it comes to parenting.

Not only are you a modern mom — you're a postmodern one. Born into the milennial generation or not, you are an early adopter to every new childcare technique just as you are to every new technology. So review the signs to see if you fit the description. Spoiler alert: if you're reading this on your iPhone, you probably already know you do.

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You Signed Them Up For Email Before They Were Born
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You Signed Them Up For Email Before They Were Born

As soon as you settled on the name, you went straight to Gmail and registered for every iteration you could think up: first name, last name; first initial, last name . . . When you discover that all the clean ones are taken and you’ll have to start adding numbers to the end, you seriously consider thinking up a more unique moniker.

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You Text Your Husband . . . From the Other Room
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You Text Your Husband . . . From the Other Room

“Can you help me out with bath time?” “911 — we’re out of diapers!” No need to yell when you can shoot off a quick text message from upstairs . . . or in the next room.

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Your Cookbook Is Called Pinterest
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Your Cookbook Is Called Pinterest

When you are looking for a quick after-school snack idea or a one-pot dinner recipe, you go to the one place you know will inspire you. Pinterest is your sous chef and your party planner. You don’t know how parents planned first birthdays, grade school graduations, or Easter egg hunts without it.

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Your Support Group Is Called Facebook
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Your Support Group Is Called Facebook

Why call one fellow mom for her opinion when you can crowdsource all of your Facebook followers? If you need advice or just a throng of parents to listen to you vent, a bevy of helpful responses is just one quick click away. And all that Facebook stalking comes in handy, too: there’s a good chance you’ve picked up a handy potty-training tip from a few borderline-TMI mobile uploads.

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You Don’t Assign Gender
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You Don’t Assign Gender

It’s not enough to resist buying your daughter Barbie dolls and pants with the word “Princess” bedazzled in sequins across the front. You also resist referring to your daughter with feminine pronouns or gendered descriptors of any kind. That is, until your child identifies herself (or himself!) as such.

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You Never Call Them Smart
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You Never Call Them Smart

Sure, in your heart of hearts you know your little one is a supergenius, but you also know better than to raise a narcissist. You subscribe to child psychology journals, follow pediatric experts on Twitter, and read every behavioral and developmental study as soon as it’s published. No, you’re not smart for doing that — you’re hard-working.

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You Maintain Their Social Media Presence
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You Maintain Their Social Media Presence

Whether you have designated hashtags for your child or not, you don’t shy away from posting adorable snaps or paraphrasing hilarious exchanges. So what if by the time they’re an adult, every embarrassing moment of their upbringing will be carefully tagged and archived online? It’ll make prepping that rehearsal dinner slideshow that much easier!

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You Have Unknowingly Trained Your Baby to Use Technology
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You Have Unknowingly Trained Your Baby to Use Technology

That perplexing, will-we-live-to-regret-this moment when you discover your baby knows how to swipe an iPad but can’t quite figure out how to turn the page of a magazine? Yeah, you have it on video.

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You Take Kindergarten Readiness Prep Classes
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You Take Kindergarten Readiness Prep Classes

You’re trying not to stress out over the fact that your toddler hasn’t mastered spoken-word poetry quite yet. Just because you started printing off the “Is Your Child Ready For School?” checklists when you were six months pregnant, doesn’t mean your tyke is actually behind.

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You Feed Them Nothing but Organic
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You Feed Them Nothing but Organic

You wouldn’t dare feed your baby out of a (gasp!) Gerber jar, so you steam all your own organic, locally grown vegetables and puree them by hand. While eating Cheetos.

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You Take Baby Selfies
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You Take Baby Selfies

It wasn’t long ago when you were rolling your eyes at the 20-somethings who spent their entire nights out snapping pictures of themselves — you think the act is being called “taking a selfie,” right? Now, the self-taken cell phone photo is so ubiquitous, you take some with your kid on the regular.

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You Have 24,567 Photos but None Printed Out
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You Have 24,567 Photos but None Printed Out

Your baby had more pictures taken of him in his first year than you had in your entire lifetime, and it’s still not enough (despite what your iPhone storage space looks like). Too bad all the picture frames in your house still have photos of you from college. You’ll get that jump drive to Walgreens 1-Hour Photo eventually . . .