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As I was having coffee with a mom friend, I witnessed her pick up her phone with a sigh: “That’s my daughter’s second poo today, and it’s only 10 a.m.”“I’m sorry?” I asked, like the provincial idiot that I apparently am.“How do you know how many poos she’s done?”What she showed me next frankly blew my mind: a daycare app so detailed that it would put most patient medical charts in a hospital to shame. In real-time, my friend was receiving updates on absolutely everything her child did, including (but not limited to!) what they ate, how much they ate, when they went to the toilet, when they fell asleep, when they woke back up against and who they were playing with. She was also being sent contemporaneous photos which she could scour for the slightest change in expression, outfit, or activity (“Oh,” she commented, as we were walking out of the cafe, “they’ve changed her pants!”)I have two kids in daycare, and I have never seen anything like it.From our daycare, I receive a weekly wrap-up, which sometimes – but not always – gets posted in the same week that the events it depicts occurred.I can’t deny that it’s beneficial to have an insight into what my kids are learning (not least so I have some context when my three-year-old son becomes suddenly OBSESSED with worms) and that it’s cute to see pictures of them playing with their friends.But that’s about where my engagement with the daycare updates stops. If I’m honest, I don’t even look at them all. I only recently realized that this isn’t the norm.Call me a bad parent, but I have absolutely no interest in knowing what is going on with my child while they’re at daycare. I trust our daycare educators implicitly.I don’t care what my kids are wearing, eating, or doing, or who they’re doing it with: I know they’re in the hands of capable, smart, and kind people. I’m actually relieved not to know because the days my boys are in daycare are the only d...