China ‘parenting parents’ trend sees youth teach mums and dads modern skills like taking selfies

Young people in China are embracing a new trend of ‘parenting parents’ to heal wounds they inherited from childhood and redefine the traditional value of filial piety.Many have posted that they are ‘reparenting their parents’ on social media., the hashtag ‘reparenting parents’ has nearly 60 million views and 300,000 discussions on just one mainland social media platform.In much the same way their parents taught them how to walk, such people are teaching their elders modern ways of living, such as ordering food deliveries on mobile apps, taking selfies and following skincare routines.Young people, like the woman on the left above, are embracing the trend to reconnect with their parents. Photo: BaiduSome choose to share hobbies with their parents, as if they were their friends. They would snap up concert tickets for their parents or bring novel snacks back from a business trip for them.