International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Sunita and Poonam Malik

abstract
In this digital era, first-time parents actively use smartphone programs, or "apps," to help them adapt to their new roles as parenting tasks may be difficult. These days, tech-savvy parents use apps to do a lot of things, like obtaining information, monitoring their child's growth, editing and sharing images, and much more. The main aim of the present study was to analyze the content of various available toddler parenting apps and to assess the need for apps for mothers of toddlers. We studied two types of samples: digital and human. The digital sample comprised of 40 toddler parenting apps available for free download on the Google Play Store. The human sample consisted of 120 mothers of 2-4-year-old children. These mothers were selected from Hisar city in Haryana state. The women were approached through the OPD of two hospitals in the city. The results of the study revealed that the majority of the apps did not have information on various aspects of toddler parenting, such as growth and development, toddler health, and nutrition, whereas the majority of the respondents felt strong need for information on these aspects. All the respondents expressed a need for a toddler parenting app covering all the aspects. So, the relevant government agency should develop a toddler parenting app of their own for toddler’s mothers that provides information on all aspects of toddler parenting.