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February 25th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized 6 Comments »
We started a blog for Sally last week. The URL is theordinaryprincess.com. So far she’s been excited about it, although one day she did ask me why we blog. It’s funny, because Jane and I both blog fairly regularly. Now Sally blogs too. Just today she was complaining that Mom didn’t help her on the computer and she didn’t get to write her post for the day. Seven years old, and already concerned that she didn’t get to write her daily post!
I think a blog can be a tremendous tool for teaching kids to write. Sally enjoys writing and getting comments, as well as participating in the same activities as Mom and Dad. We are strangely becoming a blogging family. We’ve always been writers, and now Sally is showing to be a real bookworm, just like Jane. Man, if I had been introduced to blogging at the age of seven, how would that have changed my life?
Jane uses pseudonyms for our family, so I’ve decided to do the same. At first I really hated being called Dick. Now I think it’s funny. It provides some distance between reality and the written word, and it reminds me that what we write is a construct of how we perceive reality, rather than how reality actually may be.
To be consistent, and as a companion to Jane’s blog, whataboutmomblog.com, I’ve adopted the same pseudonyms.
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That is great! I agree, blogging is a good avenue to develop writing and thinking skills.
do you remember you sent me something about the 13 ways to communicate? this was back when we were dating and were so excited to explore the element of communication we would add on our wedding day (being good little Mormons).
do blogs fall into one of those categories, or is this a new way to communicate? my love.
I have totally forgotten about this. You’ll have to remind me. What was that, ten years ago or something?
Oh wait, it’s coming back to me. Now I remember the extra element of communication.
sally asked me if there was a way to respond to comments today. (i told her by email or comment back — i still think the email response might be better, but i don’t know if you set her blog to automatically subscribe commenters to the comment feed. you should do a poll on your blog about which method of response commenters prefer).
smart kid!
when are you going to write some more of these intelligent, fascinating posts?
I haven’t set up her blog with the Subscribe to Comments plugin yet.
Thanks for staying aware of my blog, Jane. I’ve been busy trying to finish a work project, but then I’ll post more, including family thoughts.
Back to comments, I still prefer them below the post because they not only gather more keywords for the blog, but also provide more interest to the readers. You can read the post and everyone’s thoughts on the post, and people can respond to each other as well.
Hi there peeps i hope you dont mind me leaving you a little comment about your site.. Its great that you have got your daughter into blogging and i totally agree that it helps them with there writting and the way they think about things one of my daughters is 8 and loves the compter . I have found that since she been using it her writting and spelling has come on leaps and bounds so great job you for getting her to blog .. x