I have a dear friend that is working on her first blog. Isn't it amazing what a phenomenon blogging has become? It is such a fun way to keep family and friend connected. Whether you live in the same town or far away from one another. There are so many reasons people blog. Some to share fun family events, some use it as a journal, others a witnessing and encouraging tool. The possibilities are endless.
I told my friend some things I consider when writing a blog that I hoped would be helpful to her. One was that I did not put my entire name or the specific place I live. That just makes me feel safer knowing that anyone from the entire world could possibly be reading the blog. I know there are other people who only let people they know have access to viewing their family blogs.
Another thing I mentioned was, to think about the audience of your blog. In other words, before I write something, I imagine everyone I know reading it. Would they cringe and think..."Too much information.!!!" I have read some way too personal things on other people's blogs and thought, don't they know their MILs are reading that? HA!
I have recently started using blogs as a way to organize some of our homeschooling things and other things that I don't want to forget. I thought it would be too much disorder to just put it on one blog. These are mainly for me, so I will have the information neatly organized in a place I can refer back to as I homeschool all my children through the years. However if others can benefit from what I am putting together, that is great too. Here is a list of my new blogs if anyone is curious:
Helpful Homeschool Treasures: Internet resources I have found to help in homeschooling
Blog of Centuries: I plan to make an online record of all the historical things we learn about
East Texas Fun: I plan to list all the fun things to do and see in the East Texas and surrounding areas with an emphasis on FREE!
Callie and James have begged me to have their own blogs as well. I have put them off saying that we would just put everything on the main family blog. But now I have decided to go ahead and let them take ownership of their own blogs and use it as a learning tool. I think it will be great for Callie to practice typing out her thoughts and to practice spelling and sentence formation. I am going to do my best to have her do as much on her own as possible. I am hoping that this will be a completely child led learning activity. James' blog will mainly be a place for him to put all of his favorite and silly links.
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