At the end of one full week of blogging with my son I am seeing some things that work, some things that don’t, and a lot of things that will develop as time goes on. I started writing a Top 10 type blog post and then stopped myself. After all, I have a grand total of one week of experience observing how my son approaches blogging. So instead of claiming to have advice to offer others I would rather gather information from others that are doing this!
With that said, I would like to start gathering stories and experiences from other parents with young bloggers. Here are some things I’d be interested in hearing.
- At what age did your child begin blogging?
- Was starting a blog his/her idea or did you suggest it?
- How involved were you in the beginning
- How involved are you now.
- How often does your child post?
- What types of things does your child write about?
- Is the blog public or private?
- What blogging platform is the blog using?
- Do you have any advice regarding kids and blogging that would be useful for other parents that are considering it for their own children?
- If you are comfortable, leave the URL of your child’s blog. I would love to share it with my son.
Alternatively, if your child does not have a blog tell me about how you think blogging would (or would not) be a good thing for kids to be involved in.
You can leave a comment on this post or use the contact link at the top of the page. I hope to get a lot of responses! I think the information gathered here will be very useful as I plan to spend a lot of time writing about this subject over the next several months (and hopefully beyond!)

I come from pretty humble beginnings and, for most of my childhood, life consisted of myself, my Mom, and 2 sisters with special needs. Partly due to circumstance and partly due to the way I’m wired I learned to do things for myself. Why have someone else do something when you can do it for yourself, right? I have difficulty asking for help and even more difficulty delegating work when the help is available to me.
I’ve known for awhile that, if I really want to make a go at blogging, there needs to be some compensation involved. With this in mind I set out to see what could be done, as a new comer with few visitors, to set up some potential revenue streams. Once a blog gains some staying power in terms of both content and traffic it is easier to gain acceptance with some of the advertising networks with more stringent guidelines.
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