Luckily the blog service I was using went our of business which allowed me to regain my senses somewhat, and then discontinue dumb kid-related blogging. To each their own though.

I’m reminded of a letter I wrote (never published) to Creative Computing magazine many years ago. I was responding to an article written by the father of a five year-old who was arguing that age 5 was not too young for a child to use a computer. I pointed out how easy it is to underestimate the ability of a child. I used my son as an example, explaining how he was learning his alphabet using a letter identification program on my TRS-80 Model I. He was allowed to play his “game” any time the computer was not being used. He only had to ask, and I would bring it up for him. He was not, however, allowed to touch my floppy disk storage box at any time. One day I entered the computer room and saw him standing on a chair and pawing through my floppy disks. Instead of barging in and yelling at him, I watched quietly from the doorway. He found the disk with his game on it, took it out of its envelope, put it in the disk drive right side up, and rebooted the system, thereby bringing up his game. I realized then how much I had underestimated his ability to use the computer on his own. I will always (easy to say now) remember the closing sentence of my letter – “Tommorrow will be his second birthday”.

My opinion is that as babies, there\’s not much harm in blogging/tweeting/posting photos, but as they get older, that line will start to blur. Once the kid reaches an age where they\’ll start to remember the events you\’re talking about, that\’s when I start to wonder how much sharing is ethical.

That said, if you started a Nora blog, I would of course eat it right up.