Sunday, January 25, 2009

Tech savvy kids. . .

Lance just returned from the CASE (Colorado Association of School Executives) conference in Denver. It seems the minute he walked back into the door we were thrust into the madness that encompasses parenting three active kids and have not had much time to visit. One thing he did mention was from a keynote speaker regarding children and the internet. The speaker said ( and I am paraphrasing something that was paraphrased for me), that we tell kids to "be safe" online but never teach them how. Lance then had the great idea that we allow our children to start their own blog. It accomplishes the goal of helping to teach safe internet usage while also helping us to encourage our pre-teen to do something other than game on the internet. Our children have run with the idea. Our nine year old, finally has an outlet for all the creative juices that flow in her brain and our 12 year old is writing! Levi also loves to sit down and work on his blog creations and daily wants to see if he has any followers yet. So, take a moment and check out our budding bloggers.

2 comments:

Tim said...

We love the idea of the kids blog. Looking forward to the next burst of creativity. The picture at the top of your blog is absolutely beautiful. Who took it? Love mOM

Fox said...

GREAT idea!! Just read all their posts --- so fun. Did your kids have as much trouble as we do arranging their pics??