Recently, it appears everybody owns a blog – professionals, identity-seeking teenagers and even a celebrity wannabe can get noticed through blogging. Sure, that word blog was not part of the vocabulary in your own time, so you may want to find out what it means for your child to be a part of this medium.
These questions are no longer new to me. No worries if your child is involved in blogging, it is healthy for a pre-teen or teen that is growing through a teenage stage to blog.
Blogging helps teenagers build a social network, and also help them vent out the frustrations that accompany that stage of life. Well, it is normal for parents to get concerned about their kids’ involvement in any internet-related activity. Thus, we will discuss some of the major pros and cons of blogging.
The Attitude Called “Me”
Put softly, an insider view into the lives of a lot of people has been made possible via reality TV. Each time we tune in weekly to watch, ‘everyday’ people receive unusual volume of attention from us. In the similar way, is being in the spotlight the dream of your child?
Everybody wants to be noticed. That important feeling makes your child happy, just thinking that millions of people all over the world are logging on to explore his brain work. Well, there’s a common phenomenon which I have observed in today’s kids – at least a large number of them. They have the tendency of acting arrogantly as a result of high sense of entitlement. However, you can work on such child, so that healthy self-respect instead would replace that sense of entitlement. You may discover that the show-off blog at your child’s possession is a way of filling in other vacuums such as insecurity feeling.
Intimidation on the Internet
On the other hand, the internet bullies can make blogs their haven. Being rude on the other side of the PC screen can come so easy; thus, teens may use blogging as means to degrade or attack the reputation of others. Investigate if your child is being bullied on the internet, or is involved in bullying others over the internet so that you can put a stop to it. Inculcate the habit of respect to others in your kid, whether or not such kid is getting respect from others.
Blogging can be a powerful way for a kid to come to the limelight, you also need to watch it so that they don’t use it as an avenue to be arrogant or rude.
credit to: Luigi Diamanti
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