This is what my husband wrote about my excitement over his starting a blog:

“It means a lot to her to be able to share with ‘Big Daddy’ what has been ground shaking for her.”

He’s right on the 1^st account, and the 2^nd: I ABSOLUTELY love writing and reading blog(s). It is wonderful on so many levels: sociability, support group in a box, creativity, keeping up with news, networking, finding deals, and being an example to our children.

What? Why?

For this reason, now hanging over my computer:

“Blogs can assist the forward-thinking homeschooler and encourage the isolated mom, but the relationship between blogs and homeschools goes deeper than that, in my opinion. I see significant parallels between the two movements. Journalists and educators have a lot of power in our society; the two professions essentially shape what Americans think. When homeschoolers dared to teach their own, it drove the NEA crazy... and now that bloggers are in full swing, the mainstream media is feeling the heat. I see bloggers and homeschoolers as the two most obvious success stories in our post-modern world.”   -S. Somerville                     (emphasis mine)                

This quote is from one of several Scott Somerville interviews recently done.

The way I see it, if I am supporting my children in their blog experience, it is an avenue to teach what we’ve already been learning about being an informed, active citizenry; it also prepares them with a skill to develop and carry into their, and America’s, future.