I’ve been reading the Kenya Blog being hosted by the Winston-Salem Journal, and I’ve noticed that most of the comments are from parents of the kids who made the trip to Kenya and are the blogs contributors.
It never occured to me that one of the great applications for blogging could be staying connected with your kids. As a parent who will be seeing his kids off to summer camp for the first time next week I can tell you that I would love for them to have the chance to post pictures and write a paragraph or two about their day so that Celeste and I could share their experience without getting in their way.
Please do visit the Kenya Blog as I think you’ll agree that these kids are getting the experience of a lifetime, and their parents (not to mention the rest of us) get to share it with them in a way that would have been inconceivable a couple of years ago.
Now where’s that number for the summer camp…we have to talking to do!
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Hey John,
What an excellent idea — the major question is how many camps are equipped with easy internet access for their kids … doesn’t internet seem kind of against the idea of camp?
(I only ask because I don’t know these things, seriously, if your blog network site became known as the central resource for communicating with your kids while they were away, man, you could make some decent coin).
You bring up a good point Joe. I think it really depends on the camp. Last week we walked through a girls camp that my mom is thinking of sending my daughter and niece to, and they barely had electricity.
On the other hand there are probably tons of camps with internet access, computer camps being the most obvious.
I went to a summer camp as a kid that had all kinds of indoor activities (arts, crafts, shop, etc.) and I’d think that any camp that has those types of activities could benefit from a blog.
I like your idea about the network site, and in particular the coin:>