The Computer for Children Project

Part seven of my seven part series: Why you should let your children blog.

7. Blogging can make your child a better person.

Creativity expands to your child’s limits. Writing about about something interesting gets the creative juices flowing. And children and teens need outlets for their energy, creativity and burgeoning independent individualistic spirits.

Blogging can be an extracurricular activity that keeps them busy.

Regularly maintaining a blog—writing new posts, responding to comments, researching information to provide on the blog, adding new pictures and videos, etc—is a great lesson/opportunity for responsibility and discipline.

Part six of my seven part series: Why you should let your children blog.

6.  Practice communicating

This is separate from writing skills. The ability to write at it’s most basic is the ability to express an idea. Communicating in real life is often so much more than using words in the proper order–it is explaining, teaching, persuading, arguing and so on.

Refine skills of dealing the with others with confidence. Answering questions authoritatively, giving advice, dealing with conflicting opinions (within reason).

Work collaboratively. If working as a group on some group blogs, reinforces cooperative collaboration.