If you hang out on Facebook you'll know how much we moms love updating each other about our children. Its fun to share photos taken of your little pumpkins at their 3rd birthday party isn't it? Seems Totspot.com ( in beta but launching soon) is going to introduce a more powerful tool to brag, post and scrapebook about our children online.
We already have dogster.com and catster.com as social networking sites for pets, so really, it was only a matter of time.... But it does raise some interesting questions for me as I shared with a Toronto Star reporter. Will this site provide a veil for parents to further compete about their "uber-child"? Could published milestones for walking and talking encourage that competitive parent to push, just so they can post it?
I hope time strapped parents don't obsess and spend valuable time designing their child's home page instead of playing house with them, thinking that counts as parenting time.
But mostly I hope that parents will heed the same advice that I give my children: "remember its public". Some day your child will grow up and read what you have written about them. If it's notes of adoration, that is one thing, but some bloggers seem to find great enjoyment and cathartic relief in giving the daily accounts of the trails and tribulations of parenting their youngsters. "Will this little monster ever let me sleep?" "I am tired of having my nipples chewed on - why won't she take the bottle!!!" Hmmm..... I wonder how I would feel about myself and my mother if I read daily accounts like this about my childhood? Worth thinking on...
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