Live Blogging BlogHer '08: Mommy Blogging: Public Parenting & Privacy
This one is going to be good. I will get called on this time, I SWEAR.
Link to panel here.
Crystal lost her son for ten years and she's still standing? My god.
Former cop? COOL.
Keeps all on the downlow.
Awesome blog title.
That's the panel.
Number one fear for kid's safety: predators, kidnapping, embarrassing the kids, stealing photos. From the audience. How it will affect the kids later. Being judged for how you parent.
Not sure I should be at this panel. Maybe I should have gone to the political one instead. It's interesting, and I know that people are worried about this, but I am just not one of them. Maybe I'm an idiot.
800,000 kids are abducted every year; 82% by people they know. So much for stranger danger.
I think I'm gonna switch panels. Is that rude?
I'm off.
***OMG, I'm going to make a video with Grover!***
I LOVED Jenny's take on this from a while back:
http://thebloggess.com/?p=487
I also don't keep my kids anonymous, much for the same reasons as you. And Jenny, ha.
Posted by: Toni | July 18, 2008 at 05:28 PM
It's too bad that they don't let you send in your comments via email or twitter or something, like they do on call in radio.
Posted by: Sarah | July 18, 2008 at 06:01 PM
I agree with you concerning the overestimation of stranger danger.
As long as your kid is a baby it's o.k. to publish photos,because they change so fast, but later it will be no longer o.k.. My 20 year old son would protest, that's for sure. So I won't show him. An "in-between-way" could be to show them from behind or the side or just the mouths of them (with missing teeth), which I saw the other day on her blog http://wouldashoulda.com/
Paula
Posted by: Paula | July 18, 2008 at 06:05 PM
Love the Grover video. Will definitely be doing that tomorrow. So nice to meet you.
Posted by: Ashley | July 18, 2008 at 06:18 PM
i linked to crystal's site from this post and then spent the next 2.5 hours reading posts 1-30 of her "Crazy Chronicles" - riveting. if you haven't read them, you should!
Posted by: camille | July 19, 2008 at 09:09 AM
where's your grover video? And I think it might have been the HIGHLIGHT of my trip.
Posted by: Catherine | July 24, 2008 at 05:26 PM