Blogs For Children

[Nephylim]

My son, who is 10 really really wants to blog.

 

I have spent the best part of the afternoon trying to find a place he can blog.

 

I keep finding sites that are either incredibly complicated to use, or seem to be aimed at adults, or cost a load of money.

 

Does anyone have any recommendations about somewhere he can blog happily and easily. He's not stupid when it comes to the internet but his mother is.

[Former Member]

Have you tried blogger.com? It's the simplest setup that I know of. Though I don't know of that many blogs.

[Former Member]

It's free. You just need a google account to open one up.

 

 

[K.C.]

My daughter is 12 and we don't let her blog. She is on facebook and I've checked all of her security settings. I also have her password and have deleted anything that I felt needed to be removed.

 

I don't know of any bloggs for kids. sorry!

[Bumblebee]

its not really a blog but how about tumblr?

[intune]

What about livejournal? You sign up by age and they restrict your viewing of pages that are labeled age inappropriate. Plus I believe it's still free.

[Nephylim]

Thanks so much everyone.

 

Check out Death Knight's blog on Blogger.com He hasn't written one yet but watch that space

 

Just for information livejournal now has an over 13 policy

[sucre]

I did some research and found a site that is child appropriate for blogging. It's www.kidswirl.com, which is basically a social networking site for children. It keeps parents in touch with what their kids do there, so that's a plus. My other advice is to maybe set up a blog with your son and watch closely what he does. Despite age filters on sites like livejournal, it's very easy to gain access to 18+ content when not logged in with the press of a button.

[Nephylim]

we tried kidswirl but to be perfectly honest it was so complicated not even I could work it out and we couldn't work out how to blog. Never mind, he's happy now.

 

Thanks so much for all the suggestions