Your child’s privacy
Posted on August 31, 2009 under Dads, Moms, School-AgeToday’s New York Times parenting blog touches on a sensitive topic — your child’s privacy. A natural reaction as a parent is to want to protect your child’s privacy no matter what. But, have you ever posted photos of your children on a Facebook or Flickr account? Have you revealed their names on a personal blog? What about Twittering your child’s bathroom woes? So many online tools exist to tempt us to publish information about ourselves and about our children. Yet, your child doesn’t have a say in what we share about them. How will this affect them down the road when they are preteens/teens/young adults and can Google themselves? What about when they apply for college or a job and their name is searched? So where do you draw the line between sharing your life and infringing on your children’s privacy? What do you say about them online? How do you share your life (and your child’s) in an appropriate way with others?
~Elise, babybites NJ
