Funny how there isn’t really a “daddyblog” epithet (maybe it’s “fantasy sports league” instead?).

In terms of personal blogs, I’m a candidate for the world’s smallest target audience. I created a blog for my parents, who are 88 and 94. They’ve been online for six years or so, but couldn’t get the hang of filing email and couldn’t always open (let alone retrieve) attachments.

So I created a blog and put a shortcut on their desktop. Every morning, my dad turns on the PC, clicks the shortcut, and reads the latest “letter.”

My children, who between them have nine blogs of their own, are authors on this one, so they too can write notes, post photos, etc.

The point of this description: I carefully separate this highly personal blog from my more public one. I don’t give out the name of my parents’ blog, let alone the URL, and on the server I tell webcrawlers to skip it.

…I do think there’s a big difference between “mom” and “mommy” (the same with “dad” and “daddy”). The diminutive is usually inappropriate in most business/professional settings — you wouldn’t want your adult co-worker to call you “mommy” or “daddy.”

It helps, I think, not to think of yourself that way in terms of your blog (unless, of course, you want to).

Just as mom writers and entrepreneurs are far different today than days past, the most effective moms (and dads!) and schools are actually changing the volunteer model to fit a more modern lifestyle. No longer is it required to give 30 hours per week of unpaid volunteer hours to be involved at school. The key — just like with balancing “mom writing” vs “writing” — is to find the mix that works for your lifestyle and goals.

Tim Sullivan
http://www.back2school2007.com

I have no answers yet, either – but I sent a trackback your way. I’ve been very grateful to see your reader comments on this post, as they are a good gauge for me to understand perceptions without my own reader loyalties mixed into the reaction (hope that made sense).

Anyway, I wanted to say thanks for bringing up the subject over here – and I hope the conversation continues as I’m incredibly interested in the evolution of the topic!

Warm regards, Wendy Piersall

Back in January, I had a blogging epiphany. Traffic had been on a steady decrease for a while and it wasnt recovering from the holidays. I took a look at my stats and had a big duh moment. I saw that my blogging category was the to…

I’ve been digging inside myself for where this comes from, and after a few days of reflection some of the pieces are starting to get clear. I don’t have children, I don’t think I wanted them, but I was not in a relationship where it would be a good idea until I was 40. I was too busy doing other things, and then it was too late. Almost like I forgot.

It’s not always easy being a childless woman, and while I feel mostly OK with it and certainly know I could adopt if I wanted to, I feel totally left out when I am with women doing Mom talk. It’s not that I don’t want to hear about it per se, I just don’t know what to say. It’s a foreign world, so there isn’t much to engage me.

I guess the bottom line for me is I can embrace a small percentage of Mom talk in the business context, but it’s not an identity I can connect through. You seem to maintain a great balance, which works for me.

Christine

As a former corporate person who has witnessed this split, lived this split…I offer this- if one discounts any aspect of their life, pushes it into the shadow then that life suffers, because you are not really being you. How then are you living an Authentic Life?

Bottomline:
I am a woman.
I am a wife.
I am a mother.
I am an entreprenuer.
I am a business woman.
I am a writer.

Who are you? Who, who, who, who?Who are you? Quick, what comes to your mind? Roger Daltrey and the lads or William, Marg, Jorja and CSI? Who are you and what characteristics do you want associated with Brand You? Just