HW7: Should parents monitor

Emily Nussbaum’s “My so Called Blog”

In this chapter of Blog the question that comes up is, should parents monitor everything that their middle-school children write online? I believe it is a good learning experience for kids to write online. With today’s technology and the importance of computers, it will help them to become more familiar with ways to gain information and find helpful resources. Parents should acknowledge this and give the children space when concerning these areas of the internet. In the case of blogs, it will allow children to start a journal and express themselves in ways they hadn’t been able to before. However, there are different ways to one can view this. Expressing themselves can be good and bad depending on the situation. It can help them show there emotions and feelings in a healthy way or it could be in the form of argumentation and cause problems. Nussbaum’s article states, “ It’s a drama heightened by the fact that journals are linked to one another, creating a constant juxtaposition of posts among the students.” (Nussbaum, pg 355) If the children are going to use the blogs and cause arguments then yes parents should monitor their internet usage and make sure it is used correctly. Otherwise, the blogs are just creating drama and we all know how much drama already exists in the schools of today,