Kids, email and domains

By admin

I was browsing my google reader the other day and found this awesome post on Dad-O-Matic:
Why Your Infant Needs Gmail – where it’s suggested that you create an email address for your child and send them messages on a regular basis.

I instantly obtained kaiuscooper@gmail.com and suggested that his dad create one for him as well.

Working outside the house has honestly, so far, created a very bad strain on Kaius and I and our relationship… I hate it.  I feel like this will be a way for me to stay connected with him while I’m at work.  They don’t have to be huge long story emails and I know he won’t read them any time soon.  Just snippets, things he says or does that I don’t want to forget – I’m much better at digital versions of stuff like that than paper and pen versions.

Heather over at Dooce.com (one of my favorite blogs) writes a monthly letter to her daughter on her blog – not sure I can do that – I mean Heather how much do you bawl and laugh when you write those – I don’t even know you or your daughter besides via your blog and they turn me into a laughing human water fountain.

Awhile back I also purchased his domain name: KaiusCooper.com – I plan on putting a blog up there eventually and soon he’ll be either audio or video blogging about things he’s interested in.  This is going to be the way our kids connect with each other.

We live in a digital world and posting videos, sending emails and the like are SO easy to do compared to when we were kids, I can’t imagine not using these things (even if you don’t publish them to a website).  I have tons of video and pics that aren’t online (tons that are too!).

So two suggestions… go get your kid an email address (and send them emails) and get their domain name (I use DomainSite.com for about $8 USD and receive no monetary reward for suggesting them).

Enjoy!

PS… stay tuned for some WordPress articles – I have a bunch written, just have to fine tune and post them