Is Blogging Self-Indulgent? Top Mom and Dad Blogs.

Today I read a great post by Lisa Belkin on her favorite mommy and daddy blogs. As I looked through the comments, one particularly bitter reader caught my eye:

“No doubt we live in an age of voyeurism. Many of us obviously like to peek in on others’ lives, or at least what they describe as their lives. And then there are those who feel the need to talk about their own lives as if they’re more important or interesting than everyone else’s. I guess this is really what blogging is all about. Everyone becomes an expert just because they live and have experiences. God, how boring.

Bur what I want to know is how all of you have the time to read all of this self-indulgent pablum.

— dave”

I responded as follows with my comment:

“I think many of the women and men who put it out there in these blogs are fabulous role models on a number of levels. The women’s leadership project I run project deals with role models, so, I was particularly amused by the “indulgent” comment above. If talking about your experiences and lessons-learned is indulgent, then, I encourage everyone to have an all you can eat buffet on http://www.HotMommasProject.org. You’ll can indulge yourself right into a major textbook and help women, girls, and educators in the process.

Nice work Lisa

Kathy and The Hot Mommas Project team”

As mentioned in one of our insider blog posts, the social media community is THE BEST THING that has happened to our project: The Hot Mommas Project. Here you have a community of people self-identifying themselves with a “yes”. Yes, they are willing to share. Yes, they are willing to learn. Yes, they want to connect. However you view this community, it is a tough-sell to unilaterally say these behaviors are a bad thing.

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Below please find a list of blogs mentioned in Lisa’s post:

Lisa Belkin writes for
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/

Belkin recommends

http://www.babble.com/ (see essay section)

http://www.babycenter.com/

http://crashcoursewidow.blogspot.com/

http://www.dailycoyote.net/

http://dooce.com/

http://hannahandlily.blogspot.com/

http://henrystrongingoldberg.blogspot.com/

http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/

http://www.mama-is.com/

http://www.mattlogelin.com/

http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/
http://www.mommytrackd.com/
http://www.motherhoodlater.com/

http://www.pleasestoptherollercoaster.com/about
http://www.urbanbaby.com/
http://www.ivillage.com/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/parenting/

http://stephanieklein.blogs.com/greek_tragedy/

http://svmomblog.typepad.com/nyc_moms/
http://svmomblog.typepad.com/50somethingmoms/
http://svmomblog.typepad.com/deep_south_moms/
http://www.thecowgoddess.com/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

Readers recommend
http://moms.alltop.com/

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The Hot Mommas Project is an award-winning leadership initiative raising self-efficacy of women and girls through exposure to role models. We produce case studies showing the full range of factors influencing a woman’s success. We are housed at the George Washington University School of Business and are the recipient of a 2006 Coleman Foundation National Case Award. Learn more at http://www.hotmommasproject.org/ and through this personal letter.

If you want to participate in the project and impact education: NOMINATE a role model (yourself included) by emailing the Hot Mommas Project TODAY.

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