How do you pull a blogger out of a tailspin? Not chocolate, not diamonds, not swedish massage from brawny blond masseurs (although if you’re looking for suggestions, all of these are certainly acceptable second-string choices.)<\/p>\n
No, if you really<\/em> want to cheer up a blogger with attention-junkie disorder, give her validation by putting her name AND her blog link in print in a major parenting magazine.<\/p>\n My friend, fellow blogger and parenting author extraordinaire Ann Douglas <\/a>has written an article for the summer issue of Canadian Family <\/a>magazine on mom blogging and mom blogs, featuring quotes from Marla <\/a>and Jen <\/a>and, um, who was that other one? The one with the lead quote in the article? Oh yeah, me! I can’t find the article online just yet, but if they do put it up I’ll be sure to let you know. The article is a good exploration of why moms blog, and gives a balanced insight into both the highs and potential lows of blogging.<\/p>\n The irony is that in the lead quote (I’m going from memory here, having forgotten my copy at home) I called the momosphere a kind of massive parenting manual, where there is no question that can’t be answered with a search engine and a bit of patience. I wasn’t sure that the blogosphere could resolve my current daycare situation, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. In the process, I’ve invented a new tool: blog search as oracle.<\/p>\n Key your question into the search engine of your choice. Google’s <\/a>blog search would work, but I wanted to narrow my search down to advice from the parenting blogs so I used Scribbit’s <\/a>parenting blog search tool way down there there on my sidebar.<\/p>\n I keyed in “will my search for daycare end well?” and scanned the results <\/a>for the words “yes” or “no”. (I used “find” from the IE toolbar menu to make sure I didn’t miss anything.) The oracle of parenting blogs confirms that YES, the search for daycare will end well. Phew, that’s certainly a load off my mind!<\/p>\n Thanks, as well, to the Huffington Post<\/a>, who linked to all the posts on the MotherTalk Blog Bonanza on Fearless Friday<\/a>, including the post <\/a>I wrote about Tristan on two wheels.<\/p>\n Now, excuse me while I go use my new blogosphere-as-oracle trick to see if the Sens are going to defeat the Ducks in five games or seven…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you pull a blogger out of a tailspin? Not chocolate, not diamonds, not swedish massage from brawny blond masseurs (although if you’re looking for suggestions, all of these are certainly acceptable second-string choices.) No, if you really want to cheer up a blogger with attention-junkie disorder, give her validation by putting her name … Continue reading “Now appearing in Canadian Family magazine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}