Intentional Blogging & Blogging Rules for Our Home
Posted By Jacque on July 15, 2006
I have long-felt that blogging can be an educational experience. This goes for me and our children. The only thing is, that, like most things that we start with the best of intentions… we need to do some Spring Cleaning – all year!
Lately, I have been convicted of our online time and the keeping up of our home, which is our love and intention…. *Did I say intention??* That is what I mean to be the priority…I do not want HomeKeeping to be a mere intention. I don’t want my relationship with the LORD to be something I remember as I slink into bed at night – or early morning – after blogging for several hours. I don’t want to say ‘Hi’ to Matt, my dh, in passing, between the computer and the dinner table. I don’t want tending my garden to be something I wished I had done better. I do not want my children to grow up thinking I HAVE to blog… or that they do! *I guess it’s kinda’ late for that, huh???*
I have seen bloggers leaving their blogs due to the demands it makes on their time. I have seen bloggers who have felt the need to take a hiatus, to regain their focus and their real lives. I think we all understand that blogging takes time. I don’t think any of us – homeschoolers, Believers, Titus 2 women – can afford to let it take over our lives. We have goals of training our children to be lovers of the One True God, Keeping our Homes and cherishing these moments. Somedays, I find myself sitting down at the computer and staying there too long.
I also want to be intentional with my blogging, because, I think that journaling and keeping record of our days is very important. I think it is important to our lives and to future generations. That is also why I scrapbook. However, if I sacrifice today and my relationships with My Lord and my loved ones; if I sacrifice loving, experiencing, and training our children, then recording all of this is rather futile.
To gain control of blogging a bit, we have set up 2 days a week for each of the girls to blog. They get 2 hours each day. They hated that at first, but it has worked out so far. 2dd15, Jocelyn, has a couple of American friends living in Turkey with whom she corresponds. She got the nicest letter from one of them who wrote about a blog she and her Mother are keeping as a nature journal. What a nice thought.
My intention for blogging was for the girls to journal about things like this – things they are learning or studying in addition to their other posts. I think they each have very nice blogs and most of their posts are thoughtful – or well-thought out.
I am the kind of person who wants to do thing intentionally. So, I have been re-thinking this blog. I have so many homeschool ideas and tips I want to get typed up for my own files that I know would be helpful or useful to others. I want to get those here on our Homeschool blog.
For the longest time, I have wanted to post recipes and other ideas… homesteading stuff – like the using cloth diapers, breastfeeding, home birthing, gardening, etc. Since I already have another at Homesteadblogger, I am going to start posting our homesteading and gardening, recipes, etc… on Homesteadblogger. I will link posts, though. There are a lot of homestead’y ideas on that site and blogs that I love to read about.
Until now, I have just been double-posting at HSB1 and HSB2. I have decided that I am going to put homeschool information here on HSB1, and Homestead information on HSB2. I will still post about our family in both . I also got the idea that I want to post some of my DD’s posts…
SuperAngel has some very well-written Bible verse/story posts, and
Jocelyn
has some wonderful ones on HomeKeeping.
Here are the new blogging rules of the house:
BLOGGING ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment must be 10 paragraphs long and include at least 3 sources. 2 from our bookshelves or public library and 1 may be from the internet.
You must make the post informative – like, Algebra works like this:. You may include pictures. You must spell everything correctly and not leave out words – in other words: THIS IS A WRITING ASSIGNMENT!
*There will be no blogging until your chores are done.
You will not be told what chores you have or thatthey need to be done.You have blogging privileges because you are mature enough to know what chores need to be done and how.
- Bible Verses and Studies
- A Historical Person, Place or Thing
- Homeschooling in America
- Animal Care
- Focus on Our Garden…. Pick a Veggie, tell All ‘Bout It
- Recipes
- Food – Health Benefits
- Medical/Health Natural Healing
- Child-Rearing
- Feminist Movement/ Keeper At Home
- Daily HomeKeeping Schedule
- Nature Study
- Any School Subject
BLOGGING RULES – 13 & over
- You MUST post a Bible-related post each time you post.
- 1/4 of your posts MUST be Assignments (from above) each week.
- You can only post about worldly topics, i.e. movies, etc. 1x every 2 weeks.
- You can post for 1hour online. They must be typed up prior to getting online and checked. All posts must be handwritten, prior to typing them up offline. You have varied amounts of time to work offline on these posts.
- You can comment for 30m. You have 2H/week design your blog. You can Blog design online for 1H and offline for 1H. Blog design offline includes working on Paint, photos, etc..
- You have nominal time to research your Assignments
- All posts must be done on the day PRIOR TO your blogging day.
- Special permissions will be granted to extend these times.
BLOGGING RULES – 9 -12
- You MUST post a Bible-related post each time you post.
- 1/2 of your posts MUST be Assignments (from above) each week.
- You can post for 30m online. They must be typed up prior to getting online and checked. All posts must be handwritten, prior to typing them up offline. You have varied amounts of time to work offline on these posts.
- You can comment for 20m. You have 30m/week online to design your blog. You can Blog design offline for 1H. Blog design offline includes working on Paint, photos, etc..
- You have nominal time to research your Assignments
- All posts must be done on the day PRIOR TO your blogging day.
- Special permissions will be granted to extend these times.
Blogging TIMESPosting: 7am Wed. Sat.
Post Deadlines: Tues. Fri.
Commenting:pm Wed. Sat.
Blog Design: Tues.
Posting: 7am Mon Thurs
Post Deadlines: Sun Wed.
Commenting:pm Mon Thurs.
Blog Design: Sat.
Posting: 7am, Tues Fri
Post Deadlines: Mon Thurs
Commenting:pm Tues. Fri.
Blog Design: Mon.
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