Whit is not only a snarktastic genius over at Famecrawler, he also gives good blog over at Dadcentric. Recently, he explored the issues parents face when they choose to write publicly about the lives of their children. As we've recently seen, once pictures and stories enter the public sphere, all hell can break loose.
Whit rightly points out that sometimes we think we corner the market on exploiting our experiences as parents under the aegis of artistic expression, when in fact this has been going on forever. Look at the story of Christopher Robin...
AA Milne wrote the books of Pooh and used his own son as the model for Christopher Robin.. What follows from there is an unhappy ending, but I'll let Whit tell it....
But the bottom line is we aren't the first group of parents faced with judgment calls about what level of privacy and protection to grant our children in service to the art of blogging our lives (their lives). At what point does this become merely exploitation? At what point do we no longer own their story?
