Ruby’s Blog

 After reading the interviews of Waldman and Huffington I opted to respond to the statements of Ayelet Waldman. Waldman responds to questions referring to her discontinuance of her blogs. Waldman speaks of the ambivalence of motherhood, the struggles of everyday life as woman, and her personal life in great detail during the interview from Burstein. I agree with her decision she made to end her blogging career after she came to reality with her issues. I agree that Waldman made the right decision in retiring from blogging, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe otherwise. The well known “mommy blogger” had thousands of fans that were disappoint when she decided to stop blogging. As a new blogger myself, I hope to get comfortable enough with this form of expression where I can express personal opinions and feelings as Waldman once did. I’ve learned that blogging is a great tool for learning about others, but more importantly your self. Ayelet Waldman taught me to never indulge in your passions, but always stay grounded and never forget the important things in life.

I believe that parents should monitor everything that their middle-school children write online. With kids becoming more and more rebellious as time continues to change, you can never be too sure what they are doing. I believe in a certain amount of privacy, but only when you reach a certain level of maturity. As Emily Nussbaum states in this article referring to what kid’s blogs consist of:Peer into an online journal, and you find the operatic texture of teenage life with its fits of romantic misery, quick-change moods and sardonic inside jokes. Gossip spreads like poison. Diary writers compete for attention, then fret when they get it. And everything parents fear is true. (for one thing, their children view them as stupid and insane, with terrible musical taste.) (Nussbaum 351)

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