3 Ways to Share Your Parenting Journey with Friends and Family
When you were a baby, your mom and dad took pictures of you with a clunky film camera and made some grainy home movies of your first words and steps that were difficult to share with family and friends. But now that you are a mom, technology has made it much easier to share your little one’s adorable moments with others. While it’s fun to post a few mom and baby selfies on Facebook to let everyone get to know your adorable new family member, you can also up the ante a bit by creating your own blog, video or memes.
Start a mommy blog
Share your parenting journey with others and launch your own blog. Visit WordPress.com or Blogger.com to access free blog hosting and start the blog using their suggested steps. These sites tend to make it pretty easy for blogging newbies and sleep-deprived moms to get the blog up and running fast. Free hosting is also a great option if you want your blog to primarily be seen by appreciative grandparents, friends and other family members. Next, choose a catchy name for your blog; you can include your kiddo’s name and yours or do something more general like MommyMusings or Tales from Diaperland.
Now comes the fun part—the writing. When your baby does something new, funny or touching, take a few minutes to write about it. Instead of trying to copy another blogger’s style, which will ultimately slow down the writing process, be yourself. Update your blog whenever you can and let your appreciative audience know through emails or posts on social media.
To make your blog look as visually appealing as possible, add in plenty of photos and videos. If you are not comfortable using videos of your own child on your blog, you can use professional stock video from a website like Shutterstock to complement your musings on motherhood. Adding videos is one of the best and most visual ways to portray feelings and events, and will really help to liven up your blog and entice people to read your stories.
Create keepsake videos
Thank goodness you no longer have to deal with a heavy video camera and a tangle of wires to capture what your little one is up to. Thanks to an innovative free app, called “Day One,” you can easily craft and share professional-looking videos right from your phone. The app works with iCloud and has a publish feature that lets you post your videos on your website, Facebook or Twitter. This means when you take a video of your child’s first dance recital or homerun, you can instantly share it with all of your family and friends.
Make some memes
Memes have become incredibly popular on social media sites. Generally speaking, memes are pictures with clever or funny captions that spread from blog to blog or throughout social media. Capitalize on this craze by making memes with your baby as the star. IMG Flip lets you upload your own photos and add text to them; once you have the meme ready, you can post it on social media. For example, if your baby is trying avocado for the first time and is making hilarious expressions, snap a shot of her adorable food-covered face and add in text like “Next time, let’s order pizza” or whatever else you want.