Blog Review

For this weeks post I decided reviewing another blog about Single Parenting. The blog I picked out to review is called “Single Parents Town”. I provided a link below if you would like to check it out. I found this blog helpful in many ways. The main author of the blog is Bill McLeod who is a single parent of two children. I found that this blog was well written and had a variety of different post that may interest you.  Bill explains on his blog that there were three reasons for starting this blog.

The three reasons are stated here:

1.  “To support single parents across the country as they face the challenges, fears, and joys of single parenthood.”

2.   “To inspire and motivate parents to be an excellent role model for their children.”

3.   “To provide a source of services, advice, and resources to help organize and balance their life.”

Bill has set up a section on the blog so that others may send him their stories and have him share their experience on his blog. If you currently do not have a blog and/or would like to help others by sharing your story this would be a great place to go and check out further information. The way that he has things setup on this blog for posting purposes is that there is a separate post each day from one of his chosen writer. Each of his writer or as her refers to as “experts” has a particular day that they write on.

            I decided to review one of the posts a little further than the others that I had read. I wanted the see if it had any reliable research done on it or if it was just simply written by experience. The post that I reviewed was called “Have you tapped into your child’s imagination lately? By Scott Deetz”. This post was based on his own experience and his own feeling on how imagination is important to your children. I believe even though this post was not supported by much research it could still be helpful. I found an article that talks about how important imagination is for a child to support his thoughts. In this article it talks about how a child using imagination can be a huge benefit. The author states “Children use cognitive imagination when they reproduce actions with substitute objects (for example feeding a doll) and affective imagination when they reproduce their own feelings”(Diachenko, 2011). There are also many other articles and researchers that have proven the effectiveness of imagination in children and how it either benefits or helps the child.

            In conclusion, I believe that this blog has many positive posts and very good information to read and compare to. Although “Single Parents Town” blog is not fully backed up research I still believe it has many useful and great lessons to learn. Bill is a single parent himself and the other contributors to the blog have great insights as well. Experience is always something that can teach and show people things. I hope that this has helped and if you have any question or another blog you would like to know more about just let me know.

References:

Diachenko, O. M. (2011). On major developments in preschoolers' imagination. International Journal Of Early Years Education, 19(1), 19-25

Single Parents Town Blog Link: http://www.singleparentstown.com/blog/2013/03/02/scott/have-you-tapped-into-your-childs-imagination-lately-by-scott-deetz/

By Courtney