Dear Karina: Using The Internet To Connect With Young Children

I’m back in here — I’ve been working on my own personal history in relative silence for a while, and I think I had some breakthroughs in developing a framework that helps me — and everyone, really — put their own personal history in the hands of others.

A recent commercial by Google’s Chrome browser reminded me of this — I’m linking to it below, it’s called “Dear Sophie”:
Dear Sophie

This pretty much captures the vision of what I want to create for my own children. I’m expecting our second baby any day/moment now (we’re three days overdue), and I think I’ll start our little Karina her own Gmail account to share with Daddy. I love the quick entries, the varying media used (everything from maps to scans to video & pictures), and how each one offers a different perspective on life growing up.

I wrote a while back about a “Hospital” playlist I used with our first child’s birth. I’m working on the second playlist right now, something that is unique to each child and they can carry with them for the rest of their lives, a Playlist From Birth. It’s little efforts like these that we, as parents, can do to create better connections with our children, at any age.