do kids blog? - maybe Cam asks Do Kids Blog . Well I have a story that may answer this. Over the past few years, I have been a mentor at a local primary school, working with kids in Years 5 and 6 . I setup a simple site that resembled a blog, but didnt have any publishing system behind the scenes (unless you call notepad and ftp a publishing system). Towards the end of this program, I setup my own blogger site and I encouraged my mentees to use blogger and write about any stuff, and suprisingly a number of them actually did. Oscar, Michael and Jason all started a blog. Most of them focused on style issues, such as putting images on, adding music etc, but some also started writing . Some of it was disturbing. Unfortunately once the mentoring sessions stopped, so too did the blogging. The kids were doing it not for themselves, but for me. This year, I am trying to encourage my two eldest sons ( Antony & Billy ) to blog. I am sure I will get them Conclusion - kids will blog, if they are motivated. Comments Anonymous March 09, 2004 Well, I don’t have a whole lot of motivation, but, I do run www.briandesmond.com/blog , and I do happen to be 16. Anonymous March 09, 2004 Good for you Brian! the kids i was mentoring were 10 and 11 - still easily distracted with other more intersting things. Anonymous February 13, 2006 I went to the parent’s orientation meeting for Billy’s new school last week. The session opened with… Additional resources Last updated on 2004-03-09