... it is my place to keep up with family and friends, and it is my place to talk about DD, because as a proud parent, I am mindful of the fact that I can't share in real life with many other people without being perceived as bragging even though they can share about their kids all day long.
I see your point about sharing with family/close friends, but I guess my point is that you may have
set out to share with just these people, but you're probably sharing with many others. A blog is public. Anyone can read it --- and that includes the people you said you can't talk to in real life.
There are apps with privacy settings out there (e.g. Facebook) that only let certain people in. Why choose a public blog over something with privacy settings? Or email? Etc. There are so many options.
Your daughter is very young and has no idea about how cruel people can be. Sure, she may think it's nice for you to put her pictures, etc. up for grandmother to see, but I doubt that she understands that
anyone on the planet with an internet connection can
also see that stuff, and that there are real consequences of that fact. What if people you or she knows read your blog and someone starts to tease her? Thanks to apps like the Wayback Machine,
nothing on the internet goes away. Do you really want to risk the possibility that private stuff about her will surface when she's ten or eleven? I would have been mortified if my LOG or anything private about me was publicly available for anyone to read --- and I had no control over it.
You said you can't say things about her to people around you, but if you're using real names, what's to stop these folks from reading the blog too? How might they react to it? What if people around town start talking about her/you? IMO, your artwork and life in Alaska are different from private information about your daughter's cognitive abilities.
I feel the same way about Joyce Slaton's blog. Use it as an example: that entry she wrote is going viral among a number of gifted groups, and now
lots and lots of people know that she's disappointed about one pretty big thing about her (named) child. There's a high chance that this will get back to her daughter eventually. She revealed private information about her daughter to anyone in the world, and the little girl is the one who's going to have to live it down.
What if the I'm-tired-of-hearing-about-your-gifted-kid-types find your blog and make it go viral as an example of a bragging mom who wants to show everyone that her kid is better than theirs?
Public blogging about a child's giftedness (or lack thereof) may not seem negative to the writer, but the invasion of privacy and resultant damage are all in the eye of the person who was written about. And who now has no way to put the genie back in the bottle.
Just my 2c.
