To start off my series on blogging as a birth parent, I'm going to spend an entire week looking at the "pros" that come with the territory. (You may be forward thinking enough to guess that I'll hit on the negatives next week.) I thought I'd start off this week with a brief "positive message" to get everyone in the right frame of mind.

Blogging is what you make of it. You also get out of it what you put into it.

There's a lot of meaning in those two sentences.

Blogging can be negative and bad if you put a lot of negativity and general "gunk" out on the web. I'm not saying that your words need to be rainbows and sunshine. Mine are not always! However, blogging is just not solely about what we write but how we interact with others. If you are writing a negative post or a post dealing with issues that the world perceives as negative, others may respond in a negative way. Here's the tip: you don't have to respond in a negative way.

"Blogging is what you make of it." When someone starts throwing lemons at you, make some lemonade. As cheesy as that sounds, it's the best way to function in the give-and-take world of blogging and commenting.

Furthermore, you do get out what you put into it. If you're out, commenting on others blogs, with an overtly negative tone or one of disrespect, those bloggers and the other commenters reading your comments are going to treat you negatively and with a tone of disrespect. Flip that around: if you are commenting with a tone of respect, others are going to treat you with respect. It's really that simple.

Later today I'm going to write about the first thing I consider a "pro" when it comes to blogging as a birth parent. (Also, as a hint, it's not just only birth parents or adoption bloggers who benefit from this particular pro!) Be sure to tune in!

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