There’s been some talk in the blogosphere about babies born with URLs already reserved for them. That’s fine and all, but there’s a reason to get your pre-reading child online that’s not just about reserving his or her Internet real estate. If you sign your kid up for an email address, you can send messages to his or her future self.
All those things that you aren’t writing in the baby book are candidates for an email to your child’s future inbox.
- Dear Julian, today you threw a tantrum like none other I have seen. You have impressed me.
- Dear Julian, today you said “Mama” in a way that told me you knew exactly how to use that word.
- Dear Julian, I’m on my first business trip away from you, and it’s not half-bad.
Let’s face it, handwriting in baby books is old school. Screen-based communication is what our kids are going to expect. This is how their lives will be documented. Of course blogging about them is another choice.
If you are commited to the paper-based method, you can check baby’s inbox from time to time and print your messages out. Or, just wait. When these guys are old enough to open their inbox, they can read all the notes you wanted to send them when they were too young to understand. And hopefully, they won’t see your name in the “From” line and click “This is spam.”
For those of you considering the URL option, just remember that you may have another child someday and www.the-nguyens.com is going to make a lot more sense than www.owen-nguyen.com when Owen’s little sister comes along.
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So far, Holden has only received a bunch of evite invitations.
Ok, so I checked out http://www.aboynamedluke.com/ which is a redirect from http://www.lukeseeley.com from the articles… and, while there’s not a lot of content there, there is a link to contribute to Luke’s college fund. Genius!
I love this idea! Just what I need though, more reasons to be on the computer.
We are super geeky and we have URLs for both of our kids… we have infrequently-updated blogs there now and the grandparents check them now and again. Eventually, they’ll take them over and do whatever they want with them. And now that I think about it, the names we chose for our kids was partially affected by whether or not those URLs were available
Another twist on emailing your baby courtesy of FlagrantDisregard.
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