The reason I don't refer to my children by their true names

This post was originally a part of my A little about me & my family post but I felt that it was so important that it needed it's own post.

The first thing you may notice, if you know myself or family personally, is that on my blog I name my children with pseudonyms. Names that are not their true names. The reason for this is privacy. I intend for this blog to be a very personal place for me to write and in doing so I need my children's privacy to stay intact. At the time of writing this, my children are 6, 4 and 2. Currently anything I write about them here or anywhere on the Internet, any information I give out to you, does not affect them. But that wont always be the case. When they are older and start using the Internet, and their friends use the Internet, it will then become, to a certain supervised extent, their choices as to what will be publicly given about themselves. It would not be fair to them, for me to just hand over any information I like, and if I did use their true names, their friends would be able to just google them and find all this information at their fingertips.

For this reason I ask that if you know my children, please, do not refer to them here, or anywhere that I have not, by their true names. 

Thank You.


Yours in this crazy world of parenting,

Sami :-)