The real power of parenting and mommy bloggers isn’t their scale, the fact they’ve self-organised, or the speed with which they react.

It’s the fact that anyone looking after children at home has the motivation and energy to write entertaining content at all – it’s the perfect example of how strong the desire for connection, self-expression, self-employment and identity can be.

(If you can’t guess, I’ve spent the first day in while looking after my son while his mother went to work. He was a complete angel despite the fact he’s suffering with conjunctivitis, but I’m still exhuasted despite the fact our crowning achivement was getting dressed and out of the house early enough to get some shopping!)

Even after all this time, I’m still discovering new blogs by people in circumstances which make you amazed they find the time and energy to get in front of the computer, whether it’s looking after a child, or coping in an amazingly comedic way with Hodgkins Lymphoma (a type of cancer).

It’s why any attack which lumps together bloggers as one generic collection of amateurs is idiotic and insulting (such as this brilliant rebuttal by Danny Sullivan to a collection of newspaper idiocy, include the Editor-in-Chief of the Wall Street Journal on media bloggers). Especially when organisations such as Associated Press are sending cease-and-desist letters to their own affiliates for posting videos from their official Youtube channel.

Yours,

An exhuasted blogging dad. Who still has to tidy the house and clean the dishes to match up to what his wonderful partner achieves every day when she’s at home…