Establish rules for online use with your child and be diligent.

Screen what your child plan to post before they post it.

Ask yourself if you are you comfortable showing any of the content to public. If in doubt, take it out.

Evaluate the blogging service and find out if it offers private, password protected blogs.

Save the Web address of your child's blog and review it on a regular basis.

Check out other blogs to find positive examples for your child to set an example.

Never offer any personal information including names, contact information, home address, phone numbers, school's name, email address, last names of friends or relatives, instant messaging names, age, or birth date.

Be sure any images you provide do not reveal any of the previously mentioned information. Always remember to look at the background of a picture too.

Remember once publish on the Web is permanent. Anyone on the Internet can easily print out a blog or save it to a computer.

Use blogging provider sites with clearly stated terms of use, and make sure they can protect the actual blogs, not just the user accounts, with password protection.

Avoid trying to compete with other bloggers.

Keep blogs positive and don't use them for slander or to attack others.