Shiny, Happy People?

Writing a blog is a great opportunity to learn more about yourself.

Here are some questions, I can now answer:

1. How often would I check a website to see if people really like me?
2. Would I prefer that my kids’ behavior be angelic or blog-worthy?
3. Do I think blog entries are actually better when I download clip art from Google images?

But the question that I can now answer best is, “What kind of person do I attract?”

How can I find out the answer to that question? By looking at the search terms that lead people to my sight.  I can go to the site administration section of my blog to see which terms people have entered into their search engines to arrive at my site.

Here are a list of my favorites:

• homeschooled kids are incompetent
• homeschooled kids are weird
• weird homeschoolers (2)
• sarcastic reflections on life
• homeschool produces incompetent youth
• my son pees on his bedroom floor
• parenting boys and swordplay
• reasons not to homeschool
• miserable homeschooling
• homeschool crying
• kids think he´s weird
• amy chua is a self-absorbed narcissist
• is homeschooling making kids weird

I don’t know if you could come up with a simple category of people who tend to come to the site, but I think you could be fairly confident in ruling out cheerful, lighthearted, and affirming.

Is that a good thing?