Daddy Brad: Welcome back to the lounge I’m Daddy Brad.

Daddy Clay: And I’m Daddy Clay - this week the lounge is brought to you by Baby Banz - amazing sun protection for your little ones - Baby Banz. This week we are talking a little bit about privacy online, parenting conversations, and sharing information about you and your parenthood online.

There is a lot of bloggers out there – there’s a lot of people participating conversations out there about parenting. is it cool to share information about your kids, pictures whatever online?

Daddy Brad: You know obviously I do that now, I’ll share pictures and personal stories about what happens everyday at the house- you know funny, interesting things and I feel comfortable doing that especially at Dad Labs.

Daddy Clay: How do you have that conversation without sharing particulars of your own experience without talking about your own kids? And I worry that I don’t have their permission, and I think a lot of bloggers think well I cant ask my 2 year old if it its okay if I write about her potty training.

Daddy Brad: You don’t need permission.

Daddy Clay: I mean you know…

Daddy Brad: You feed her don’t you?

Daddy Clay: What happens when she is a teenager, and she comes to you in a huge rage “over a million people were with me in the bathroom, when I was learning to crap for the first time? And you talked about wiping my butt online.” I mean is that a legitimate grievance?

Daddy Brad: Oh no dude, you are going to embarrass her so much just by being your big ass goofy self anyway. I don’t think I’m giving out any information that is going to embarrass them that every other child hasn’t gone through.

Daddy Clay: Do you think it is different to share images than it is to write stories?

Daddy Brad: Somewhat - I think you should be a little careful with the kind of images you share, but I think sharing photos that are fairly generics is okay.

Daddy Clay: It’s like pervs right? So it boils down to - are you worried about pervs looking at pictures of your kids online?

Daddy Brad: Yeah a little bit that’s a touchy one. But that’s why I say - I kind of like to figure out where I’m doing this.

Daddy Clay: But you run into pervs at the playground, you can’t live like “hold up I’m not going to tell anybody anything about my life” - you miss the opportunity to participate in the community - to have a conversation with the people that are online all over the world about parenting, to talk about your kids to share your kid.

I mean you miss out on that if you say, “ok I’m so afraid of these pervs out there, and I’m not going to put any pictures. I’m not going to write about their experience” you know and for me, it is like letting the pervs win. “Okay perv, you scared me because you know your pervy little self, is out there looking at pictures on the web - therefore I cant participate in the community”. I think it is an outrage! I will not be intimidated by you pervs into not sharing my experience.

Daddy Brad: I agree with you but just be cognoscente about the type of pictures you’re putting up there, and the story you tell - you know, there is some pictures that are appropriate for the family photo album, and then there is some pictures that are appropriate for the Webbers.

Daddy Clay: But we also are - I mean obviously we are in favor of this because we have created a community at dadlabs.com. You can share videos, you can share pictures, you can share stories, you can create blogs, participate in discussions - share as much as you want to or as little as you want to. So obviously we believe there is value in that - we are going to do our very best to make sure, and I’m on there everyday all the time.

If it seems like there’s activity that is suspicious - we are going to ban that person and we are going to make sure it is a safe place to have a conversation. So we encourage you to come on at dadlabs.com go to the community, create a profile start a conversation, share photographs, look at other people’s photographs and comment on them. You know, that is the whole reason behind Dad Labs - we want to have this conversation, so I don’t think we can be too afraid of it.

Daddy Brad: Join the crib - join the Dad Labs crib.

Daddy Clay: So come on join in, create a profile. I tell you what, we are going to give away some prizes, we’ve got these great kits that come from Baby Banz and these Babies you get a great pair of these cute little sunglasses with a strap - to keep the kid from taking these sunglasses off. There is a hat and some sunscreen in there - we are going to give these to kits to folks that join in the conversation. I’m going to start a forum thread there, all about what you feel comfortable sharing online and join that conversation those people will be registered for some of these great prizes.

Daddy Brad: Absolutely

Daddy Clay: All right I think that is it for us this week in the lounge.