... Whether they are connecting with family, need a break or are searching for advice ... parents see blogs (short for Web logs) as a way to reach out to a broader community. How many parents? In 2005, Technorati, a San Francisco company that tracks blogs, counted about 8,500 people writing blogs about their children. Today, that number is up to 28,000, and that's just those written in English, according to Technorati's vice president of marketing Derek Gordon. ...

... Blogs also come at a time when parents have more choices of how they raise their kids than a couple of generations ago, says Julie Moos, founder and editor of DotMoms (www.dot-moms.com), a Web site featuring essays written by mothers. ...

... "It does say something about the degree to which we are deliberately parenting in this generation," says Moos, who worked for Raleigh's WRAL-TV until four years ago when she took a job at the Poynter Institute, a journalism education foundation in St. Petersburg, Fla.