Tapping into Parents’ Enthusiasm for their Kids
Shortly after I formed the Expand the Hive community, I had the idea of starting a community focused on parents wanting to help their kids understand crypto while also showcasing their kids’ creative expressions.
My rationale for this was twofold:
- As a father of 6 kids, I know that parents will go to great lengths to teach and instruct their kids and to better prepare them for the future; and that parents love to ‘brag’ about their kids.
- Kids love to create and love to share their creations with anyone and everyone.
So, I figured what better way to expand the Hive ecosystem than by encouraging parents to come on board for the express purpose of expanding their kids’ horizons while simultaneously encouraging their creativity.
My other initial thought was to create the community as a ‘tribe’ with its own crypto token, with the rewards structured such that every kid’s post would likely receive hundreds, if not thousands, of crypto tokens. Although I still plan to eventually upgrade this community to ‘tribe’ status with a smart media token of its own, for just that purpose, read on for an alternative solution that is already available …
Boost Enthusiasm & Rewards with the Tag #proofofbrain
I strongly recommend every post to this community be tagged with the #proofofbrain tag (just type in “proofofbrain” as one of the tags when you create each post). That will allow your kid’s post to ALSO receive $POB tokens from the site proofofbrain.io, which is managed by @proofofbrainio. In other words, the post will receive the normal $HIVE tokens as rewards, but will also receive $POB (proof of brain) tokens.
The ‘Proof of Brain’ tribe and website is a newly-launched general-content site that combines the original “proof of brain” vision of steem #Hive with Satoshi Nakamoto’s visionary $BTC (bitcoin) supply curve. However, instead of the currency inflation going to miners (as it does with $BTC), the $POB inflation goes exclusively to content creators and content curators.
I strongly support the efforts of @proofofbrainio and thus gladly promote the $POB token and the proofofbrain.io landing page.
Differences between this New My Creative Kidz Community and the Already-Existing Kidz Community
Shortly after I had my idea to create this community for parents to post their kid’s creative content, I found another community, called Kidz, that has been active since January 2020. Initially, I thought, “Oh, my idea has already being implemented.” However, as I delved deeper into the founding and functioning of the Kidz community, I noticed it is primarily aimed at kids themselves as the ones who post content and manage their accounts (which is great).
This My Creative Kidz Community, on the other hand, is focused on the parents. As such, I expect to see a greater proportion of the posts to this community (My Creative Kidz) highlighting creative content from younger kids, with the Kidz Community receiving posts from older and/or more mature kids.
My Creative Kidz Community -- Brief Description
This community is primarily directed toward parents who want to:
- encourage their kids to learn about crypto communities, crypto assets, & blockchain technologies, while
- showing off their kids’ creative abilities and
- facilitate their kids earning crypto rewards that can both
- encourage them to continue being creative and
- perhaps even help fund their future education.
My Creative Kidz Community -- Overview of the Rules
Rules are detailed below. The essence of the rules are:
- Accounts must be kid-owned, but not necessarily kid-controlled.
- Parents should not post non-kid stuff from the kid-account (here or elsewhere). Accounts that violate this rule are subject to being muted from this community.
- Kid-related content from each kid-account can, of course, be posted elsewhere on Hive (i.e. beyond this community).
- The point of this restriction is that the crypto in the kid-account wallet represents the rewards earned by the kid(s) rather than by the parents.
- This allows upvoters of kids’ creative posts to see the impact their votes are having over time.
- This can serve as an encourager to get new kids to sign up (seeing other kids’ cumulative rewards).
- No identifiable information will be allowed on this community, other than first names and calendar ages. (You can post identifiable info from the kid-account elsewhere on Hive, but not here.)
My Creative Kidz Community -- Official Rules
- Posts must be from a kid’s account only (no parent accounts; multiple-kid accounts are okay).
- Posts must clearly state the ‘calendar age’ of the kid (calendar age = current year minus birth year).
- Exclude or obscure faces and any other personally-identifiable information, other than first names and calendar ages.
- Only 1 post per project (unless it is an iterative project, with changes between each iteration described in each post).
- Parents can assist with the kid’s creative work (please acknowledge such in the post).
- Parents can photograph the kid’s creative work (please acknowledge such in the post).
This is a potential community idea I could get behind. (Cheers @acidyo for sharing.)
We unschool and I’ve posted a bunch of times about activities with my kids.
I’m quite protective though, and like you say I disguise their identities like names and cover their faces with smilies.
I’ve recently launched a public YouTube channel with my eldest (7) where he does cool stuff - which is the most public thing we’ve ever done with the kids. He doesn’t say his name and there no connection to anything else... but I’m still unsure about sharing on here and other places atm. Not sure why really.
Maybe this community would help encourage us to say hello.
Anyway, I like the idea.
I’d be up for setting up another account for him and make sure all the rewards benefit only him for the future.
you have got WAY too much time on your hands LOL
I have been seeing a lot more 'community' let's build stuff engagement lately , and it's awesome.
It's almost like a new 'abundance' economy is happening.
I am approaching my Expand the Hive initiatives as a would-be consumer.
I have 6 kids. I am always looking for ways to encourage them to take initiative. If someone showed me a platform where I could teach my kids about crypto while also encouraging them to express their creativity, I would sign up.
Granted, I am already extremely interested in all-things crypto, so that biases me toward this alternative.
However, I have been pro-crypto for a number of years and deeply interested for almost 3 years, but didn't know anything about Hive until a few months ago. And none of my students had ever heard of Hive until I presented it to them last month.
All you can do is sign them up in Hive and let them find their own place in the network.
They can easily express them selfs or their creativity by blogging on Hive for whatever they like.
When I invite my friends I’m telling them to blog about what they love.
For example some of my friends:
@alicewonderyoga - yoga teacher
@wizdombg - movement teacher.
@harmony.art - art soul
@vaketo - shares his daily activity
@mmanolev33 - shares beautiful daily photos
@ivangeevo - shares music creativity and something everyday with us ;)
Myself I share my daily activity and a few photos from my days basically.
And the best of all is that hive gives us the opportunity to earn a piece of such a great technology...
Don’t forget hive is focused on blogging, vogs and freedom of speech mostly by @theycallmedan & @threespeak platform.
Because at those hard times we will need protection and place where we can express our opinions about everything happening around us.
And @theycallmedan is doing a very important work by working on a decentralized video sharing and protecting it from the outside world.
And I can keep on going ;)
Namaste 🙏
Absolutely! Namaste 🙏
Thanks for the feedback.
With this community, my goal is to bring in parents with kids who are too young to do any of those things themselves.
However, once the kids see it in action, their engagement and ability to do it themselves will accelerate.
Absolutely ;)
Right place to start from...
I tried to explain it to the young generation 13-20 age around me...
But they are still far away from understanding the technology.
Namaste :)))
Sounds like you got your hands full ;)
I raised 4 boys - i can only imagine 2 more.
What grade/class do you teach ?
!ENGAGE 10 (not sure if this will work - still learning)
I teach entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University.
I have created a 'community' (that @aggroed helped me transform into a 'tribe') for my students. I have been posting content to the community for the past few weeks. Starting this week (hopefully), students will start posting their Discussion Forum interactions on the tribe website (which is gradnium.com).
Students will earn GRAD tokens by voting on each other's Discussion Forum posts.
Thats aweseome -
Especially being able to introduce the growing $hive platform to an entire class of entrepreneurs ;)
You need to have 1000 ENGAGE, in order to use this service.