{"id":1862,"date":"2024-03-22T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecontentconsultancy.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:52:37","slug":"creating-content-with-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecontentconsultancy.com\/creating-content-with-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating content with your kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If you have children at home with you, especially during the school holidays, you may feel you have hardly any time to create content, whether it is a blog post or just a few social media posts. Therefore, have you considered getting them involved with helping you to create content? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have teenagers in the house then you have a ‘goldmine’ of natural content creators and social media pros. If you have younger children, then you have expert video advisers! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
*** Before I go any further, please remember the safety of your children and the use of the internet should always be paramount, and only include them in what you feel comfortable and is appropriate to do so ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are five ideas<\/strong> to help your content creation to be engaging and exciting by getting your kids involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eeeek! This may be a dangerous question or may be met with simply a ‘grunt’…but try having a chat with your older children about their use of social media. A teenager walks in to a room and sees Instagram and TikTok opportunities every where. I still find it so difficult if I see something funny or enchanting to whip out my phone and stick it on Instagram, and I never don’t post more than once a day. I know I should and could but something holds me back. Many teenagers don’t have this barrier or fear – they have been brought up with social media and learned many of its tricks and ways to get both likes, engagement and comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Talk to them about your business and what visual opportunities they can see that may be you can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask them about hashtags too. I worked with someone in his twenties, recently, and his hashtags were so inventive and on message – they really helped the reach of our content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was told by a web designer that you should imagine your website is viewed by someone who is very drunk. They’ll scroll around, they won’t take much in at first glance and they’ll probably forget what they read! When you think about it like that…how clear and easy is it to navigate your website? Now, you could ask a friend to take to the gin for a few hours (!) and then check through your website and tell you what they noticed…or perhaps not… <\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, how about asking your children to look at your website? The average reading age level for a broadsheet newspaper is around 12, and 9 for a tabloid. With this in mind, if your child is 9 or above then they should be able to understand your copy. Can they? Ask them if they find anything confusing or if they would want to know more. <\/p>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAsk your teenager how they view the world <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Get your children to check your website<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n