I have been nominated by two individuals for this award: Unwanted Life and Real Bad Mommy. Thank you to you both. Please check out their wonderful blogs!

About the Award

This award is given to bloggers by the bloggers. It helps fellow bloggers to get their work the recognition it deserves. It’s a really good way of helping each other out. It aims to help bloggers get their work recognized and promoted to other bloggers.

The Rules

• Thank the blogger who nominated you and add a link to their blog
• Write a blog post on your site displaying the award
• Describe why you started your blog
• Write two pieces of advice for the new bloggers
• Nominate and notify 11-15 other bloggers

Why I started blogging

I started blogging, because I have always loved writing. I’m also passionate about child development and helping other parents learn more about how to improve their own children’s development. I have taught a lot of child psychology/development classes, so I want to share more knowledge with others.

In addition, I know that when I was a first time mom I used a lot of blogs to help me learn more about aspects of parenting a baby. And I found those blogs to be super helpful! So, I guess, in a way, I hope that I am returning the favor!

Two Pieces of Advice for New Bloggers

1.Learn as much as you can from the beginning! I wish I knew more about search engine optimization and how to create good pinterest pins before I even got started. However, you can learn a lot about this from Pinterest itself. If you are interested in monetizing your blog as well, I would start learning as much as you can about it.

2.Build connections with other bloggers. Twitter is a great place to do this. You can participate in comment threads and help support other bloggers. This is how I developed relationships with others, and we begun to help each other build our businesses. I also got to guest post on several blogs, which helped build my domain authority!

My Nominees

1.Kaila from The Struggle Juggle

2.Jaya from Nin Chronicles

3.Femmenaturelle

4.Jamilyn from Sidekick Mama

5.Mom of the Moment

Enjoy these blogs too! They are wonderful! 🙂