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).