A fun way to prepare your children for the future
The story behind www.marbellafamilyfun.com
Like most parents, we spend a lot of time thinking about our children’s education. Weare involved in their school work, we are active in their extra-curricular activities, and weexpose them to different languages, cultures… We do not know what their professionallife will be like, but we would like them to have all the tools necessary to make most of it. And we want to do it in a way that provides for a reasonable
balance betweenstudies, sport and fun…
One area which will surely be part of their life in the future is the use of computers andinternet. Already at the tender ages 9 and 11, our children do some of their homework on power point, constantly search for information on Google, revise for their exams withspecialized websites, play games on the computer and keep begging for their owncomputer…We always thought that
properly using internet
was important for their future, and that adeeper understanding of the mechanics and the basic tools behind a website would be anasset for them. We are not talking about software development or anything technical. Weare only regular internet users and do not know anything about html coding. We are justtalking about general concepts about domain selection, website design, traffic generation,relationship between traffic, promotion and monetization…For a while already, we thought it would be a great idea to
create a family project
thatwould involve the children, foster communication, keep them motivated while offeringlearning opportunities and still be
manageable in time and cost
. The children werealready attracted by the internet, so a family website seemed like a natural outcome. Buthow do you go about it when you are not a tech expert?After some research, we stumbled upon an internet platform called SBI! that seemed
comprehensive and very user-friendly. We spent a couple of days reviewing their websiteand offering. They promised a process that would guide you all the way from projectidentification to domain selection, site building, traffic generation and monetization.Frankly, we could not decide whether it was worth it just from reviewing their site, butthey offered a no-question-asked money-back guarantee that tipped us over to try it.Since that day, we have embarked in a fun and meaningful project as a family. Wesearched for and identified a topic that all of us could relate to and we ended up creating awebsite called
about the city we live in. We review all thefamily attractions, beaches, excursions, restaurants, etc. around our city. It gives us theopportunity to travel all over the coast as a family, and each of us writes his/her reviewindependently, offering different points of view to visitors and local residents.Since the beginning of the project,
the children are active participants
: choosing thedomain name, designing the home-page, writing reviews about the places we visit,
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Prepare Your Children for the Future
Story of a fun family project to promote better knowledge of internet, offer unlimited learning opportunities and foster enhanced communication.
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