Yeah I don't like the Tavi one either, it just doesn't seem like a 13 year olds work and I think she should spend her time like a normal 13 year old, there splenty of time for blogging etc. when older.
It's fine if people don't like her blog, I can't really say I'm a fan myself, however, I don't really like the frequent, "...a 12 [or finally, 13, now] year old couldn't have written that!" comments people have in regards to her writing style and ability.
There
always are exceptions, and I'm sure we've all seen child prodigies, or kids with unique gifts, and I wouldn't doubt Tavi's ability or style of writing, just because she's young. I mean, at her age, I had already picked up a national writing award, and had my work published, and put in the Library of Congress... I truly don't mean to boast when I say that, I simply trying to say that it's more than possible for someone young to have a skill in something that will make them seem beyond their years.
When I was 12, people who only knew me through my writing always thought I was like 30 or something!
Plus, from Tavi's sense of style, we can see that she's probably not your average 13 year old, and so, it seems a bit pointless to compare her to "normal" thirteen-year-olds (and as far as I know, it
is normal for a thirteen year old to have a blog or spend time on the internet, they all seem to be doing it, really...at least the thirteen-year-olds I know are).
I'm not criticising Tavi, but rather her parents for encouraging her to blog in such a format.
I think the New York Times or some other interview with Tavi and her parents, a while back, revealed that her parents didn't even know about her blog until the press starting contacting Tavi, so, it's not like her parents said, "Honey, why don't you go start your own blog or something?"
As far as nasty comments, she seems to have more than enough positive ones to soothe the bite of any nasty comments. Not to sound cruel, but I hope she's being exposed to some criticism, because with all the praise she receives, I'd be a bit worried about her staying grounded. And I know so many kids who think they're
all that, and better than everyone else, because people like their parents have always shielded them from any criticism. And then they grow up, and enter the real world, and can't handle the dog-eat-dog-ness of it all, because they were never exposed to any nastiness growing up.
Edit: Oops, sorry, didn't mean for this post to end up so long.
Was just a subject I had much to say about.
