By Bryan Person

Looking for an easy way to capture and chronicle moments in your children’s lives, even when, like me, you don’t have the discipline to either round up those stories regularly on a blog or jot down thoughts in a baby book?

Consider creating a parent-controlled Twitter feed for each of your kids, as I’ve done for Amani (2) and Viola (14). I keep my two feeds private and share updates only with a handful of close family members on Twitter, but the system plays right into my daily workflow (i.e., lots of time on Twitter).

I routinely tweet from my iPhone, using a nifty app called Tweetie that enables posting to multiple accounts. For my kids, I can publish, say, the latest addition to my two-year-old son’s growing vocabulary in one update, and then painlessly switch accounts and tweet a note on my newest daughter’s dance routine (I can hear her working on some new moves just outside my office door)

Export private tweets to Google Reader via FreeMyFeed

And imagining the day in 2011 when I’ll want to know exactly when Amani said the word “slippery” for the very first time (it was yesterday, for the record), I’m also also storing and archiving every tweet in Google Reader, which features powerful search functionality.

I needed a workaround when I first added the feeds, though, because Google Reader doesn’t read private RSS feeds directly. Enter FreeMyFeed, a free service that “free[s] your feed from authentication or invalid SSL certificates for use in the feed reader of your choice.”

I encourage you to copy the idea, and would love to hear from you if you do!

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