The next generation of celebrity kids?

I read a lot of mommy blogs. It's hard not to, since there really seem to be only three major groups of blogs (at least that I can find):
1) Mommy blogs
2) Political/Military/Religion blogs
3) Random person blogs
4) I-hate-my-job blogs

Ok, so there are four major categories...please don't unleash the Spanish Inquisition. And there are definitely cross-category blogs, I'm not trying to make definitive classifications. This blog, for example, is most often a 3, but very often also a 4 (which is true regardless of whether or not I'm currently blogging about it) and also sometimes a 2 (on the political or religion ends - I tend to stay out of military blogging because I support our military and have nothing more to say on the subject.) It's never a 1 though, unless puppies count, which to most other people in the 1 category, they would not. I hear tell of a 5th category - the Infertility blog - and I've read a few, but honestly, I get depressed when I focus on them, so I try not to read many of them. And actually, now that I ponder further, there are way more categories....so just disregard the beginning, would you?

Anyway, back to mommy blogs. They comprise a lot of my reading material. I'm not sure why - but it's probably why I read gossip columns too. In some, bizarre little way, I want to be like these people (i.e. a mommy) so, while it's endlessly tormenting on one hand, it's also endlessly fascinating. Plus there's the whole, "Did you read the thing that so-and-so just posted? It was hillarious!" aspect of things. I need to be able to keep up with conversations and know the news!

Some of the mommy blogs I read teeter on the edge of celebrity. They're full force into blogebrity though. If I say Dooce, you all probably would respond Leta. (Maybe Jon, depending on whether or not you were channeling the "Mommy is to Child as ..." precursor to my thought process.) Or if I said Ellen, you would obligingly respond Anna. And so forth and so on. And these blogebrity mommies post pictures and stories of their children's lives and we can, in essence, watch these kiddos grow up. We hear about them getting potty trained, falling in love with Elmo, not sleeping, learning to sleep, teething, weaning...well you the idea. And it occurs to me that we know more about these kids than we know about any children other than our very own. (Especially if you don't have your own - it's like you get to be a parent without all the pesky little details of parenting like orthodontist bills.)

So I was wondering - are these blogebrity children the next generation of celebrity kids? Are we looking at the next Drew Barrymore or Paris Hilton in the making? Is the exposure of being the child of a mommy blogger the same (or bigger) than that of being the child of someone rich and/or famous? Will these kids eventually feel pressured to go into blogging after growing up in the bloglight? Or will they prefer to go into webdesign, choosing a behind-the-scenes career as a chance to finally be out of the public eye?