you can use your hotmail acc too... it is not necesary to use Gmail... AOL is oso accepted...
I think you are trying to tell us you have created a Gmail account and you want to create a blog with it well you go to (www.blogger.com) sign in and create a blog!
No, gmail is a mail server that will help you to send or receive mail etc. blogspot is a service for blogger of Google. you can try it.
It is not always free to start a blog. It depends on what type of blog you want to start and whether or not you want to make money with the blog.
Gmail can be set as a start up page in browser. You can edit your browser settings to set Gmail as homepage. This allows to see Gmail homepage when you click on browser.
One can start a blog for free on Wordpress.com.
Using blogger is not a big problem. First of all you have to sign up. If you use Gmail you don't even need to create a new account, you can just use your gmail account. After that you need to choose a name and a template for it. The subject of your blog should determine the name of it. Name of blog should be related to subject of blog. After that you have to select the design template. When this all created you are ready to post content in your blog. Then publish that posts nd your blog is ready.
children have to be age 8 ,9,10 and above to start a blog
One can start an amateur blog, by going to the Blogger site and creating your own blog. Create your blog name, your Blogger profile, and create your first post.
Go to Blogger, sign in with your Google or Gmail account and follow the steps one by one. That's it.
They are several sources for information on how to start a blog, some of them are Wikihow, Siteground, webnode and simplesite are a few options that you can consider.
You can chat on Gmail using the Hangouts. It is the official Instant Messaging app of Gmail. You can start chatting on that using iPod touch too.