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Is Texting Taking Over Your Teen?
Your Comments:When I was a teen I talked for hours on the family's only phone. Now the teens all have their own phones and this is how they communicate. I don't know why they can't just call someone but that's neither here nor there. Fact is, texting is here to stay so we had all better just deal with it. My 15 y.o. son can text, eat a meal and converse with us all the the same time. Truthfully, I don't even notice anymore. With him texting between 3000 and 4000 times a month, my $10 unlimited plan is the best money I've ever spent.
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Facebook for Parents
Your Comments:I have a page and am "friends" with my 15 y.o. son. I like reading all his friends' comments, looking at their photos, etc. It's fun and I feel like I am reliving my teen years through them. I don't get involved at all, I simply observe. I find the concept of looking up people from my past kind of interesting as well. I do feel it would be awkward to ask them to be my "friend" out of the blue, some of them I haven't seen in over 30 years. I just find the whole thing king of needless and self-serving. What would be the point? But other than that, Facebook is a fun way to spend a little time on the internet.
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Should You Read Your Kids’ Texts?
Your Comments:My 15 y.o. son has on and off bouts of depression for 5 years. I know he has contemplated suicide a few times. One of the ways I can get him the help he needs is to know what he's saying to his friends. Since they won't come right out and tell me if I ask them, I have resorted to reading his text messages when I see that he's going thru a very down period. I have in fact discovered some disturbing things within his texts and was able to diffuse the situation without him knowing that I read his thoughts. It's called good parenting, looking out for the most important person in the world to me. Some of the kids reading this simply won't understand until they, too become parents.
