What today’s kids get
Gone are the days when Mom or Dad could send a kid outside for hours on end, telling them, “See you for dinner!”
Today’s kids are way too technologically advanced to even think about it.
Being connected, sometimes literally, to all sorts of ”devices” makes it hard for kids to get away from their parents. Well, for safety reasons, these days that’s probably not a bad idea.
However, once in a while, there’s the parent that needs a couple quiet hours who would appreciate some time away from their kids. As in my case tonight, husband and I sent the kids downstairs to play in the basement for a couple hours of R & R.
I would have loved to have a basement when I was growing up like my kids have! With its indoor playground features, and multiple spaces to curl up and read a book or do art projects, I couldn’t conceive they’d get bored down there.
Until I turned on my computer to work on lesson plans, when suddenly I noticed my daughter was “online” and apparently ready to come upstairs.
“Hi Mom, we’re hungry”, her text message said.
So, thanks to today’s technology, parents and kids are not quite as inaccessible to one another as they used to be. Remember life before answering machine and cell phones?
