Years ago, when I was in my late teens and early 20's I was the "go to" girl in my family for technology problems. If the time on your VCR was blinking then I was your girl.
As I got older, and specifically after I had kids, this knowledge disappeared from my head. I could no longer tolerate reading instructions and I could no longer apply simple logic to the tasks. Basically when my children came out of my body so did my know-how of anything electronic.
With two girls of my own now I am constantly amazed by what they figure out. And how they take technology for granted. But most of all I am irritated. Not by what they know, but by how they use it to annoy the crap out of me.
My youngest is 8 and she bought herself an iPod Touch with her birthday money, because I refused to buy her one with my money.
In addition to games and music, she also likes to FaceTime me from across the room and text me (using Text Free) at 11 pm when I think she has been sleeping for hours.
On Wednesday night I arrived home from work when everyone else was still at my oldest daughter's soccer practice. Jayden was not happy that she had no choice but to go with. Practice was at a different locale that evening due to an event at the school, and with her "Touch" in hand she managed to mooch someone's wifi and send me this:
Seriously? She had 20 minutes left. This text was followed by a few more and two FaceTime requests. All of which I ignored. I was home alone and all I planned to do was sit and enjoy avoiding technology not conversing with my poor, "dieing" child using technology. And that is what I did.
Thirty minutes later she walked through the door.
"Mooooommmmmmmmm! Didn't you get my teeehhhhhxxxxxtttttttt?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about. But since you're home can you help me with this computer problem I am having?"
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