Texting is a great tool for communicating with our kids. And let's face it, it's a mainstay of our kid's lives these days. We use texting to keep us all apprised of any changes to the day's schedule, a request to stop at the grocery store for milk, a reminder of chores and the occasional joke of the day.
Like any technology, determining the boundaries for its use within your family can be fraught with indecision, conflicting viewpoints and, if your family is anything like mine, vigorous lobbying by the kids to keep those boundaries nearly non-existent. Texting, for all it's benefits, presents a myriad of issues that parents, schools, and kids are trying navigate - texting in class, text shorthand, sexting, mobile meanness and the growing dangers of texting while driving.
I'm participating, as a "“LG TextEd Ambassador”, in a discussion on the topic RBTL: Moms discuss teens and texting on BlogHer. Pop on over to add your voice, because the more parental insight, the better we'll all be for it.
There's a great group of ladies over there right now talking about "mobile meanness", how texting is being used to bully and harrass.
the deets: This is a compensated post, via BlogHer and LG. Since I have kids, whose fingers are compelled to text, it's a relevant topic I feel strongly about.
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