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Communication FUNdamentals
Nov. 15, 2008
Latest Trend in Pre-Teen Birthday Parties: Texting!
Your 12 year old daughter is invited to a friend's birthday party. Pin the Tail on the Donkey is no longer en vogue, but you'll never guess what is!
The other day my sister related to me that the newest trend in pre-teen birthday parties is texting. About 12-15 girls sitting around at the "party", with cell phones in hand, texting each other about whether or not a boy was cute and if they could tell that he liked them. Not one of them actually talked to another. They were even texting the boys in question who were not in attendance.
I'm sure there were cake and presents, but what there wasn't was any face to face conversation! If you think conversation is a lost art, you ain't heard nothin' yet!
Why come? Why waste gas driving to a central location if you aren't even going to LOOK at each other?
According to my niece, the girls sat around, thumbs tapping madly, ignoring their host and any unfortunate wretch whose parents didn't see fit to equip their sixth grader with the Latest Teen Tool.
No wonder kids can't communicate well anymore; they don't even try!
During class, they text each other in broken and mispelled English about important subjects like how boring history is and if Jason really loves Brittany. Not 20 seconds after school lets out, they are on the cell phone already discussing where they are gonna like get together ya' know that afternoon so they can like seriously text uninterrupted by siblings and parents who may want to...
GASP!...TALK TO THEM!
From JoJo's Purple Crayon
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