Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Do your kids text?
My 12 year old has a friend who loves to text but doesn’t get that it exists on a phone that
1. has an off switch
2. belongs to a person who may be busy when the text comes in an unable to return the text right away.
Preparing for a new school year is always challenging, and always catches even the most organized of parents off guard. In the blink of an eye, summer is over and we’re in school mode again – just like that!
My daughter really wants an iTouch. She’s 12…a tween. We heard nothing about this until recently when a friend was over who happened to have been given one for a holiday gift. It turns out that many of her friends have them now so she feels like iPods are suddenly passe.
Instead of asking us for one or concocting a plan to put it on her next birthday list, she came up with the idea to earn enough money for it by doing chores around the house.
