Okay....so I learned this weekend that blackberry + saltwater = disaster. I have prided myself in getting more organized in my life. I have learned to keep everything...yes everything....in my phone/pda/smart device? I am soooooo lost!!! I missed an important meeting today because the time I had written down wasn't the final time we had agreed upon...that was in my blackberry. I can't believe the number of times I've reached for my phone....and then remembered oh yeah...it is DEAD! Hell....I even had trouble waking up yesterday morning since I use it as my alarm clock too. I can hear you all laughing and shaking your head about just how dependent I am on a 2 x 4 rectangle.
Just losing the use of my phone would have been bad enough but, couple that with the fact that my network server wouldn't allow me to check email for the better part of the day and my body is screaming that I've been technology and information deprived. Can you really think back to a time before we had instant access to things? Doesn't it scare you a little that we are raising kids that don't know what it is like not to have those things at their fingertips? That in and of itself raises a new question I guess - when is too early for kids to have cell phones? I used to say that I would never get them for mine until they were at least teenagers. I knew kids in kindergarten that had them and there was no way that would be my child. Now, I admit, I did give in and change my mind on the cell phone thing. It wasn't so they had a way to call friends, etc. It was so I had a way to constantly be in touch with them and believe me - they ALL fear the wrath of mom if they don't immediately answer a call or text from me. That is grounds for an immediate and unrelinting grounding for some time to come. With the phones also came a set of rules, they can't be behind closed doors talking to the few friends I allow them to be on the phone with. They can't give out their number to people without asking me first. They have a limited number of people (primarily family) that they are allowed to talk with or text with. The same thing goes with computer access. The girls (12 and almost 14) just now got their own email addresses but, those have rules too. Pretty much the same as the phone. I have passwords to both accounts as well. Just like I do with the websites they belong to and I will continue to monitor their activity. They don't have free reign to go to places like utube....even though their friends tell them they should. My kids get tired of hearing ...well...I'm not Johnny's mom...and if I were he wouldn't be allowed to do that either. Too many parents don't know what their kids are doing and that is just a scary thought for me. There are too many predators out there in this world...I know more than a few. I will do whatever it takes to protect my children as much as I can.....ahhh yes....isn't technology grand.
dialing in....
xoxo
Pandora
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Ok, here is something to add to the mix. We just had prom this weekend and who knew it was a community event. We literally had non-parents show up just to watch the kids walk in in their "fancy clothes." If fact the kids were made to parade by the cafeteria windows so the parent and others could sit in the cool while the kids walked by. Geeze! Now here is the kicker, these are the same parents who pay for cabins on the river for their 14-22 year olds to gather at before and after the prom. Normally there is NO adult supervision, unless you count the 20-22 year boys who show up to "party." The kids come home sometime late Sunday night or Monday morning. After, that I can believe anything of people including swine flu parties, kindergardners with unlimited texting, and six year olds with my space pages. It is no wonder we have 13 year olds with children of their own.
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