I looked into the future last week when my friend's 12-year-old son came round to play computer games with our lad. Before he went home I asked him to tell his mum some important information about a school event happening the following week. "Can you send me an email in case I forget," he replied. The dinosaur in me rose up indignantly. "But you're only 12."
I can't help it; I live in the past and sometimes need reminding that life for children and young people is not as it was when I was a nipper.
I shouldn't have been surprised. After all, text messaging is the biggest form of communication among children to the extent that it's now used as an anonymous form of bullying.
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