Generation Internet

Our children will grow up with no memory of record players, radial dial telephones, or life without a computer. This strikes fear into the hearts of some parents who stand by in awe as their children race past them on the technological super highway. This fear often gets translated into a need to control everything about the child’s internet or computer experience, but this need is misguided and hasty.

Before you go out and spend countless dollars and hours on spyware and blocking software for computers and phones consider the alternative … have a little fun along side your child. Learn a few things. Get a My Space account. Join a blog network. Add texting to your own cell phone account and use it. Make your world more closely resemble your child’s world. This is no time to stand on the expression, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Parents who staunchly refuse to embrace the technology of our time will be living with a child who is living in a parallel universe, a virtual world into which the parent may never enter.

This website is an open forum to help parents learn how to be conversant with their Generation I children. It is an open conversation that invites submissions and questions. We have to let go of the idea that we can ever, EVER, “beat em”. We simply must learn how to “join em.”