Modern parenting includes lots of text communication. No, it's not just with the grown ones who don't live here anymore, it's not just when I'm at work . . . sometimes it's when we're in the same house but different rooms.
Some recent examples for this week's list:
1. Yes, she has a chromebook from school that she could work on in a different room but she clearly wanted to annoy to her older brother . . . and she knew that last line would cinch her case.
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| She wasn't wrong. |
2. When they were small, I can remember walking in the door and having children run up and tell me they were hungry while their father was in the same room saying, "I AM RIGHT HERE."
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| Some things never change. |
3. While the example above is one of pure laziness, the one that follows is of a completely appropriate time to text your parent from a different room in the house.
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| Poor guy . . . but you should know that a subsequent text was to me, while I was at work, asking about what medicine to take. His father was in the other room at the time. |
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5. But then he makes up for it with texts like this:
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