Teens and Texting
Text messaging is not the devil that many parents think it might be. Especially since many mobile carriers lately offer plans that include unlimited texting, it is no longer the financial drain it used to be.
Here are some of the reasons to embrace text messaging:
A report on a study in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology confirms that text speak does not hurt kids language skills. "Text speak (or, rather, TXT SP3EAK) not only doesn't harm literacy in children, researchers have found, but its use is actually positively correlated with their language and reading skills."
In the book Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, the author David Crystal argues that not only does texting not hinder language skills, it actually helps them.
The New York Post article Your mama's so tech-savvy, she loves to text message... with her mom by Lauren Johnston interviewed many moms of tweens, teens and twenty-somethings. She found that once these moms began texting they greatly increased their communication with their kids. (I was one of the moms interviewed).
If you have kids that text and you haven't tried it yet, have them show you how to do it. They will enjoy teaching you something new. It is much easier if you have one of the newer smart phones with a keyboard. You won't regret it.
For more info: Text-messaging with your Teens
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