Texts My Kids Sent Me

So we got our kids ITouches for Christmas last year and they LOVE them! The only problem is…they have no texting etiquette! So now, I’m CONSTANTLY getting texts and pictures and short videos and just about anything they can throw at me which is fine…except when I’m working and my phone is blowing up with blurry dog pictures and texts like this…

And then there’s Christopher, who gets a little more detailed in his texting but still some of it gets lost in the translation and it drives me a little bit crazy at times…

So there ya have it…the start of communication between myself and my kids. I imagine that this will be the way I talk with them from here on out because Ava has even started texting me when she’s in the living room and I’m in the kitchen! And we ALL know where this heads. Gotta be on your toes at ALL times! LOL

Konversations With Kids: Christopher’s First Texting Lesson

So for Christmas my kids wanted socks, clothes, makeup and ITouches. If you think something called an ITouch is obscene, it’s not. Essentially it’s an IPhone without the phone part. But other than making phone calls, they do everything an IPhone does. And they aren’t cheap. But Stephanie convinced me that the kids would really, REALLY like one for Christmas so…Santa made the delivery. And so far, it’s been kind of fun having them. The kids text me and send me pictures and today Christopher sent me a video and so it has been kind of nice to see what goes on with them while I’m on the road.

So today Christopher was watching the UC Bearcats bowl game vs Vanderbilt and was giving me a play-by-play when I decided to give him a little advice on his grammar. The following are our texts…

And I didn’t hear anything from him beyond that point…

Hey…just because we’re texting doesn’t make it okay to use incorrect language. Gotta set a precedence at some point…might as well be now! LOL (which means “Laughing Out Loud”…if you didn’t know. That’s “texting speak”…)!