The Days of Computers and Teens

I am so lucky I was raising my kids when I did.
The computers were just starting to get small
enough for desk. And pretty new to all, and the
kids interest was peaked. And parents were truly,
mostly in the dark. I know I tried, by reading the books
the kids brought home, but I got left in the dirt by week
two. And they were making their own programs with
blocks and symbols and stuff I never saw before.

Nothing like it is now. Where you open your laptop,
desk top, or even blackberry and there the programs
are. The new “apps” that I can’t even start to begin
to know what they are.

Now parents content with Ipods, Ipads, Droids, and all
the rest of the electronics available now. And like anything
else, with great things that these bring, there is heartaches and
scary things for parents to worry about. While there is great
knowledge out there at their finger tips, so is the evils of it.
The predators, the viruses, the spams, and the crooks who
have kept up with all of this electronic stuff…

Even the elderly are affected by it. As they marvel at the pictures
of great grandchildren they get to see in an instant, only to have
some low life brings them down with viruses or tricks to get their money.
Having them lose out on their money one way or another. As most
can’t afford another $300 and up for a new machine, say nothing about
their bank accounts drain because they believe what they read.

And with teens, there is so many ways to destroy their lives. If
the crooks don’t get them, and then there are the bullies. If it isn’t their
class mates it is the parents of their classmates. And a mere slip
of a picture posted is out there in cyberspace to embarrass them
for the rest of their lives. Once information is let loose out there, it
is rare that it can be erased.

Even we as adults should remember that, especially when we are running
with places like Facebook.