Navigating Kids Through the Text Generation

By Heather Sells

Today's media specialists are not just the librarian-turned-Internet-surfer at your child's school. It's parents.

The job requirement? Monitor and mentor your child through often heavy use of cell phone, Internet, and other technological gadgetry.

Cell phones. They're just the tip of the new media iceberg you may fear is headed your way. One Harris poll says more than half of all teens say their cell phone is key to their social life. And, they're good. Forty-two percent say they could text blind-folded!

"The technology moves so fast and advances so rapidly and kids are unfazed, they're unimpressed," Dr. Michael Osit, author of Generation Text, told CBN News. "They just adapt to that technology and the power of that and the parents are left in the dust."