Connected Teen Gifts

"Leave your phone in airplane mode again?"

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

Text Culture

'I told you to invite a friend over.'

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

I just hope my doctor is not on twitter too!

"I hate you! You don't understand me and you don't understand my software!"

'You can stick your filthy shell. I'm listening to the Arctic Monkeys.'

"My mom's restricting my phone. She says I don't have enough Selfie Control."

I wish you kids would get off your electronics and learn a practical skill. Work with your hands! What does he think we're doing?!! Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.

Technological Dependence.

'This program is geared towards the youth market. You give it up to five commands and it closes down in a huff!'

"I'll be glad when this is over and Sarah can be herself again."

Social Networking.

The whole family can't wrench a teen away from his computer.

nstead of looking at fish bowl, a kid watches the fish on TV as they are being video taped.

"Would you mind adjusting the vibrate on your phone? There's a seismologist on TV claiming there's been an earthquake in our neighborhood."

Child hooking into a television

"I'm asking you to write your name on the board. Surely you don't need your smart phone to help you spell your name!"

"I hacked into Santa's computer and added a few gifts. It pays to have computer skills."

"My homework is not done because our home modem is tool slow for downloading the answers."

"Really? After all these years of you begging me to let you come and howl at the moon, now that you're a teenager, it's not cool to be seen with your dad!"

"Never mind your technology, in my day we had to deliver our jokes by hand!"

"She was really disappointed when she found out she was going to an eye doctor and not an iDoctor."

'I think Benjamin like me. He linked my homepage to his homepage.'

"Wh@_I_Did_During_My_Whole_Summer_Vacation."

'I'm NOT trying to break in and change my grades. I'm only trying to change the school lunch menu.'

“Honestly class, where are your minds?!”

ALMOST SLEEPING BEAUTY

"I'm sure you may need your phone, portable charger, laptop, iPad, Xbox, and music player. But we're only going to the mailbox."

When it comes to texting, she's all thumbs.'

'Would you stop with the Twitter alerts already? I'm standing right behind you.'

"Spirit! Are you a chatbot?"

"No, I'm not doing my homework, but I am watching a YouTube video of someone doing theirs."

"I just read on the internet that I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet."