Connected Teen T-Shirts

"Leave your phone in airplane mode again?"

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

Text Culture

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

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

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

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

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

Technological Dependence.

"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!"

Social Networking.

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."

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

Child hooking into a television

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

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

"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!"

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

"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.'

ALMOST SLEEPING BEAUTY

"Wh@_I_Did_During_My_Whole_Summer_Vacation."

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

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

"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."

"Books are tricky. You can't text with a text book and you can't call with a phone book!"