Tech-savvy Teen Gifts

'...how are you ever going to text.'

'No, it doesn't connect to an X-box!'

'Okay. Now, try to parallel park while talking on your cell phone and changing songs on your ipod.'

'With so little free time, you have to learn to multi-task...'

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

"Anyone following me on Twitter already knows what I did this past summer."

'How's it going, Rachel?'

'For the last time- will you please remove the parental lock!'

"Dad, can I borrow your password tonight?"

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

"Why don't you go turn on your toys and watch them play."

Tw@tter (teenager transfixed by social networking site).

"I hate to be a bother, young man, but do you speak emoji?"

'Talk about punishment. Last night I wasn't allowed to use my laptop and phone while watching TV.'

"I took away her phone for a week. She's going through selfie withdrawal."

"Handwrite and mail grandma's thank you note instead of texting? I don't have this kind of time!"

"And my own cell phone would help me develop better communication skills."

"Where's the send button?"

"Spirit! Are you a chatbot?"

"We said 'no' but then he started a crowd-funding campaign and bought it himself."

'Have a nice date and remember, your mother and I don't want to see any fingerprints on your touch screen.'

'A few years ago that wouldn't have even sounded like a sentence.'

'Mom, I forgot my homework. It's in my room. Can you scan it, and sent it to my smartphone? I'll download it to my tablet computer, then print it up in class.'

"When I make eye contact for the first time, I want it to be with the right person."

'Stop texting each other! You're both standing right here!!!'

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

"Can we please go back to playing on our phones?"

"I don't know how old my parents are, but they remember when a hashtag was a pound sign."

'See you later, Steve - I have to catch up on my tweets.'

"I like to leave the kids to their own devices."

Welcome: 'Signal's going.'

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

"Remember when we used to come to the mall for more than just charging our phones?"

"Hey! That's not striping machines.com!"

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