It wasn’t only the computers, but with all electronics. I suppose in some ways I was fortunate so I’m not quite as out of the loop as newer technology along now. My better half however didn’t. It makes it interesting around here, anyways. Which by the way, we did meet online, 11 years ago. I have met some incredible people in ancient chat rooms that I am sure still exist but no longer use. Long before the days of myspace and facebooks and blogs.

With the internet always being a presence in my home growing up, and my parents not minding my siblings and I using at our will, or monitoring what we do, and how it has grown since then, we do the opposite with our kids now. They have things they do online, but we keep them grounded in the earth around us, instead of the internet like so many of their friends are. Until they can learn to harness the internet for it’s value, and not it’s uselessness, it’ll stay this way. And they are learning, but they are just kids after all.