It's starting already

You know how you are more techno savvy than your parents? Is their VCR flashing 12:00? Are you trying to teach them to Skype so you can webcam with them? Did you buy them a digital photo frame so they can see rolling pictures of their darling grandkids? Are you helping to buy them a simple cell phone (with big numbers and good sound) without all the multimedia bells and whistles that the younger generation wants?

Even though I'm now a parent, SURELY I have not been surpassed by my kids yet, or have I?

So far I have the one up on the kids as far as computers and cell phones. And let's hope it stays like that for a while. But I have been caught with my kids (well, just newly 6 year old Tobey) telling me the way things really are.

This morning I went around opening more windows than usual because it was a cooler summer day here in New England. I went to open the living room windows which I don't normally do and 10 seconds after I left Tobey goes, "Mommy, those windows are double pane." Huh? "Those windows have another window so there's no air coming in." I look back, lo and behold, there is a storm window in front, not a screen and there IS no air coming in! Leave it to a handy daddy to have a handy son that knows about stuff like this.

"Can I pull down the screen panel and push up the window panel?"
"No," Tobey says, "it doesn't work like that."
"How do you know all this?"
"I just looked."

Gee, thanks.

Then also today, Tobey spent many an HOUR on his new snap circuits set. He got stuck at some point and asked me for help. Eek, I thought, I didn't really like 6.002, the circuits class at MIT. I look at the diagram and meanwhile Tobey is babbling something about resistors, photo resistors, amplifiers and switches. Thank goodness I could find the gap in his circuit that helped fix his problem.

But the day is coming. And it's coming too soon. The day when Tobey will look at me still texting pressing 2 twice to spell out a "B" and he'll tell me a quicker way to text.

But hey, at least I text. But maybe by the time he's old enough, texting will be a thing of the past.