Is it good or bad?  It could be both.  

 It could be good and effective mostly when you need to reach your kids with an important message.  The mobile phone was given to them so that they can be in touch with their parents and call them if there is an emergency. 

It could be bad if they exchange text with a friend who has many friends.  In other words they have one friend who breaks the rules by sending their conversation to a group of other friends who are wild and they are not the type of people that you would want your kids to hang out with.  I will call this dangerous. 

Well, do you remember when you were young.  Your parents told you whom you should hang out with and whom to stay away from.  They were able to oversee who your friends are.  With this new technology, parents have no control over what their kids are doing and whom they are talking too. 

Grammar – Can your kids spell out words?  We are loosing a whole generation who will not be able to communicate and spell correctly.  This is a big problem. 

Texting keeps our kids from sleeping at night.  May I suggest that you pay a visit to your kids’ bedroom around 11:00 pm – midnight.  You will probably see a little light coming under the cover.  If you ask, what are you doing, the answer will be “I am checking the time”  Most of the time they are texting instead of sleeping. Testing gives them attitude and helps them to have attitude. 

How can we protect our kids from this?  We will continue later…..