If You Give A Kid A Laptop …..

If you give your kid a laptop, or any item with a touch screen, their eyes will glaze over and they may lose all human contact with their parents. Of course that could be a good thing considering all of the babble and B.S. we are forced to endure. 

You will be able to track where they’ve been, not by using Google Earth, which I adore, but by the candy wrappers strewn about. They will perch like birds on the sofa with laptops barely balancing on their bird legs while power cords strangle the entire room.  

You may or may not see them at dinner, which translates into, one peaceful, adult, kid-free dinner table. Don’t expect them to hear you when scream out, “Get your homework started, or, it’s getting close to bedtime!” What they hear instead will be the click, click of the mouse, and the hum of the hard drive.

If you give a kid a laptop, they will lose all track of time. They may visit a space website and discover that a black hole is formed when a super massive star dies, or through the birth of a galaxy. They may learn that if they were to get sucked into a black hole, they could never escape due to its strong gravity. I know what you’re thinking, I can wish!

So if you give a kid a laptop, you can expect most anything; wisdom, power outages, black hole nightmares, and last but not least, some time to yourself, which you rightly deserve!