Grandchildren

While Bill and I have a combined 24 grandchildren, my oldest natural grandchild is a nearly 15 year old granddaughter. She's now a Freshman in high school and growing up way too fast.

I have always enjoyed talking with her, from the time she was just cooing and having "pretend" conversations to the "discovery" conversations. But, just this past summer, I have noticed that our conversations have taken a turn. We're now talking about "serious" things.

She wasn't feeling well this week and I picked her up early from school. As we were heading home she began talking about a class in school. This year the school is trying a new "tech" curriculum. Each of the students are given a MacBook to use. They were told to look something up, only to find that the site was blocked by the school. She said she understood the concept of blocking things so that students wouldn't be tempted to go to sites during class time. But, they shouldn't then be told to go to the sites for the information they needed! She also agreed that since this was a new program, there were probably bugs to be worked out for future years. We then discussed students needing to take responsibility for their actions and not going to the sites unless told to access it.

And, then, like a typical teenager, she wanted to know what we were going to eat for lunch! Ah, you gotta love 'em!