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You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that's unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.