Signs You’re a 2.0 Family

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1. You chat online via Twitter, Facebook etc. with your partner while you’re in the same house. Even the same room.

2. When the baby starts to cry you hand her your Smart Phone instead of a pacifier.

3. When your kid has a question instead of saying, “I don’t know, ask your father,” you say, “I don’t know. Google it.”

4. Your idea of a romantic date night is the two of you starring lovingly at each other over your laptops at Starbucks.

5. You used your laptop keyboard to teach your pre-schooler the ABCs. Or the QWERTYs as he calls it.

6. You learned how to text just so you could communicate with your teenager.

7. The number of computers in your home is equal to or greater than the number of people residing there.

8. When your kid asks to see his baby pictures you pull out the flash drive instead of the photo album.

9. Your family would starve if it weren’t for sites like Alice, Cozi and AllRecipes.

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9 thoughts on “Signs You’re a 2.0 Family”

  2. we google EVERYTHING. i think it’s become a crutch now. and i am totally guilty of texting my hubs when dinner is ready. in my defense though, we live on forty acres and sometimes he disappears 😉

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  7. I love it. It’s so very true. R and I communicate more by IM some days when he’s home. It just seems to work better. Or send each other links, etc.

    Also, we Google everything as well. Even to the point of Googling things like “Seahorses” and looking at the pictures of seahorses. This is my daughter’s favorite thing to do, and seems to help when she gets into that overly cranky mood.

    One that you didn’t add…instead of playing with old telephones or radios, kids play with out-of-date or out-of-order computers. Daughter types stories and messages on my old laptop. Learning her letters that way, too.

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