Parental Nagging Evolves Electronically
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So we know all parents nag their kids and I am no exception. Nagging your kids seems to have evolved and we don't just do it by mouth anymore. Texting your kids to nag them seems to be very common these days 
I've done it, quite a bit. Question is, does it work better than them hearing your voice or is it a way for them to ignore you? I like nag texting for several reasons, I don't have to listen to the "mooommmmm stop nagging me" or "mommmmm i'll do it laaaaaterrrr". I usually get a clear response like "yes i've read those 4 chapters" or "yes i've finished my homework", and that works for me 
Sometimes if I've told my son to take a shower for example, and I hear "yeah in a minute mom" and 15 mins later he's still not in the shower, i'm likely to text him to tell him the same thing. He'll jump when he knows he has a text and while he maybe slightly disappointed when he realizes its a nag text from good ole' Mom it usually works. I feel like it gets across the importance of what you're saying as opposed to him just hearing your voice which after a while just sounds like Charlie Brown, wa wa wa wa wa wa wa!!!
"Some digitally inspired nagging is an evolution of necessity, parents say, because many teens do not answer phone calls from Mom or Dad, especially in the company of friends. Text allows nagging remotely -- and discreetly".
So do you text nag your kids? or do you do it the old fashioned way? Does it work for you? What kinds of things do you nag text about? Do you get a positive/negative response? or do you sometimes get ignored 
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I've never nag texted but I have nagged IM the kids manyyyyyyyyy times. It works wonders I fine. Plus sometimes they can talk to you more on a IM then face to face I find. Some subjects are less embarrassing because you don't have to look the person in the eyes. I find my kids sometimes will ask some pretty interesting things over a IM that they would never do if we were in the same room. Its like its less personal over the computer I think.
yeah i totally agree, they will ask more questions than if you were face to face, although i have to laugh, my son said something to me the other morning that made me 
.....so typical though for a male 
Oh one of my kids (wont say which one) really asked me all about the human body and sex all over the IM one night. We spent like 2 hours chatting. I asked him if he wanted to come out and chat and he was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO its much better we do it here so I was ok with it. Hey I'm just glad we chatted and he felt like it was ok to ask me questions that way.
See its good to hear things like that, its pretty funny cos you're in the next room but for some reason they think you're miles away.....yayyyy for technology..... i think if it helps them be open then its great....my son for some reason has NO problem in coming right out and asking me questions directly to my face which leads to some 
moments for Mom... oh well im used to it by now......kinda, sorta...
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Well my kiddo's not old enough yet. BUT i will say that my mom recently got into texting...now she's like an addict
not quite but she texts quite a bit! it's funny because a year ago she didn't know how to do anything on her phone or email. 6 mo ago a text would take her literally 10 minutes to punch out "OK" and send it teeehheee, i love my mom. she and us kids communicate a lot like that now. moreso her with my younger bro. i think texting sometimes feels more comfortable than being an 18-yr-old boy sitting on the couch with your mom having a heart-to-heart. it's a little more detached or something? i'm not sure the word i'm thinking of. he tells her a lot more of what's going on in his life now that he can text her. perhaps your word missb, "discreet" was what i was thinking of.
Also my parents will text me while on a trip "can u plz put our newspaper in house while gone? thx" and things like that. I guess that could be considered "nagging" ;-P though i don't think of it like that anymore. just a favor. but i'm glad they text those favors because then i have it written down. i forget easily.
Anyway, ^not completely related, but not completely unrelated.^
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