Texts 2 Teens: Sending the advice and wisdom that they desperately need

By Roger Smith

Have you ever tried to give sincere, valuable, and well meaning advice to a teenager? If so, then you know that they do not have the time or the temperament to listen to a word that you have to say. But everything that comes via their cell phone has a direct and immediate connection to their brain. This book contains the wisdom of world leaders,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Modelbenders LLC
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781938590221

Roger Smith

Roger Smith is Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at Lancaster University, England. He is the author of Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials (Edinburgh, 1982) and co-editor (with Brian Wynne) of Expert Evidence: Interpreting Science in the Law (Routledge, 1989).

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Text Messaging

The first text message was sent from Neil Papworth to Richard Jarvis in December 1992. Neil used his computer and the Vodaphone network to send Richard the message Merry Christmas. They started a small snowball of change rolling down a very long hill of electronic communication. It took nearly eight years to become a big success. By 2000, mobile phone owners were sending 17 billion messages per year. In 2001 it was up to 250 billion. By 2004 it was at 500 billion—or nearly 100 messages for every person on the planet.

With so many messages being typed, sent, and read, it is no wonder that your children do not have time to listen to all of the information that you and other adults have to share with them. They are being bombarded with an ocean of what up? and responding with nuthin you?

With all of these empty digits flying around the planet, there must be a way to inject some real wisdom and knowledge into the stream. There is certainly enough network capacity to carry as much knowledge and wisdom as you are willing to send.

Texting Wisdom

This book contains over 150 short words of wisdom and advice that you really wish you could get your kids to listen to. But since they won’t listen when you talk, maybe you can catch them off guard with a text message. Maybe they will accidently pay a little attention to what you have to say if you inject it into the stream of messages that go directly to their brains.

The messages in this book were distilled from world leaders, successful professionals, and experienced parents. They are a good set go get started communicating with your distracted teenagers. Who knows, they may even pass them on to their friends. That would be an epidemic of good ideas in the global data stream. You could be responsible to spreading little seeds of wisdom and good character to dozens, hundreds, or thousands of young minds.

Once you get started with the ideas here, begin to create your own and just keep sending them. If the cell phone networks can carry billions of what up? messages every year,