Want to make a difference in your kid's life? Try the Chinese granny technique!

In this day and age, my kid measures up to any other kid in his school: he has access to every bit of technology before I even know how to use it, you name it: computer, Ipad, Android phone, digital notebook... and here comes the toughest for me: at will TV, 3D TV (no, we don't have one!), sound surround, XBox, Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP, etc.

With all that equipment, force is to realize that kids still manage to do exactly the same thing we did when we were kids, and remote controls had not even been invented yet, (let alone day TV, ha-ha!), they get bored, don't know what to do, don't like to write to grand-parents, disagree on what to play and the like... sounds familiar?

Yes, indeed, there is no need to be worried that computers will kill the good old fashioned card hand-writing, because kids don't like emailing more than we liked to write, and they still watch the same Scoobi-Doo with 150 channels to chose from as we did right before heading back to school after lunch.
So, don't let the appearances fool you! Kids might look like they don't care and we bore them to death with our supposed to be cultural-familial-lesson, but they do take notice all the same. They like the old-style ball kicking game and shooting dummies in the back yard, kids are kids, technology or not, when they hit the fields, there is no telling whether they are 21st century prodigies or not.

So, is there hope on the Web for this new generation of lazy Toms and Harrys out there (I actually have a friend called Tom and one called Harry, no pun intended, guys!)? Of course there is!
I am working on a website for kids called "Life's 2 short." Life's too short for what? you might ask. Well, too short for just about anything that takes more than fifteen minutes. Homework, for one, and all kind of adult advise: on girls and boys, friends and foes, etc.
And what about recollections of past stories which parents tell whether there is a need or not? Kids actually love those, it helps them figure out what is going on at the present, by relying on Mum or Dad's old adventures. But who has time for this? Definitely not a pre-teen, who is running after time like a dog chasing a Frisbee. "Wait!" and "Later!" are their joker words for "Leave me alone, but keep talking." You'd better believe it, kids want to hear it, but while they're putting on their shoes or brushing their teeth, so that they won't "waste time," precious minutes of their "à la Tom Sawyer" day.

This is what the web can do for them: give their parents some tools to keep feeding these lessons to them while they are on the go. Have you ever witnessed a Chinese granny feeding her toddler grand-child? The kid is on the move and she is on the move after him, chopsticks balancing the chicken strips and Bai Cai in the one hand, and the bowl of Bai Fan in the other. Man, these people are skilled! This is what we parents must become! So, grab your chopsticks and chase after that kid, chance are you might get some of the chicken strip-knowledge into him before he's out of sight.

In this day and age, my kid measures up to any other kid in his school, and in the world, challenge is: do I?