Can We Talk...Really!

When your 3 year old runs to you and asks with puppy dogs if he can have your phone so he can call all his friends is the day you realize that your social life as an active parent is about to become interesting. Today, Jackson Jericho just wanted to talk. He grabbed the house phone and begin dialing numbers. After several tries at just randomly selecting numbers to dial, he then asked me for my contact list to find someone to call. Well, as many already know, my kids are not strangers to technology, but how my 3 year old knew that I keep numbers in a contact list is beyond me. However, I give him my mother's number and he calls her. They talk for about 5 minutes and then he was ready for the next number. He then holds a conversation consisting of exciting events of his day with his cousins and then decides he wants to call someone else. He was just in a talkative mood! How do you manage that, when you come home from a long day of work, where people are talking non-stop, pulling on you for information, asking you this and that, and you walk home and all your kid wants to do is talk some more? Well, let him talk! Freedom to express yourself as a child is a lost joy. Nowadays, kids are left to their devices as their mode of communication to where the art of having a face-to-face conversation is foreign. Texting and Facebook keeps us off the phone so much that we forget the voice of many of our family and friends. So to hear my son yammer was a pure delight especially as he proceeds to tell me that he can't talk much to London, the 16 month old because she can't talk very well. Enjoying them while I can.