Generation gap? :s

Its amazing to see how kids can behave sometimes. Especially in this tech-driven world... Hand them a laptop or a blackberry and whoa, there goes all the attention that ever really received from them. No meals on time, no chores either; you talk to them and man you don't even get a response! (even if you do, well you wish you were really the device they've been talking to all this while! ;))

There have been fights, real bad ones - who gets the laptop, for what times in the day, duration to be determined and defined (on paper), etc. Well these certainly ARE critical decisions! Amidst all this, there is this one person who manages to stay away. How....one may wonder. Well......thats because....he's got his own, individual, non- shareable Blackberry!!! And so he has the sole rights to play the superrrrr duperrr 'Brick Breaker'!!!! No third eyes there....... at least not for now :DDD

Well before you even start thinking (if you already haven't been) on why I'm ranting on like one complaining middle-aged, haggard, mother-of-many-brats woman.....lets just spell it out straight. The primary subjects involved in this phenomenon are non other than.......... our PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes yes.....they've caught on to this Tech Wave finally .....but they've caught it bad! While one's been falling deep in love with his Blackberry (not so much for the functionalities though), the other's been caught by, well the ever so popular...Facebook! Again, do NOT mistake that for the very prevalent 'social networking' wave that we're all a part of. Some noble soul, somewhere, thought of introducing the very very harmless Scrabble, online. And that is where it all started.....well still going strong!

The current status therefore is: My sister and I are really the old n wise, mature, thinking people around, trying hard to get these 'little ones' off the addiction. There are times too, when our role really changes to being the IT engineers (at your service 24X7 Sir/ Madam), who are to know the reasons, problems and the solutions every time our dear MTNL internet connection decides to take a break (much needed I'd say)! So here are a few snippets, just so you know what we're talking about:

• "Mamma, (while still trying to catch up on our sleep) ...its 3AM! Please so jao. Suba jaldi uthna hai"
• "Zaada kheloge to aankhein kharab ho jaengi"
• "Khana banayein?"
• At 2AM one day, when Mum surprising decided to sleep early... " Papa, brick breaker ka volume kam kar do, mamma so re hain." One minute later....... He's sitting in the same position, playing the same game, with the same volume on, but only in the room at the other end of the house!!!!!

We're a little lost here now. Parenting your parents was not really a lesson we were prepared to take up....! Not a very pleasant experience I say......!

What to do? : /