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Adventures in SF Parenting: Kids and their YouTubez

Recently, I realized that I am no longer relevant.  This was not something that I thought would happen to me at the tender age of 35, but I don’t really get a say in the matter.  It is also possible that I wouldn’t have realized this for another decade had I not had children at a very young age.  Or perhaps if I were less liberal with my computer usage policies in our home.  Regardless, the epiphany occurred, and it was mind blowing. A little background data for those of you who haven’t listened to The Skiffy and Fanty Show podcast –  I am the occasionally proud, more commonly flabbergasted, parent of two girls.  My daughters are 11 and 12 years of age, and they are both in 7th grade at a local public Junior High School.  You’ll learn more about that at some point in these “Adventures in SF Parenting” posts.  Suffice it to say, if you bothered to do the math, I had my kids when I was fairly young. I was 22 when my older daughter, Mo, was born, my husband was only 18.  That probably gave us an entirely different viewpoint on parenting than