How good is your communication with your child?

Well, in another sign that SMS is really changing the way we communicate with each other, a survey in Britain has found out that are increasingly getting addicted to mobiles and communication gadgets and that those gadgets replace more traditional, other games - especially on a car trip. It was found, to further outline, that sing-song or story-telling are increasingly being replaced by children being involved in text messaging. Youngsters said that they prefer to listen to music through their mobile while 55% said that they spent the trip sending SMS to friends - what does this tell us?

Basically, they don't like to listen to the music their parents like to play on the radio or via tapes or CDs - what is normal. Who likes to listen to music from a different generation, when all that counts amongst your friends are the bands that are up-today now?

So basically, you replace Mick Jagger or Queen with Britney Spears or Beyonce. And to communicate to friends via SMS - nothing really wrong with that - there is something that is called generation gap.

While it is great to have parents and children talking to each other, having the same wavelength, parents also need to understand that kids develop new ways to communicate and develop. May be parents should communicate with their friends - oh stop - we communicate or text with our co-workers or still work on the project we left behind.

So may be this really is an issue of understanding each other better, finding common grounds and simply talk?