This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you don’t have or haven’t had teen children of your own, then apply the prompts to teenage relatives or friends, or perhaps to your own teen years. Or write about “contemporary teenagers”.
Teenagers love their gadgets. They walk around with earphones stuck in their ears (good excuse to not hear when you ask them to do a chore!) or their fingers busy with game controllers or texting. And when it comes to computers and the kinds of “gadgets” they use online like MSN or social networks…
Write about the gadgets your teenager owns, or even the way they use one particular gadget.
I had a slow cooker that was the rage when I first got it. It was a wedding present in the early 1980s. The idea was that you popped a selection of food ingredients into it and lo and behold when you came home from work your dinner was all ready and cooked. The trouble was it didn’t work – there was a good 10 hours between leaving for work and arriving home and that was too long for most of the programs. And who wants a meal that has been cooking on a very low heat for ten hours anyway? The slow cooker – I really should unearth it from that cupboard and just throw it away!
I have just acquired a HTC TyTN II PDA/smartphone, and I love the idea of having all in one neat package a phone directory and phone, camera, calendar (synchronised with my laptop) and the ability to take notes electronically. For learning such devices have even more possibilities. Indeed, it was a seminar on the learning possibilities that convinced me I NEEDED one of these gadgets.
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