It's the end of summer sleepover at our house tonight. Three girls, three cell phones, one Ouija board, a rented movie, 3 bags of orange chicken, and a Nintendo Wii.
Back in the OLD days (the 70's) we would have had 1 thing from that list...the Ouija board. I think about how childhood has changed with the technology so readily available to our kids. The girls have had cell phones for about a year now. Brooklyn was first, then Callie (but she has to share with Carter), and this summer Olivia finally convinced her folks that a phone was a necessity of life. There is constant text messaging. Group texts going out telling kids to meet at the movie theatre in town, texting the boy your friend likes to see if he likes her too, and the text that most annoys me, the one that just says "Sup". (And to think in the pre-caller ID days we just dialed the princess phone, waited for the boy we liked to answer, and then hung up, dissolving into fits of giggles.)
I fondly recall playing with the Ouija board at sleepovers. Today I laugh at the notion that a piece of press board can answer life's questions. But Callie and her friends believe...and I cannot question their faith in each other. They have been friends since kindergarten, almost half of their young life. They will go through tough times together as they grow older, but for now they put their hopes in the answers the Ouija board gives.
So tonight I will sit with them in a dark room, no TV or video games or phones to distract us, and I will ask the Ouija board a question.
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