Although mine are a bit older (although my youngest is still young!), I text often  enough to annoy everyone.  This isn’t my fault, though.  It’s more of a genetic thing, because my mother was texting before I was, so it was pretty much inevitable.

However, I was with a few of my ladies who lunch the other day, and one of them asked about texting.  And twitter.  She didn’t know much about either one.  Since I’m well acquainted with both, they all think I’m nuts, naturally.

Still, it got me thinking.  These women have kids.  With phones!  And without getting into the myriad issues that brings up, let’s just say that as parents I think we have a responsibility to know what the heck our kids are saying on their phones.  And I don’t mean when they’re speaking.

That said, I found this handy reference for the Top 50 Most Popular Text Terms, by Erin Jansen.  These are 50 of the most popular, and therefore fairly tame.  If you want to know more–including lots of sexual references–pop on over and check out the site.  There are several other lists that you may find, well, revealing.

Afterwards, let’s all go check our kids’ phones.