Jay Paterno

I have images of all of my children getting on the school bus, or getting home and running to hug me. The smiles are what I will hold dear. My hope is that they retain the small things I do for them, that I smile often enough and laugh enough.

Once you load the chamber with your social media bullet and press send/post/tweet there is no calling it back. Ask yourself whether what you are putting out there is something you potentially want attributed to you for the rest of your life.

Apparently most parents were way tougher than today’s kids. We’re armed with vivid memories of waiting outside half an hour for the school bus that picked us up three miles from our house on days when the wind chill was 40 below.

As easily as Twitter can help get important, if abbreviated, 140 character messages out in real time, it also allows users to make major missteps in an instant. As Lincoln famously said, “It is better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.”