We all know the importance of monitoring our children on MySpace and other internet messaging.  I was watching my son last night chatting away to some friends and couldn’t understand a thing that he wrote. Everything was in code. So I decided to do some some decoding myself and found exactly what I was looking for at MSNBC.

They have a whole list of abbreviations that teens use while messaging. Like POS means "parent over shoulder", I just love that one. PIR is "parent in room"…. KOL is "kiss on lips"…TDTM is "talk dirty to me"

Every parent should have this list. I printed it and now I will know exactly what my son is talking about. He tells me that I’m old all of the time, but what he should know is that along with age comes wisdom.