Hey. That's your job.

Thinking, thinking.  Always thinking. 
1.  During the last general conference, I finally figured out that the internet is not going away.  I still think it's got beautiful magical and mysterious properties that I will never understand-- kind of like a unicorn. 
Elder Quentin Cook spoke about Family History and the technology that we have:  "Family history technology has also advanced dramatically. President Howard W. Hunter declared in November 1994: “We have begun using information technology to hasten the sacred work of providing ordinances for the deceased. The role of technology … has been accelerated by the Lord himself. … However, we stand only on the threshold of what we can do with these tools.”²²"  https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/roots-and-branches?lang=eng
It dawned on me that my fears of the internet going down in some apocalyptic event are silly.  While I use the internet for such profound things as blogging, social networking, and recipe mining, the real purpose is the hastening of building up the kingdom of God.  It has helped my desire to get active in family history.  I'm kind of feeling antsy about it.

2.  We watched Elder Ballard's CES fireside this past Sunday.  It was wonderful!  One of the things he talked about was how technology is being used and is useful to members of the church.  He also talked about when and where it is appropriate.  https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/watch/ces-devotionals/2014/05?lang=eng
I had previously been in the anti scriptures on the phones in Primary camp.  It is disconcerting as a teacher and leader to think your kids are using their phones as scriptures, but then hearing them giggle and realize that they are playing a game.  Elder Ballard made it clear that scriptures on phones are not the problem. 
As much as the parental generation has to figure out how to protect their children from pornography and all of the other pitfalls of the online world, they have to teach their children how and when being online is appropriate.  Just because a child is "old enough" to have a phone or a device, it definitely doesn't mean they are smart enough.  I fall into that category of people that grew up on the cusp of the computer age and has yet to be fully incorporated, though I'm gradually catching up.  So many things don't even occur to me to teach my kids, because I've never dealt with it.  But it is my job and I'd better take care of it.
Which brings me to
3.  I was grousing to Dan that in Primary, the kids only learn and know the songs that are in the program for that year.  Just like in school, there is only so much time for the learning and we have a production that needs to reflect what we've learned.  The kids don't know Mother's Day songs, they don't know Father's day songs.  They don't know quiet and reverence songs.  It bugs me that the old standards like "Give Said the Little Stream" are getting lost.
Then, this morning I realized that "Hey!  You always tell people that they don't have to wait for a program (church, school, play groups) to plan and teach what you want taught.  This is your job!  If you want your kids to learn these songs that there isn't enough time to teach during music time, you have to teach them!"  I am sufficiently chastised and will get on that.