From Focus on the Family: Longged On and Tuned Out book is featured on the back page of the FOF magazine this month. They list abbreviations that are used for text messaging. Some of these you as adults might be using, but some are those that kids use and that you would want to be aware. You might want to log into the website for Logged On and Tuned Out.

• l ol - laughing out loud
• brb - be right back
• btw - by the way
• sup - what's up
• idk - I don't know
• ltr or l8r - later
• otp - on the phone
• yw - you're welcome
• np - no problem
• jk - just kidding
• ttyl - talk to you later
• thx - thanks
• w/e - whatever
• lylas - love ya like a sister
• gtg - got to go
  
• rents - parents
• sys - see you soon
• zzz - tired, bored
• pos - parent over shoulder
• mos - mom over shoulder
• p911 - parent alert
• paw - parents are watching
• a/s/l - age, sex, location (often asked by predators)
• 420 - code for buying or smoking marijuana

Pay particular attention to the red ones.

The question is: r u tuned out? get logged on!

Thank you. The ones that worry me are the ones that are 10-12 letters long... What the heck is that? Can't figure out what they could possibly be, and of course, my daughter plays dumb (I think) and acts like she doesn't know either.

Why not check out the link for the book mentioned. There may be others that would help you

here's one for the moms:
NAK = Nursing at keyboard

hee hee I am often NAK which is why my typing/spelling is so bad sometimes

- that's me right now!