A Few Easy Hints To Help Understand Their Lingo

"Mom, CGM!"

Of course it might not look like much, but in just three characters, your son or daughter is asking to be picked up. Crazy, right?

Not huge on texting? Unfamiliar with Blackberry Messenger? Do Skype and iChat make your head spin? If that's the case, it's probably because text lingo is sometimes difficult to decode. If you weren't brought up in the generation of i-phones and ICQ (and even if you were) it could be that all you need is a crash course in IM vernacular.

Here is a simple guide to some of the (mostly) vowel-free "words" that your kids are using:

LOL laughing out loud
LMAO laughing my a** off
ROFL (this one's a bit gratuitous, if you ask me) rolling on the floor laughing
OMG oh my G-d
LYLAS love you like a sister
MNC Mother Nature calls
PAW parents are watching
BBS be back soon
PCM please call me
LHU lets hook up
BCNU be seeing you
SETE smiling ear to ear
FYEO for your eyes only
GTG got to go
ATW all the way
EVBS (we did) everything but sex
ALMT almost there
ILY I love you
WNTT we need to talk
HNGY I'm hungry
CGM - come get me
BF boyfriend
GF girlfriend
BFF best friend forever
XBF ex boyfriend
XGF ex girlfriend

Billie Misha
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