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Article: Keeping connected through Internet cafes.(The Seattle Times)
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- April 14, 2003
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Byline: Kristin Jackson
For parents, a vacation lets them escape from the wired world of e-mail, pagers and phones.
But that's not the way some children, especially teens, want to go. They crave regular fixes of e-mail and instant messaging. And if your family owns a laptop, the kids may beg to take it on vacation.
Resist their pleas. Having a laptop sitting in your hotel room makes it too easy for kids, and parents, to get sucked back into e-mail and mindless computer games.
If you need more reasons for leaving the computer at home, consider these: Laptops can be a pain to lug around airports; they're a target for thieves; and ...