These are new times

It is clear that the world's most perfect teenager misses both school and his schoolmates. He would never admit it though.

His two best friends left when we got home from Portugal earlier this summer. One of them will come home on Monday.

When I was little, you barely got to say hello before the phone would be handed over to one of the siblings when the parents made an international call to a relative. The offspring and one of his friends are on the phone for hours via What's Up while simultaneously playing a little game together over the cell phone.