Health education via text

"Healthy baby campaign uses texts to reach mothers"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_hi_te/us_pregnancy_campaign_text_messages

Text BABY to 511411 to receive timely updates and tips regarding your forthcoming and newborn baby. What does this say about the state of American parenting when (1) we can operate our cell phones better than we can care for our children? (2) we no longer have the strong intergenerational familial relationships that have served for millennia as the primary source of information and assistance in child raising? (3) we no longer have personal relationships with our health care providers, leaving us instead to turn to an anonymous, national database for obstetrical and pediatric advice?

Texting in the news

Here are links to two very recent (yesterday and today) articles on texting from the Tulsa World:

"Strong messages: Some say teen texting a threat" (1/20)
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=439&articleid=20100120_18_A1_Areate75490&archive=yes

Henry signs texting while driving ban on Oklahoma state employees (1/21)
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20100121_12_0_OLHMIY897624&archive=yes