Remember that horror movie or commercial or after school special, or maybe it was the news where the voice said, “It’s eleven o’clock, do you know where your children are?” I can’t remember where I heard that because I was outside eating candy with strangers when they used to say it.

I think most people know where their children are today given the GPS, chips and tracking devices we have implanted behind their ears and in their electronic “toys”/devices.

The other day I was in the kitchen talking to Greg, probably about how batteries can erase your memory and turn into robots who steal your identity or how I could best explain to the girls what Pink means when she sings, “We’ve had a shhh day,” when I heard my voice talking about how a bill becomes a law  how Winners really offers a sound shopping experience, from the other room.

When I walked toward my own voice, I kept talking so I would know I wasn’t crazy or maybe it was confirming that I was crazier than ever.

Ellie was watching a video on her ipod of me earlier in the week and was giggling away to a conversation I didn’t remember having.

Wow. I was being recorded and had no idea. Thankfully I had washed my hair within 96 hours and was wearing at least one sock.

My voice coach however, she’s totally fired. I do not sound like that.

So then I had a conversation with a friend about an exchange she had with her nine year old. They were in a heated debate over things you argue about with a nine year old; why hasn’t Justin Bieber returned any of my calls, why did my Mom freak when she saw my batteries and bury them in the backyard?

After an angry battle nobody wanted to remember, my friend’s child held up her iphone and said, “I just recorded you.”

Oh dear, this is worse than my Winners, it’s a new store everyday speech (now available in SAP).

Has it really come to this?

Are we recording each other’s every word?

I think this was an interesting lesson for everyone involved.

As parents, if we think we’re being taped, does it make us more or less likely to say things we might later regret? Maybe it would act as a deterrent and force us to walk away before saying something we don’t want coming back to haunt us. But are we losing power when our kids can hold up a device that reminds us we are flawed?

How do we handle our children using our own words against us?