Gentlemen,
I only have one child, my daughter is deaf, deaf kids had texting machines way before they were ever popular, no way to keep a deaf person especially a girl off of a machine, that they can actually communicate with, lost her long ago to the electronics and the deaf culture. My daughter lost all interest in trains, and I know how you feel about the changing culture, I have been living it for a long long time.
PCRR/Dave