It was in the article titled, "How Divorce Impacts The Military Man," that I discovered the website: www.imissthatkid.com. The DadsDivorce article is the first of what I hope will become a series of pieces looking at divorce in the military. It is true, however, that this is a subject spoken of most truly when it is spoken from the perspective of someone who really knows. So, we're looking for some perspective. One thing we have found is that there doesn't seem to be much coming to light about this subject. We like many out there, want to learn more.
There isn't really any explanation necessary for the existence of a site by the name of www.imissthatkid.com We went there and we found that it was certainly one in a series of online tools aimed at increasing the face-time a parent gets with a kid. We could go into how universally applicable the technology that facilitates such a literal "interface" is. But I was just struck with how the two sites mentioned in an earlier DadsDivorce article ( wizard101.com and etendi.com's BRIDGE) both provide a user-friendly way to interact with your child from long-distance.
Wizard101.com is a very imaginative role-play game where the goal is to fight ones way through challenges in order to finally "save a fractured world through reasoning and skill." Etendi BRIDGE offers a more straight-forward approach to interaction by allowing you to interact visually, creatively through assembling photo albums and interactive drawing capabilities. You can imagine how it would be a much more enhanced experience to be able to look into your child's eyes as you manipulate items on a "common" screen that you are truly sharing.
Imissthatkid.com offers a platform that seems to focus on simplicity of use. I found it interesting to look at these three options side by side, and recommend that you do too. Amazing how technology can enable us to tell our child "goodnight" every night.
Rick Ortiz is editor of www.dadsdivorce.com
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