Bud's Blog

I have a 13 year old son.  His name is Connor.  He is responsible for this new blog.  I have to say, he is the smartest 13 year old I know.  He solved many issues building this blog and launching it with GoDaddy.   I was confronted with an interesting issue of trust.  During the process of launching this Blog, we had an issue with GoDaddy.  I was convinced that Connor had made some error in his effort.  He insisted that it was on GoDaddy’s side.  I said, “GoDaddy has millions of users and is a multi-million dollar company, they are wrong and you are right?”  I was actually a bit of ass about it.  Connor said, yes.  In fact, he got pretty upset with me for not believing him.  And for being an ass.  I thought, he is good, but this problem has to be something he did or didn’t do correctly, he is only 13.  So together we called GoDaddy to troubleshoot the problem.  After 20 minutes, Tech Support came back on the line and said, “we are sorry for the issues you have been having, we had some problems on our end and we fixed them.”  “Sorry for the inconvenience.”  So I said to the tech agent, “you know what’s really interesting, my son, who is 13, said the issue was on your side and I didn’t believe him.”  The agent said, looks like you owe him and apology.”  So, while on speaker phone, I did just that.  I said, “Chief, that’s Connor’s nickname, you were right and I was wrong, man I’m sorry.”  You see, its not that I don’t trust my son.  In many way’s I do.   In that moment, however, I didn’t trust his capacity to act.  The real issue?  Accepting that my son has become more competent than me when dealing in Technology.  I’m 43, lots of experience, pretty successful and he is 13, going into the 8th grade.   My son Connor is awesome.  And did I mention he is a tech wizard?  He is.