Parents love to hear about their kids' lives. Kids, especially teens, don't always love to share.
How was your day? Fine. What did you do at school? Went to class. Who did you sit with at lunch? Friends.
St. Paul mom Stephanie Ross found a way around those frustrating exchanges with a dinnertime game she called High Low Glitter. When the family sat down to eat, everyone had to share the best part of their day, the worst part of their day and one surprising thing from the day -- the high, the low and the glitter.
It worked. So much so that she missed it when her twin girls, now 20, went off to college. Sure, there were Facebook status updates, but it wasn't the same.
Her solution? Make a High Low Glitter smartphone app and website.
"Now we continue to share our highs, lows and glitters whenever and wherever we are," Ross wrote on the High Low Glitter website.
But it isn't just another wide-open social network for oversharing. High Low Glitter users' "connections" are capped at seven other people. It doesn't matter if they are family or friends, but the number is limited. Think digital dinner table, not digital cocktail party.
"We really want it to be small," Ross said. "The more people you add, the story changes."
